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What was Fredrick Douglas role in the effort to abolish slavery?
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What reform effort suffered a temporary political defeat through the gag rule?
The abolitionist movement suffered a temporary political defeat through the gag rule. This was an effort to eliminate slavery by making it illegal for any US citizen to own a slave.
Was the abolition of slavery a US Supreme Court decision?
No. Slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in a joint effort between Congress and the states that ratified the amendment. A constitutional amendment is more powerful than a US Supreme Court decision, because it is not subject to change by the Supreme Court.
What was one result of president wilsons stroke?
He had To stop his effort to win support for the league of nations
What ways did self-serving individuals hurt the Reconstruction effort?
In what ways did self-serving individuals hurt the Reconstruction effort?
The effort to control or influence the conduct of goverment is called?
Politics is the effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of government. The federal system is a government that divides the powers of government between the national government and state of provincial governments.
Who was escaped slave who frequently gave speeches about his experience as a slave in an effort to have slavery abolished?
Fredrick Douglas was a noted author, orator, and newspaper publisher who related stories from his own life to further the cause of Abolition.
Who wrote petitions to the British Parliament and launched a sugar boycott in their effort to abolish slavery?
Quakers
After the Revolution did Americans made a strong effort to abolish slavery in both the North and South?
Only in the North
What was Harriet Tubman's role in the effort to abolish slavery?
she freed hundreds of slaves in the underground railroad and she participated in the civil war on the side of the union.
Can you Give you a sentence using the word abolitionist?
(Although abolition usually means the removal of something, it is most often used in connection with the removal of slavery, especially in the US.) "The abolition of slavery started in the late 1700s." "The union successfully pressed for the abolition of mandatory overtime."
Which escaped slave frequently gave speeches about his experience as a slave in an effort to have slavery abolished?
Fredrick Frederick Augustus Washington Douglass (1818-1895). He was an African-American social reformer, writer, abolitionist orator and statesman..
How did the south view the expansion west?
With great misgivings, as they saw the expansion to the West as an effort by the northern States to create new abolitionist States there that would finally together with the North outnumber them and force them to abolish slavery.
Why did the war effort persuade some states to abolish slavery?
Although Abraham Lincoln tried to use persuasive methods, including cash compensation, to encourage the Border States to abolish slavery during the Civil War, none would agree to do this. As a result, Lincoln composed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation after giving slave holding states a time limit on when they could willingly comply without force.
Did slaves destroy slavery or did white destroy slavery?
We can give a certain amount of credit to both of these groups. The white government of the US amended the constitution, after the Civil War, in order to abolish slavery, but it is also true that large numbers of slaves managed to escape during the Civil War and voluntarily assisted the war effort of the Union, thereby helping to win the war.
After the Kansas Nebraska act what party did antislavery democrats from?
Free Soil Party?
What issue did Stephen a Douglas believe had a constitutional basis for its effort?
Stephen A. Douglas believed in popular sovereignty.
Why did the united nations launch an effort to remember the history of slavery?
The abolition of slavery was in 1865
