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What percentage of Americans were ardent abolitionists prior to the Civil War?
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five percent
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True or false in northern states dissenters called abolitionists spoke out against the war in the civil war?
true
How did abolitionists influence lincolns decision to issue the emancipation proclamation?
Abolitionists pressured Lincoln to end the slavery after the start of the Civil War in 1861. These pressures also affected Lincoln to declare the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
What did African Americans control after the US Civil War?
CHURCHES !! (31409)
Where did more Americans live by the time the civil war began?
Americans lived
Those who opposed slavery were referred to as?
The group of people during the Civil War that were opposed to slavery were referred to as abolitionists. One of the most famous abolitionists was Benjamin Franklin, who was a leading member of the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery, one of the first formal organizations for abolition in the United States.
What did the abolinist'want?
Abolitionists wanted enslaved African Americans to be freed from slavery, and to then enjoy the same civil rights as any other American.
After the civil war ended what major issue did Fredrick Douglass and other abolitionists begin working towards?
gaining the right for African Americans to vote
What is a civil War term beginning with the letter a?
Abolitionists
Were abolitionists Americans that wanted to get rid of the tariff?
Abolitionists, were people who wanted to end slavery in western Europe and the Americas. Its origins were in the UK and spread to the USA and Canada. The Northern states of the US were in favour of abolishing slavery the Southern states were not. This led to the American Civil War.
Abolitionists in the pre-Civil War. Were most likely to support the?
Republicans
What was the general opinion of African Americans prior to the Civil War?
Although there were thousands of documented cases to the contrary (mainly in the northern states and among a few hundred Southern Abolitionists), they were thought as property.
What did Lincoln hope to do about voting after a civil war?
Limit voting to a small portion of African Americans - APEX
What has the author R J M Blackett written?
R. J. M. Blackett has written: 'Thomas Morris Chester, Black Civil War Correspondent' 'Beating against the barriers' -- subject(s): Abolitionists, Addresses, essays, lectures, African American abolitionists, African Americans, Biography
Why did northern factory workers oppose the abolitionists before the US Civil War?
Freed African Americans would take some of their jobs, the workers were socially higher than slaves, and disruption of the Union.
Abolitionists in the pre-civil war period were most likely to support the?
Republicans
Who would be a friend to the slaves during the US Civil War?
Other slaves or abolitionists. ;)
Who was a pre-Civil War abolitionist?
John Brown, Harriet Tubman and Fredrick Douglass were all pre-Civil War abolitionists
