This document summarizes the key people and events in the abolitionist movement in the United States. It mentions early abolitionists like Thomas Clarkson, Granville Sharp, and William Wilberforce. It also discusses the formation of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. Later abolitionists mentioned include Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, and Gerrit Smith. The document notes how abolitionists used fierce language and images to raise awareness and make ending slavery a priority for white Americans. It discusses the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and how Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin shocked the North and intens

2.  Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp
 William Wilberforce
 Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807

3.  Frederick Douglass
 William Lloyd Garrison
 Sojourner Truth (Olive Gilbert)
 Gerrit Smith
 William Seward

4.  Use of radical and fierce language
 Pictures were used to make people feel like it
was their responsibility to help end slavery
 Abolitionist newspapers

5.  Fugitive Slave Act in 1850
 Harriet Beecher Stowe
 Evoked horror in the North
 Brought the issue into the homes of white
Americans

6.  The abolitionist movement fueled the split
between the North and the South
 Abolitionists forced slavery to the forefront of
politics, eventually leading to the outbreak of
the civil war

7.  http://uq.edu.au/ATSIS/birranews/archive/images/stowe.jpg
 http://www.soldierstudies.org/images/webquest/civil%20war%
20soldiers.jpg
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/images/4fred16s.jpg
 http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/abolitionists.htm
 http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1327854/slavery_and
_the_rise_of_abolitionism.html
 http://www.fold3.com/page/1479_abolitionism_in_america/