https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob American History I en-us 2017-03-07 15:13:50 UTC 2023-05-22 10:25:51 UTC hello@padlet.com vgstallions https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob/wish/158381610 Harriet Tubman was a slave who escaped to freedom but came back to lead other slaves to safety. In 1850, with the passage of the fugitive slave law, this task became more difficult. She rerouted the underground railroad to Canada. She is seen as a symbol of resistance to oppression.]]> 2017-03-07 15:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob/wish/158381610 vgstallions https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob/wish/158853783 Frederick Douglass was a black reformer, author, and orator. He wrote two famous books, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and My Bondage and my Freedom. He showed people that African Americans could be intelligent and were not inferior to whites.]]> 2017-03-09 02:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob/wish/158853783 vgstallions https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob/wish/158856366 Manifest destiny was the belief that the settlement of North America by whites was necessary, justified, and inevitable. They believed that Americans had a duty to civilize the west. Manifest Destiny was the idea behind the territorial expansion that made the U.S. the way it is today.]]> 2017-03-09 02:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob/wish/158856366 vgstallions https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob/wish/158858169 The Liberator was an abolitionist newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison. It advocated for the immediate emancipation of all slaves. It grew famous across the nation for its outspoken status and angered many people.]]> 2017-03-09 03:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob/wish/158858169 vgstallions https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob/wish/158996006 Uncle Tom's Cabin was an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was the bestselling novel of the nineteenth century. It showed it's slave characters as people and got readers to empathize with them. It personalized what had before been only political and economic arguments and emphasized the impact slavery had on families. It was controversial when it was published.

]]> 2017-03-09 15:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob/wish/158996006 vgstallions https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob/wish/159004936 Nat Turner's rebellion was the largest slave rebellion in the United States. Nat Turner organized a rebellion that killed 55 white people. This reinforced the idea that blacks were savages and should not be freed. Slave codes were also tightened significantl]]> 2017-03-09 15:28:18 UTC https://padlet.com/vgstallions/bennolb4trob/wish/159004936