Every movement, civil or otherwise, needs a symbol. ... For the abolitionist movement, John Brown was that symbol. ... The fact that a white man was willing to sacrifice his own life for the rights of millions of African Americans motivated people within the movement to work harder than ever before. ... He represents many of the ideas dictated by Thoreau in his essay on "Civil Disobedience," as he took any measures necessary to defy what he saw as an unjust law. ... In the same way that they sought to secure their rights from the British, John Brown sought to secure the rights of Afr...

• Word Count: 1279
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He fought hard to pass amendments that would help bring equality to black civil rights and strongly participated in woman's rights. Frederick Douglass was a key figure in the abolitionist movement and equality of human rights. ... Fredrick could then continue to fight for black freedom and civil rights. ... After the civil war Douglass became the main voice of the African American race and worked arduously to gain proper black civil rights. ... Frederick Douglass was a key figure in the abolitionist movement and helped gain black civil rights. ...

• Word Count: 1350
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was passed by Congress in January and ratified by the states in December 1865, only several months after the close of the American Civil War. ... In December of 1865, just months after the close the American Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed and forbid the owning of slaves in all parts of the United States, fulfilling Lincoln's dream of equality for African Americans. ... This was the beginning of the African American Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was just one of many long-range effects of President Lincoln's Ema...

• Word Count: 622
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While some northerners had felt that slavery was inhumane, after Uncle Tom's Cabin was published it helped to fuel the growing movement of abolitionists in the north, as well as further the already large gap in the different sections of the country. ... The south also felt that the north was violating the rights of the southern states, they said that the constitution guaranteed the south the right to hold slaves as they saw fit. Uncle Tom's Cabin was an event that lead to the start of he American civil war, because it sparked the abolitionists movement in the north. ...

• Word Count: 550
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As well as being credited with winning the most important war in America's history, he is also considered to have abolished the institution of slavery and set in motion the Civil Rights movement. ... The practical maintenance of slavery was requiring an expansion of federal power and Southern "slave states", while advocating states rights, demanded federal intervention in support of slavery. ... Their reasoning was based upon the doctrine of states' rights, which placed ultimate sovereignty with them. ... However it took a bloody civil war that engulfed the nation as Lincoln vowed...

• Word Count: 1215
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lincoln and Douglas shows how they deal with race indicates two different directions regarding civil and political rights for blacks in Illinois, where Douglas will use race not only to affirm existing white supremacy but to reinforce it. ... He believed that federal constitution was being reinterpreted to establish a race-based, not a natural-rights-based, system of government that would extend slavery into every territory and state of the American union. ... Therefore, they sought to secure their own independence from England, and in this process, establish the institutions of civil governme...

• Word Count: 2032
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abraham Lincoln did many things as president such as help in the Civil War, deliver many important speeches and letters to try and unite the Union, but he is most importantly remembered as the president who freed the slaves. ... But the Confederates were not happy because they believed that Abraham Lincoln was taking away their Constitutional Rights and they knew that they needed slaves in order to help their economy and crops flourish. The South disliked Lincoln and wanted to succeeded from the Union because of his decisions thus causing the Civil War.  ... Lincoln was not even alive when th...

• Word Count: 1118
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more accurate.2 Syncretism occurred with the combining of African tradition and Christian principles to create an African-American spirituality specific to its people. ... Levine's study, Black Culture and Black Consciousness, suggests there was a "widespread conversion of slaves to Christianity by ...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Upon his escape from slavery at age 20, he adopted the surname of Frederick Douglass and quickly became involved in the campaign against slavery known as the abolitionist movement. ... Douglass's devotion to abolitionism led him to confer with Abraham Lincoln during the civil war and after the war he fought for the rights of women and African-Americans alike. ...

• Word Count: 2277
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate