• Outline the development of various antislavery organizations, including the AASS, women’s groups, and black organizations. Include their origins, tactics, beliefs, and effects.
• Describe how whites reacted to the growing abolitionist movement in the North and the South.
• Describe how territorial expansion affected the controversy over slavery.
• Describe the role of black institutions, specifically the church and newspapers, in the abolitionist movement.
• Reflect on why the American Anti-Slavery Society split. What were the characteristics of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (AFASS) and the Liberty Party?
• Discuss the changes in tactics among different groups in the abolitionist movement, both among whites and blacks.

TOPICS FOR LECTURES/LONG ESSAYS OR PAPERS/CLASS DISCUSSIONS

• Describe how the AASS lived up to its stated ideals. How did it incorporate blacks and women?
• Describe the overall effects of the abolitionist movement. What did it lead to?
• Discuss the film Amistad. How is it a realistic portrayal of the historical events? How is it not realistic? What is the role of film in a history class? Why do you think Steven Spielberg made the film?
• Discuss the myths and realities of the underground railroad.
• Describe how the abolitionist movement lead to the women’s movement, What types of conditions were women under in mid-nineteenth century America, and how did some come to recognize their inequality and oppression? Why was the women’s movement not successful at the same time as the abolitionist movement?
• Discuss Frederick Douglass’s views of race and how he thought black life could be improved.
• Compare how the blacks’ view of abolitionism differed from the whites’ view? How did the tactics and solutions of the two groups differ?