USA HISTORY

SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861

BLOODY KANSAS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
People who belonged to a movement to end slavery.
A
Abolitionists
B
Border ruffians
C
Jayhawkers
D
Bushwackers
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -John Brown: Brown was a radical abolitionist who organized various raids and uprisings, including an infamous raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Harriet Tubman: Tubman was a fugitive enslaved person and abolitionist who was known for helping escaped enslaved people reach the North via the Underground Railroad network.

Detailed explanation-2: -Abolitionism, meanwhile, was in itself a heterogeneous movement. At one end of its spectrum was William Lloyd Garrison, an “immediatist, ” the founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1833–70), who denounced not only slavery but also the Constitution of the United States for tolerating the evil.

Detailed explanation-3: -In December 19833, the three most active antislavery organizations, the Philadelphia Quakers, the New England Garrisonians, and the New York Reformers, met with freed blacks to form an organization called the America Anti-Slavery Society. Abolitionists initially focused their efforts on church members and clergymen.

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