Problem
A. How were the transcendentalists among the first Americans to anticipate the environmental movement of the 20th century?
B. What were the problems facing public education? What types of institutions were created to deal with them?
C. What were the reasons that efforts at colonization ultimately failed?
D. How did William Lloyd Garrison change the tone of the anti-slavery movement? What impact was this change likely to have on the relationship between the different sections of the country?
E. Describe some of the characteristics of life for the free Black population of the north. Why were they so committed to abolition?
F. Discuss the impact of Fredrick Douglass on the abolition movement. Why was he such an important symbol for the cause of abolition?
G. What reasons did some northerners have for opposing the abolition movement? What dangers did this opposition pose to abolitionists?
H. Discuss some of the international aspects of anti-slavery sentiments.
I. What actions on the part of William Lloyd Garrison led to conflict within the abolition movement?
J. Describe some of the actions and strategies employed to weaken the institution of slavery.
K. Discuss the impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin.