Abolitionism In The Civil War

Abolitionism is a familiar expression that defines the journey that ended slavery and segregation between whites and African Americans beginning as early as the 1820s. The Abolitionist where very vocal about their opinions and spoke openly on freedom and agreed “all men were created equal”. In response, slave owners contradicted these opinions and rebelled. With this conflict came the American Civil War.
In result of there being so many abolitionist, the first American abolition society was founded. This society was founded by Benjamin Rush and on April, 4 1775 in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Most of the men who attended the 4 meetings this society held, where Quakers. Another popular abolition society was the American Anti-Slavery Society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. The society began in 1833 and by 1838, there were 250,000 members. Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown where freed slaves that also were key people in the movement.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the most important out of all three acts, created the Northwest Territory as the first organized region of the new coming United States, out of the areas close to the Great Lakes, and to the north and west of the Ohio river. This legislation also predetermined to ban slavery in the entire Northwest Territory. The new states that were to be included were to have equal status as the original 13 states. Since slavery was banned, the Ohio River was considered as the “free and slave” territory. Although, slave owners from other places where allowed to recover there slaves if they had ran away to northwest