Answer: A. He wants to convince his audience that it is wrong to celebrate independence while denying freedom to slaves.

Douglass’s goals were to “abolish slavery in all its forms and aspects, promote the moral and intellectual improvement of the COLORED PEOPLE, and hasten the day of FREEDOM to the Three Millions of our enslaved fellow countrymen.” How else did Douglass promote freedom?

Why does Douglass feel hopeful about America’s future? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer. He takes hope from the fact that the country is young, only seventy-six years old. Its destiny and character are not fixed.

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He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War. After that conflict and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, he continued to push for equality and human rights until his death in 1895.

Frederick Douglass has been called the father of the civil rights movement. He rose through determination, brilliance, and eloquence to shape the American nation. Committed to freedom, Douglass dedicated his life to achieving justice for all Americans, in particular African-Americans, women, and minority groups.

Douglass exemplified a commitment to a version of freedom that recognized citizenship, promoted equal justice, and respected voting rights. Likewise, he also supported equal rights for immigrants, universal public education, and the end of capital punishment.

Douglass regarded the Civil War as the fight to end slavery, but like many free blacks he urged President Lincoln to emancipate the slaves as a means of insuring that slavery would never again exist in the United States.

Douglass refused to join Brown’s Harpers Ferry raid Whether it was due to “my discretion or my cowardice,” Douglass wrote, he declined to join what became the ill-fated Harpers Ferry raid on October 16, 1859 – nearly every member of the inciting party was either captured or killed, and Brown was hanged on December 2.

Tubman met John Brown in 1858, and helped him plan and recruit supporters for his 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy.

Frederick Douglass went on to become one of the most famous men in the country, an abolitionist, a powerful orator, an advocate for women’s rights, a brilliant strategist, a newspaper owner, a friend to John Brown and Harriet Tubman.

By 1860, Douglass was well known for his efforts to end slavery and his skill at public speaking. During the Civil War, Douglass was a consultant to President Abraham Lincoln and helped convince him that slaves should serve in the Union forces and that the abolition of slavery should be a goal of the war.

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There were many similarities between Lincoln and Douglass. They grew up in surroundings where violence was common, forcing each one to become good with his fists, although neither was the type to go looking for a fight. Both were physically imposing and stood 6 feet tall by the time they were in their early teens.

Douglass later said that he was not entirely satisfied with Lincoln’s views, but was so well satisfied with Lincoln the man that he would resume recruiting. A personal relationship was born between the two men during that meeting, and it would continue until Lincoln’s death.

What characteristics of the United States does Douglass believe led to the war with Mexico? He believes it is the result of “pride and ambition” of the United States. He goes on to say “we have given ourselves up to the blind spirit of mad ambition.”

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In 1847, Douglass founded and assumed the editorship of The North Star, an anti-slavery newspaper. With the outbreak of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass believed strongly in emancipation as a war aim, and that it was critically important for blacks to be allowed entry into the armed forces in the fight to end slavery.

The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).