The nation suddenly became alert, the nation suddenly had an opinion and suddenly became worried. The abolitionist movement had a great impact on the nation. The abolitionist movement captured the nation's attention while the antislavery movement did not. The anti-slavery movement and the abolitionist movement have the same idea but each pursues a different goal. There were many staunch supporters of abolitionism, being severe and uncompromising enemies of slavery. The anti-abolitionism, which nearly cost William Lloyd Garrison his life, also persuaded some members of the movement that they needed a stronger approach to make their case. Anti-slavery and abolitionism were not always the same thing. Anti-slavery people really cared about keeping slavery out of their territory and keeping it a white country. From here the idea of ​​defending free soil was born. William Lloyd Garrison called them white manism. The ACS organized by white Virginians who sought to compromise a gradual freeing of slaves by raising money through private charities or funds appropriated by state legislatures for slave masters. The American Colonization Society would then export the slaves out of the country and help them find a new society on their own somewhere else. The ACS began to die out, private or public funding was not enough to pay the masters and move the slaves out of the country. African Americans themselves began to disagree with the ACS, they did not want to move to a land they knew nothing about, and many of them were now three or more generations removed from Africa. In the 1830s the ACS failed to achieve its goal of keeping the West a country for whites. Abolitionists not only cared about the freedom of slaves, they also worried that they were... middle of paper... ld Garrison would hang him, the authorities locked Garrison in prison to save his life. When angry white people invaded Elijah Lovejoy's office three times destroying his belongings and he rebuilt it all again three times, he wasn't lucky the fourth time he was shot and killed. Anti-abolitionism only pushed abolitionists to work harder to end slavery. Why did abolitionism change the nation? People knew slavery was wrong, some just needed a movement to go out there and end slavery, it was just black people trying to end slavery, and some white people started doing it and got black people and others white. Anti-slavery being what it really is, it couldn't have succeeded, it was too expensive and would never have succeeded because the slaves didn't know the land. Anti-abolitionism was violence, abolitionist leaders were violent with their words but they spoke the truth. The nation is now aware of this. Works Cited Brinkley