Anti-Slavery Efforts
the name given to those who believed slavery should be stopped
What are Abolitionists?
the first battle in the American Civil War
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses that allowed white citizens to avoid taxes and tests, whites-only primaries, violence and threats, fraud such as ballot-box stuffing and incorrectly counting votes are all examples of this
What are limits to voting rights for African Americans during Jim Crow?
Amendment to the United States Constitution that freed enslaved people
What is the 13th Amendment?
Country from whom the U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory
What is France?
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
A document that was a turning point in the Civil War, when, among other things, it led 180,000 African Americans to enlist in the Union Army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What the Civil Rights Act of 1866 said
What is "all men are equal?"
Amendment to the United States Constitution that gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
Belief that the US should reach from coast to coast
What is Manifest Destiny?
Who led a slave rebellion in Virginia, resulting in the death of 60 people
Who is Nat Turner?
State where General Robert E. Lee was from
What is Virginia
created to help the African Americans in the South after the Civil War
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Amendment to the United States Constitution that gave African Americans citizenship
What is the 14th Amendment?
Country the USA fought to gain the territory that includes present-day Texas?
What is Mexico?
“The Great Postal Campaign” and “The Great Petition Campaign” are examples of this powerful source of antislavery sentiment
What is print media?
Union General who later became president of the United States
Who is Ulysses Grant?
Depriving someone of the right to vote
What is disenfranchisement?
the term used to describe the certain steps that must be taken by the government before they can take away, or inhibit, someone's life, liberties, or property?
What is due process?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended this war
What is the Mexican-American War?
whether or not to support efforts to gain greater equality for women, whether to spend time and money opposing racial discrimination in the North as well as attempting to end slavery in the South, and deciding between nonviolence versus armed rebellion were all issues that caused disagreement among this group
Who are the abolitionists?
The person who delivered the Gettysburg Address
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
enslaved people could not testify against white people, enslaved people could not learn to read and write, enslaved people could not buy or sell items without permission were all part of this
What are the Slave Codes?
Person who wrote the first drafts of both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Who is James Madison?
The railroad that connected the East and West within America
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?