Democracy's Limits
This event, lasting from 1791-1804, resulted in the only major successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This colony was established in Africa in 1821 for the relocation of enslaved Africans in the United States.
What is Liberia?
The hiring out of enslaved workers who got a stipend to live independently of their enslavers due to housing restrictions was known as this:
What was living out?
This man was the first ever African American to earn a medical degree in the United States.
Who was James McCune Smith?
This Wisconsinite was the first woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's law school, the first woman elected to Milwaukee's city council, the first Black female judge in Wisconsin, and the first Black woman in the nation to be elected to a statewide office (Secretary of State).
This invention, created in 1793 by Eli Whitney, facilitated the explosion of the primary Southern crop sold at the time.
What is the cotton gin?
This group, made up of primarily white pastors and businessmen, hoped to relocate Africans in America back to the African continent.
What was the American Colonization Society?
This law, which granted citizenship to "free white persons" who had lived in the United States at least two year, was passed in 1790.
What was the Naturalization Act?
This woman became the first unofficial female preacher of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Who was Jarena Lee?
This Wisconsin city is considered the most segregated city in the United States.
What is Milwaukee?
This bill, passed in 1793, established the legal mechanisms by which freedom seekers could be seized and returned.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Members of these Black-led groups pledged to support one another "in sickness, and for the benefit of their widows and fatherless children".
What were mutual aid societies?
This Maryland city became a haven for freedom seekers in the years following the American Revolution.
What is Baltimore?
This Black farmer, scientist, inventor and author is perhaps best remembered for his correspondence with Thomas Jefferson.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
This was the first year any non-indigenous Black individuals were noted as living in what is now Wisconsin.
What is 1725?
This piece of the original Constitution described the impact of enslaved people on each state's representation in the House of Representatives.
What is the 3/5 Clause or Compromise?
This war, viewed by many Americans as a "second war of independence", saw thousands of free Blacks serve in the hopes of achieving equity and full citizenship.
What was the War of 1812?
This man helped lead a major slave revolt in Richmond, Virginia in 1800.
Prosser's Gabriel/Gabriel Prosser
This Black preacher protested the American Methodist Church by creating the African Methodist Episcopal denomination, with others, in 1816.
Who is Richard Allen?
In 1866, this Wisconsinite successfully sued the state of Wisconsin for the right to vote, making Wisconsin the first state in the Midwest to provide Black, male suffrage.
Who was Ezekiel Gillespie?
The Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the United States under President Thomas Jefferson, occurred in this year.
What is 1803?
President James Monroe had this African colonial capital city named after him.
What is Monrovia?
What is Virginia?
This wealthy Black businessman took 38 Black Bostonians to Sierra Leone in 1815 in an effort to "relocate" Black enslaved Americans.
Who was Paul Cuffee?
In 1939, the University of Wisconsin withdrew from a track meet at this school, rather than having to leave Ed Smith - a Black hurdler - at home due to the statewide color line.
What is the University of Missouri?