Chinese Exclusion Act
The year the Chinese Exclusion Act was first enacted (put into action by the U.S. Government).
What is 1882>
The Underground Railroad was this.
What is a series of routes, places (safehouses), and people who/which helped enslaved people escape to points North to freedom?
The first convention to discuss women's rights happened in this year.
What is 1848?
This Act allowed for popular sovereignty (the people vote and decide) whether or not two states would enter the Union as free or slave states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This is something enslaved people would do on a day-to-day basis to resist against their masters.
What is break tools, pretend to be sick, tamper with masters' food, spread news and information?
Chinese workers came over from China to work on this major construction project between the years of 1863 - 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Underground Railroad existed between these years.
What is 1810-1850?
The first convention to discuss women's rights happened in this city and state.
What is Seneca Falls, New York?
This "compromise" allowed Missouri in the Union as a slave state, Maine in the Union as a free state, and no slavery above the 36'30'N line moving westward.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
This was considered a larger form of rebellion because it was more dangerous. (two possible answers)
What is escape and learn to read and write?
Untruths were created about Chinese immigrants from these two things.
What is jealousy and racist ideas?
Due to this, travel on the Underground Railroad happened at night.
What is it was dangerous to travel during the day on the Underground Railroad because there were people trying to catch the runaway slaves.
This convention was led by these two early suffragists.
What/who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
This "compromise" allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and ended the slave trade in Washington, DC, but said slavery as a practice could still exist in DC, slavery could extend above the 36'30'N line in parts of NM and all of Utah territory, and enacted the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1850?
Nat Turner's Rebellion could be described in these words.
What is a slave-led rebellion against his master and other masters to revolt against the institution of slavery.
These were the two biggest points of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
What is no Chinese immigration for 10 years and what is Chinese immigrants had to carry papers of identification?
There was often this amount of distance between safe-house to safe-house.
What is 10 - 20 miles or 16 - 19 kilometers.
The name of the first African American woman to speak at a national African American conventions, the first African American woman to edit and publish a newspaper in North America, the first African American woman to enter Howard University's Law Program, and the first African American woman to obtain a law degree. She was also a prominent women's rights' activist.
Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary?
The United States Government was trying to do this in regards to slavery as they gained more territory westward.
What is keep the balance between free and slave states? Many were trying to prevent the spread of slavery.
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry meant to do this.
What is steal the guns from the U.S. armory and give them to enslaved people further down South so they could revolt for their freedom.
There was a form of the Chinese Exclusion Act from 1882 until this year.
What is 1943?
This type of person helped the people along the Underground Railroad.
What is many different types of people who came from different income levels, different occupations, and formerly enslaved people, as well?
The date women finally voted in their first election.
What is November 2nd, 1920.
This event happened in one state because the fight between anti-slavery and pro-slavery people grew vicious.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This free African American joined John Brown's raid out of desperation to try and free his wife and children who were still in bondage down South.
Who is Dangerfield Newby?