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The first independent black republic
What is Haiti?
Went into effect in 1789
What is the U.S Constitution?
Provided leadership for African Americans in religion, economic advancement, and racial politics
What is an educated black elite?
A late development in a massive military and economic struggle between Britain and France for mastery over the Atlantic world
What is the War of 1812?
The act of freeing a slave by the slaves master
What is Manumissions?
Providing for orderly land sales, public education, government, the creation of five to seven states out of the territory, and the prohibition of slavery within the territory
What is Northwest Ordinance?
The first independent black chruch
What is the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church?
Established Freetown in Sierra Leone on the West African coast as a refuge for former slaves
Who are British philanthropists and Olaudah Equiano?
Nearly obliterated positive white memories of black Patriot soldiers during the Revolution
What is prejudice and fear of revolt?
An act of congress permitting maters to recapture escaped slaves who had reached the free states and, with authorization of local courts, return with the slave or slaves to their home state
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793?
Which states had the largest free black populations?
What is Maryland and Virginia?
Who is Prince Hall?
Perceived that white people were politically divided and distracted by an uncleared naval war with France
Who is Gabriel?
Permitted Missouri to become a slave state; maintained a sectional political balance by admitting Maine as a free state; and banned slavery north of the 36 degree 30 line of latitude in the old Louisiana Territory
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A simple machine invented by Eli Whitley to separate cotton seeds from cotton fiber
What is a Cotton Gin?
The president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Slavery and racism, freedom and opportunity
What shaped the growth of African American communities?
Influential black minister of Baltimore during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
Who is Daniel Coker?
The nation's first political parties
What is the Federalist and the Republican?
A trade dating from the first decade of the nineteenth century in American-born slaves purchased primarily in the border South and sent overland or by sea to the cotton-growing regions of the Old Southwest
What is the Domestic Slave Trade?
Causing the blossoming of the Upper South
What is manumission, self-purchase, and freedom suits?
Provided that a slave be counted as three-fifths of a free person in determining a state's representation in Congress and the Electoral College, and three-fifths of a person in regard to per capita taxes levied by Congress on the states
What is the Three-Fifths Clause?
"Probably the most noteworthy free African-American entrepreneur in the early nineteenth century"
Who is James Forten of Philadelphia?
Eliminated armed black participation in all state militias except that of North Carolina
What is The Militia Act of 1792?
An organization founded in Washington, D.C by prominent slaveholders
What is the American Colonization Society?