Emancipation
The president who freed enslaved peoples
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Legal Status of Slaves in the United States
What is Property?
Disguised himself as a free sailor to escape slavery
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Most famous African American infantry during the Civil War
What is the 54th Regiment?
Codes that restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
What are Black Codes?
Date the Emancipation Proclamation was put into effect
When is January 1st 1863?
Act that required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
First woman to lead an armed military raid in June 1863. Also a Union scout, spy and nurse
Who is Harriet Tubman?
~10% of the Union Army (although many had non-combative support duties)
What is African American Soldiers?
White supremacist hate group was founded during reconstruction
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Document this quote is from
"that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Other than Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama what states were also in the confederacy?
What is Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia?
The highest ranking black officer in the union army, as well as first African American head of a hospital.
Who is Alexander Augusta?
The first two battles fought during the Civil War to use African Americans
What is Milliken's Bend and Port Hudson?
The amendment that abolished slavery
Amount of people who got their legal status changed from slave to free
Considered to be an unfair advantage by the South, Union forces declared slaves as this...
What is contraband?
First African American nurse during the civil war
Who is Susie King Taylor?
First Black unit to see combat during the Civil War
What is the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment?
The amendment that granted anyone born in the United States citizenship
What is the 14th Amendment?
Abraham Lincoln's views on slavery
What is a transportationist?
Most common form of Opposition to slavery
What is Day-to-Day resistance?
The first black man elected to the North Carolina Legislature.
Who is Abraham Galloway?
Order that threatened reprisal on Confederate prisoners of war (POWs) for any mistreatment of black troops.
What is General Order 252?
The amendment that granted African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?