Vocab
The separation of people based on race
What is Segregation?
Amendment that abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
What woman fought for
What are the rights to vote?
States that allowed slavery
What are Slave States?
How slaves were treated
What is property?
A person who wanted to end slavery
Who is an Abolitionist?
Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
Amendment that declared women's right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
States that did not allow slavery
What are Free States?
How slavery ended
What is the 13th amendment?
The period after the Civil War when the South was rebuilt
What is Reconstruction?
The amendment that gave citizenship and equal protection under the law
What is the 14th amendment?
The year that the amendment that gave women rights to vote was ratified on
When was 1920?
Most free states located
What is the North?
Three main rights slaves did not have access to
What is voting, owning property, and receiving education?
The right to vote
What is Suffrage?
Laws that restricted African Americans' rights after the Civil War
What are Black codes?
First major women's rights gathering.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Most slave states located
What is the South?
The year that slavery ended in
When was 1865?
The act of setting someone free
What is Emancipation?
This helped former slaves by giving them education, housing, and jobs.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The year that the first major women's rights gathering (Hint: convention) took place in
When was 1848?
Kept balance between free and slave states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Refers to enslaved people risking their lives to try and escape
What is the Underground Railroad