Early Equality Issues
3/5ths Compromise
This historical figure raided the Federal Arsenal in an effort to get the guns in the hands of anti-slavery forces
John Brown
The period known as the Reconstruction lasted for _______________ years
12
Plessy v Ferguson
This famous Civil Rights leader advocated for Non-Violent resistance and was known for his leadership in the March on Washington (among other things).
Martin Luther King Jr.
Appoximately ________________ slaves were brought out of Africa. Of those, roughly _________% arrived in what is currently the United States.
12.5 million
4%
In _____________ , the abolitionists and slave advocates clashed in what can be seen as a precursor to the Civil War.
Bleeding Kansas
This Constitutional Amendment established birth right citizenship and due process
14th Amendment
This court case ruled that slaves were never to be considered citizens and therefore should not enjoy the rights outlined in the Constitution
Scott v Sanford (Dred Scott case)
This Civil Rights Leader exclaimed that African Americans should gain their freedom "by any means necessary."
Malcolm X
The following quote refers to the concept of _____________:
We are the nation of progress, of individual freedom, of universalenfranchisement.
"Our future history will be to establish on earth the moraldignity and salvation of man — the undeniable truth and goodness of God...Who, then, can doubt that our country isdestined to be the great nation of the future?"
Manifest Destiny
This historical figure escaped out of slavery, was a strong voice for the abolition of slavery, and met with Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
This organization established programs to assist former slaves during The Reconstruction
The Freedmen's Bureau
This court case over-turned the practice of segregated schools
Brown v Board of Education
This Civil Rights activist was featured in the movie, Selma, and later went on to become a member of Congress (serving in the House of Representatives, representing the 5th district in Georgia)
John Lewis
Th Creeks, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole nations came to be known as the ________________ tribes.
Civilized
This court case considered the question of whether or not a slave who traveled to a free state with his owner should be granted his freedom.
Scott vs. Sanford
This Amendment abolished slavery
13th Amendment
This was the first official immigration law (upheld by the Supreme Court)
Chinese Exclusion Act
This is an organization dedicated to fighting for rights through the legal system ___.___.___.___.___.
N.A.A.C.P (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
This legislation forced Native Americans togive up their land and relocate tolands west of the Mississippi river
Indian Removal Act
Who is Judge Taney, and what was his court decision
The Supreme Court judge who decided that Dred Scott (and all other slaves) were never considered citizens and should not have the rights outlined in the Constitution.
This was the system under which plantation owners divided their land andassigned former slaves a few acres
Sharecropping
This man was a lawyer in the famous school segregation case, and went on to become the first African American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
This early civil rights leader was a "racial accommodationist", which meant that he rejected the pursuit of political and social equality with whites in favor of developing vocational skills
Booker T. Washington