What document was written that declared colonists free from Great Britain
The Declaration of Independence?
100
African-Americans in the North formed many of these types of institutions
What churches and schools?
100
This branch government passes laws and is divided into two houses:the upper- Senate and the lower-Congress
What is the Legislative Branch?
100
The passing of this act led pro-slavery and anti-slavery activist to Kansas for a bloody showdown
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
100
This is the idea that the human species first appeared in Africa then migrated to the rest of the world.
What is the Out of Africa Theory?
200
The Declaration of Independence did not include which group of people?
African-Americans
200
These types of organizations/societies provided help to widows, runaway slaves, those who need medical attention and families who lost a loved one.
What are mutual aid societies?
200
These individuals fought to bring slavery to end by writing newspapers and giving speeches
Who are Abolitionist?
200
This abolitionist devised a plan to seize weapons from a federal arsenal and use those weapons to the free the slaves in the south.
Who is John Brown?
200
This document freed slaves that were held in rebellious states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
Why did African-Americans fight in the Revolutionary War?
The believe in the ideas of Liberty and Freedom or they were promised freedom
300
This happened in the North more quickly due to less plantations and complaints from immigrant workers
What is Emancipation or Freedom?
300
This led to California becoming a free state, stricter slave laws, and Utah and New Mexico becoming territories.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
After hearing about our country engaging a in Civil War these men started forming military companies and begin to train.
Who are African-American men?
300
This was the final decision Lincoln made before he was assassinated.
What is the passing of the 13th Amendment- abolishing slavery
400
He was the first man black or white to have last his life in the fight for freedom
Who is Crispus Attucks?
400
This man was the only person to lead a rebellion that led white slave masters and their families being killed.
Who is Nat Turner?
400
This law gave permission to slave master to capture their runaway slaves and receive help from the federal government if they needed it
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
400
This policy allowed Union soldiers to sieze any property being used by the Confederacy in the war
What is the First Confiscation Act?
400
This was the 2-3 month voyage of Africans being transported from the Africa to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
500
Because of the ideas of Revolution and Liberty slaves started many of theses
What are slave rebellions?
500
This led to Missouri becoming a slave state and Maine becoming a free State
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
The Supreme Court told this man he did have a right to sue for his freedom because Blacks were "beings of an inferior order.so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."
Who is Dred Scott?
500
These consisted of all black soldiers and a white commander
What are black military regiments?
500
This was the process Africans went through when they arrived in the Americas to get adjusted to their new life