Background Essay
Understanding the Question and Pre-Bucketing
Document A
Document B
Document C
100
31,000,000
What was the population of the United States in 1860?
100
How free were free blacks in the North?
What is the anlytical question asked by this Mini-Q?
100
New England
What region in the North were most free black males permitted to vote?
100
To live, thrive, pay taxes, and perform duties.
What rights did a free Northern black have?
100
A young African American
What is: Who is the author of the speech in Document C?
200
4,500,000
What was the slave population of the United States in 1860?
200
1800 to 1860
What is the time period being examined in this lesson?
200
Massachusetts
What was the only Northern state in 1860 to allow black male suffrange and jury service?
200
Dine and drink; to serve jury duty; attend courts; represent legislature; mingle in the concert room, lecture room, the threatre; or the church; or marry white daughters of the North.
What freedomes were denied free blacks in the North?
200
1819
What is: In what year was the speech in Document C?
300
221,000
What was the free black population of the United States in the North in 1860?
300
The right to vote or serve on a jury
What is political freedom?
300
New York
What Mid-Atlantic state had restricted black male suffrage?
300
Charles Mackay
What is: Who is the author of this primary source document?
300
New York
What state was the speech of Document C delivered?
400
4.9%
What percentage of all African-Americans in the United States in 1860 living in the North?
400
The right to eat at a restaurant of your choice.
What is social freedom?
400
Leon Litwack
What is: From whom was Document A extracted from?
400
Political Freedoms
What is: Having to do with participation in government?
400
Generally illegal
What is education in the south?
500
Census
What is: How is a total population count of the U. S. administered every 10 years?
500
The right to attend a church of one's own choice.
What is religious freedom?
500
Suffrage
What is the act of voting?
500
Social Freedoms
What is: Having to do with the right to mix with different people?
500
Charles Andrews
What is: Who is the author of The History of the New York Free-Schools?
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