I know that word!
This term is used to describe cruel and oppressive rule or abusive government.
What is tyranny?
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state, admitted Maine as a free state, and banned slavery north of the 36"30' line in the remaining Louisiana Purchase Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What is The Race to Freedom?
This organization helped former slaves have access to jobs, educational opportunities, clothes, medical attention, and legal protection.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Military base attacked! No casualties.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This term was used to describe the rebuilding era following the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This compromise or act created a huge issue when "popular sovereignty" turned into a literal bleeding episode.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This invention that was originally intended to end slavery had the opposite effect.
What is the cotton gin?
It was here that hundreds of women gathered at a convention to plan how they would take the women's rights movement to the national level.
What is Seneca Falls?
War Begins! Confederate and Union soldiers meet on the battlefield in Manassass.
What is Bull Run?
These terms were used to describe individuals who moved from the North and into the South following the Civil War.
Who are carpetbaggers and scalawags?
"What to the slave is the American 4th of July?"
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
"No, not a compromise, you need to surrender."
*Basically Ulysses S. Grant to Robert E. Lee in this famous meeting*
What is Appomattox Courthouse in 1865?
This was the secret pathways and workings of many individuals to free slaves in the south.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Brutal Conditions and extreme work hours became the daily life for these individuals as they worked to earn money for their families.
What are women and children in Northern factories?
White House releases war time document of freedom!
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This term is used to describe the action of government to do the will of the people through voting.
"The schools for white children and the schools for negro children shall be conducted separately" and "All passenger stations in this state shall have separate waiting rooms and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races."
Who is Jim Crow (laws)?
This created a new Texas boarder, prohibited slavery in D.C., established a stricter Fugitive Slave law, and admitted California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This guy would have posted both #abolish and #votesforwomen
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
This woman is the most recognized individual in the suffrage movement who unfortunately died before she could (legally) vote.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
"No Surrender" Grant captures town in Mississippi
What is Vicksburg?
The act of the Executive to forbid legislation from Congress
What is a veto?
"...any person aiding a fugitive by providing food or shelter was subject to six months’ imprisonment and a $1,000 fine."
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
John Brown attempted a raid here to gather weapons and arm slaves for a revolt on October 16, 1859.
What is Harper's Ferry?
These two amendments were added to the Constitution to ensure that voting rights were extended to all citizens who were of age.
What are the 15th and 19th amendments?
Stanton and thousand others gather in NY
What is the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls?
The legal process where courts examine the actions of the legislative and executive branches
What is Judicial Review?
In this ruling, he wrote the decision for the U.S. Supreme Court saying that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts.
Who is Chief Justice Roger B. Taney (Dred Scott Decision)?
This agreement gave Republican Rutherford B Hayes the presidency while removing all American soldiers from their posts in the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The ruling in this court case stated that Slaves were property and always would be. This reignited the Abolitionist movement and led some to violence.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
Lincoln slain, a martyr for all time
What is April 15th, 1865?