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This term is used to describe the action of government to do the will of the people.
What is popular soverignty?
"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?
This invention that was originally intended to end slavery had the opposite effect.
What is the cotton gin?
This organization helped former slaves have access to jobs, educational opportunities, clothes, medical attention, and legal protection.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
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 was the secret pathways and workings of many individuals to free slaves in the south.
What is the Underground Railroad?
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?
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?
This War-time document released in 1863 freed slaves in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
"No, not a compromise, you need to surrender."
*Basically Ulysses S. Grant to Robert E. Lee*
What is Appomattox Courthouse in 1865?
John Brown attempted a raid here to gather weapons and arm slaves for a revolt on October 16, 1859.
What is Harper's Ferry?
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?
This term is used to describe the action of taking someone else's work and using it for your own benefit.
What is plagiarism?
"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?
This term is used to describe cruel and oppressive rule.
What is tyranny?
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 in the 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?
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?