Who Said That?
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
This 1831 rebellion took place in Virginia, and was led by an enslaved man who believed he was chosen to strike down slavery.
What is Nat Turner's Rebelion?
What is the 13th Amendment?
This organization is America's oldest and largest civil rights organization, founded in 1909.
What is the NAACP? (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
This labor system replaced slavery, often keeping freedpeople trapped working for previous white slaveholders.
What is Sharecropping?
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This 1791 uprising began with a Vodun ceremony and resulted in the first successful slave revolution.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This 1850 law required that enslaved people who escaped one state and fled to another, be returned to their masters.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This political party was founded in 1840 by abolitionists who focused on political action to further antislavery goals.
What is the Liberty Party
This era spanned from 1865 to 1877 and aimed at rebuilding the Southern states after the Civil War.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
"America, it is to thee, Thou boasted land of liberty-It is to thee I raise my song, Thou land of blood, and crime, and wrong."
Who is James Monroe Whitfield?
This 1816 rebellion took place in Barbados and shares the same name as the enslaved man who led the rebellion.
What is Bussa's Rebellion?
This executive order declared that all persons held as slaves in rebellious states shall be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This group was founded in 1787 by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, and its goal was to aid newly freed people.
What is the Free African Society?
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States, effectively granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul."
Who is Frances Ellen Watkins Harper?
This 1831-1832 revolt led by Samuel Sharpe led to Britain deciding to abolish slavery.
What is the Baptist War? (or Jamaican Christmas Rebellion)
This 1866 law stated all peoples born in the United States were citizens and were guaranteed equal protection, regardless of race.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This was a secret network of abolitionists and safe houses that assisted enslaved people in escaping to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This white supremacist group formed in 1866, and its main goal was to undermine the Republican party and enact violence against newly freed people.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
"That there's a God, that there's a Savior too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew."
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
This 1739 uprising in South Carolina, led by an enslaved man named Jemmy, had rebels chanting "Liberty" while marching towards Spanish Florida.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This 1794 law prohibited exporting slaves from the United States to any foreign place or country.
What is the Slave Trade Act of 1794?
This group, organized in 1833 by Lucretia Mott, was an interracial group of women who sought to end slavery.
What is the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society?
Established in 1865 by the war department, this agency established schools, operated refugee camps, and supervised labor contracts between planters and freedpeople.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?