Abolition & Resistance
This movement aimed to end slavery in the United States.
What was the abolitionist movement?
This series of laws passed in 1850 tried to settle disputes between free and slave states, including a stronger Fugitive Slave Act.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This was Lincoln’s goal when issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was to weaken the Confederacy and redefine the war as a fight for freedom?
This was the primary goal of Reconstruction.
What was to reunite the nation and rebuild the South after the Civil War?
This period left behind both constitutional changes and deep racial tensions in the South.
What was the legacy of Reconstruction?
This 1831 event was a violent uprising by enslaved people in Virginia that resulted in stricter slave laws.
What was Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
This 1854 act allowed settlers in two new territories to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty, leading to violent conflict.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address stressed that the Union must ensure that “government of the people, by the people, for the people” does not perish.
What is “The outcome of the Civil War will determine whether our country founded on freedom and equality will last”?
This set of state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the South.
What were the Jim Crow laws?
These Southern laws segregated public facilities based on race.
What were the Jim Crow laws?
This network of secret routes and safe houses helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What was the Underground Railroad?
The election of this president in 1860 led several Southern states to secede from the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States.
What was the 13th Amendment?
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
This group used terror and violence to suppress African American political activity during Reconstruction.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
This document, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, was written at the Seneca Falls Convention to demand equal rights for women.
What was the Declaration of Sentiments?
This 1863 order freed enslaved people in Confederate states still in rebellion.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This term describes the rebuilding of the South and reintegration of former Confederate states after the Civil War.
What was Reconstruction?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What was the 13th Amendment?
This phrase refers to laws that prevented African Americans from voting if their ancestors hadn’t voted before the Civil War.
What were grandfather clauses?
This 1820 agreement maintained a balance between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This speech by Abraham Lincoln emphasized that the Civil War would determine whether a nation founded on liberty and equality could endure.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
This group, formed during Reconstruction, used violence and intimidation to prevent African Americans from exercising their rights.
What was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
These tactics—like literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses—were used to prevent African Americans from voting.
What was voter suppression or disenfranchisement?
This 1896 decision upheld segregation and shaped racial policy in America for over half a century.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?