Antebellum America (1776-1861)
This name for activists like William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth, refers to those who opposed the practice of slavery.
What is Abolitionist / Abolitionism?
Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877 when this newly elected President agreed to withdraw troops from the South in exchange for Southern states acknowledging his narrow election win.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Southern states attempted to limit the rights granted to Black Americans by constitutional amendments by passing Jim Crow laws, which enforced this system of racial separation.
What is segregation?
In 1963, this civil rights leader gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
This 1850 act required that slaves who had escaped be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
What is The Fugitive Slave Act?
This Reconstruction Amendment permanently abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This civil rights leader believed segregation should end immediately and Blacks should not have to earn or wait their equality from whites.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
This seamstress became the inspiration of the Montgomery bus boycotts when she refused to give up her seat on the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Early in his presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal was not to end slavery but to do what was necessary to preserve this.
What is "the union"?
This system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop trapped many freed slaves in a cycle of poverty.
What is sharecropping?
This civil rights leader thought Blacks should focus on working hard, saving money, and getting a practical education so they would be superior laborers.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This non-violent method of civil disobedience involves people occupying an area for a protest and refusing to move until demands are met.
What is a sit-in?
New technology led to an increase in the production and demand of this crop in the early 1800s, which was a major reason for the expansion of slavery.
What is cotton?
This first President ever to be impeached, he fought with Radical Republicans in Congress to allow former Confederate white Southerners to regain leadership in the South.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The name for important contributions to music, literature, and art made by Black Americans who moved to New York City during the Great Migration.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
He was the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This term from the Kansas-Nebraska Act refers to the idea that new states had the right to decide by vote whether they would enter as a slave state or a free state.
What is popular sovereignty?
During the Reconstruction Era, this amendment was adopted to grant African Americans voting rights regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
This 1896 Supreme Court case ruled that segregation did not violate the 14th Amendment equality clause if "separate but equal" facilities were made available.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that the segregation of American public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?