Slang Through the Centuries
White Republicans traveling from the North as missionaries and entrepreneurs were given this scornful nickname by white Southerners.
What is a carpetbagger?
This female abolitionist wrote the famous book Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This document, written during the American Revolution, highlights principles of equality and the rights of the people, becoming a rallying cry for those denied their rights.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This series of forced relocations of Native Americans to the Indian Territory in Oklahoma was initiated by president Andrew Jackson in the 1830s to make room for opportunities for the common white man.
What is the Trail of Tears?
During Reconstruction, anti-African American hate groups such as this one were organized to intimidate black voters in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Southern-born individuals wanting to promote the rebuilding of the South in cooperation with the Republican Reconstruction governments were called this.
What is a scalawag?
This well-known muckraker wrote The Jungle, a novel prompting Theodore Roosevelt to pass both the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This amendment to the Constitution freed slaves throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This compromise allowed Missouri to be added as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and permitted the expansion of slavery below the 36° 30' line of latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This fee, along with literacy tests, were put in place to eliminate the effectiveness of the 15th Amendment, taking away African Americans' ability to vote.
What are poll taxes?
This term refers to African American people who moved to Kansas after the Civil War.
What is an Exoduster?
This newspaper editor wrote an editorial criticizing segregated schools, an editorial that would cost her job as a teacher.
Who is Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
This movement first developed among the Quakers, who believed that everyone, even slaves, had an inner light.
What was the abolitionist movement?
This document, announced in the fall of 1862 by president Abraham Lincoln and made effective January 1, 1863, did not attempt to free slaves of states under union control or in border states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
During the debate about who should be counted for representation purposes, Southern states wanted to count slaves; Northern states did not want to give Southern states this political advantage. This compromise resulted.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This term refers to journalists who investigated sticky subjects, such as the plights of the workers and immigrants, and the corruption of political machines.
What is a muckraker?
This abolitionist started the newspaper The Liberator, which was banned in the south.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This movement was active in the North and was tied to the abolitionist movement.
What was the women's rights movement?
This harmless attempt to revive Native American traditions was viewed as a threat by the U.S. Army and led to a massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
What is the Ghost Dance?
In reaction to the end of the Civil War and to retain their way of life, Southern state governments passed these, a replacement to their slave codes.
What are the Black Codes?
This derogatory term was used in reference to the immigrants and African Americans who were hired to replace strikers.
What is a scab?
This author of popular "rags to riches" stories provided support for the Gilded Age myth that anyone could make it if they worked hard enough.
Who is Horatio Alger?
Declaring slavery illegal in the Northwest Territory, this was the first effort by the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories.
What are the Northwest Ordinances?
This act was passed after the completion of the railroad, when those workers were no longer desired.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Ironically, when the state of Georgia was initially chartered in 1733, it did this regarding slavery, when later it became a plantation colony dependent on slavery.
What is outlaw?