SLAVERY, LAW & ABOLITION
This free Black man was arrested by U.S. marshals in New York but was eventually reunited with his family with the help of abolitionist and his community buying his freedom.
Who is James Hamlet?
At the beginning of the Civil War, African Americans were __________ from joining the U.S. Army.
What is not allowed?
This amendment made all people born in the United States citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This term for racial separation became common in the 20th century.
What is segregation?
This leader believed economic success would lead to political and social acceptance.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This Supreme Court case ruled that Black people were not citizens and could not sue in federal court.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This 1863 document freed enslaved people only in Confederate-held states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment protected the voting rights of Black men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The primary targets of white southern violence after the Civil War.
Who were African Americans?
This scholar graduated from his local high school, earned a PhD from Harvard University,and later challenged Washington’s ideas.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This group secretly funded John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry.
Who were the Secret Six?
Name one Confederate state where enslaved people were freed under the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina?
Most delegates at southern constitutional conventions during Reconstruction belonged to this political party.
Who were Republicans?
By 1900, this group had been almost entirely removed from southern politics.
Who were Black politicians?
This man founded the American Negro Academy in 1897.
Who is Alexander Crummell?
This political party nominated John Bell in the election of 1860.
What was the Constitutional Union Party?
By 1864, the Confederacy faced this outcome.
What is almost certain defeat?
During Reconstruction, Republicans created these systems in southern states.
What are statewide public education systems?
In 1886 Texas, racial violence centered on disputes over this democratic process.
What is election fraud?
What is the boll weevil?
This insect devastated cotton crops in the South during the 1910s. This was a push factor from the South in the Great Migration.
Abraham Lincoln believed this goal was more important than emancipation at the start of the Civil War.
What is preserving the Union?
This was one immediate goal of many formerly enslaved people after slavery ended.
What is finding family members?
White southerners justified political violence by claiming Black men had no legitimate claim to these.
What are political rights?
A Black defendant with a Black lawyer in the late 1800s was more likely to receive this outcome.
What is a conviction?
What is the NAACP?
Bonus 100 Points: What does NAACP stand for?
In the 1920s, this civil rights organization focused on courts and political systems.
Bonus: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People