Revolution
This event started as an argument between an American colonist and a British officer, and ended in a blood bath with at least five American colonists dead (including Crispus Attucks)
What the Boston Massacre?
This person was the first African American (and woman) to become a published author in the United States.
Who is Phillis Wheatley.
The two original parties of the United States. One believed in a (big) strong-central government and was anti-slavery. The other believed in a small government and were pro-slavery.
Who were the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans?
This event (inspired by the French Revolution) lasted from 1791 to 1804. It ended with the formation of the first Black Republic in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
The second military issue between the United States and Great Britain.
What is the War of 1812?
This man is known as a founding father of the United States, and author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This man was a runaway slave that became a martyr to the American colonists during the Revolutionary war. He is also known to be the first person to die during the American Revolution.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
A compromise between Southern and Northern delegates during the Constitutional Convention that agreed to count three out every five enslaved people as humans for representation in congress and for taxation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
A group of people who belong to a Protestant denomination known as the Religious Society of Friends. They were also known as strong opponents of slavery.
Who are Quakers?
This war was between France and Great Britain (on American soil), and is thought to be the root cause of the Revolutionary War.
What is the French and Indian War?
This was the number of African Americans (Black people) that served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
What is 5,000 men?
This was the first African American (Black) literary tradition in the United States.
What is poetry?
The Lower South delegates of the newly formed United States "won" these during the Constitutional Convention.
What is the...
1. 3/5 Compromise
2. The Fugitive Slave Clause
3. The continuation of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade until 1808.
An anti-slavery organization founded in 1780 in Newport, Rhode Island that was devoted to building and organizing the Black community in various states.
What is the Free African Society?
This African American woman is known in history as the mother of 6 (2 confirmed, 4 speculated) Black children with Thomas Jefferson. She served as his daughter's handmaid.
Who is Sally Hemings?
This was an order from the British governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War that allowed African Americans (Specifically Black men) freedom if they volunteered for the British army.
What is Lord Dunbar's Proclamation?
These were formed in the beginning stages of the United States as a sort of safe space for African Americans (Black people) where they could participate in shared culture and ministry.
What are Black Churches?
This was a legislative act passed in July of 1787 that outlawed slavery in new territories of the United States.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Paul Cuffe (a free-born African American and abolitionist) believed in this process that was known for sending Free Black Americans to Sierra Leone and other settlements in West Africa.
What is Colonization?
This document has been described by historians as the "weak" document that unified the 13 colonies after the American Revolution/Revolutionary War.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This policy allowed African Americans (Black men) with previous military experience to serve in the Continental Army.
What is the 1776 Continental Congress Policy Regarding Black Americans?
This was the population of African Americans (Black people) in the early stages of the United States. Most of these people were enslaved in the Lower South region. Around 32,000 people in this population were NOT enslaved.
What is 750,000?
A term from historian Edmund Morgan that describes the enlightened ideas of the founding fathers (freedom from British control for all White Americans), while still enslaving Black Americans.
What is the American Paradox?
An Enslaved blacksmith (who was inspired by the Haitian Revolution) planned to attack the city of Richmond and destroy slavery in the state of Virginia. This is thought to be one of the most extensive anti-slavery conspiracies in history.
What is Gabriel's 1793 Rebellion?
This American city saw its Black population rise to 53% between 1790 and 1800 due to their early abolition of slavery.
What is Boston?