Manifest Destiny & Slavery
What political movement focused on ending slavery?
What is abolitionism?
What novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe increased Northern support for abolition?
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
What were the states called that supported the Union even though slavery remained legal in them
What are the border states?
Which amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude?
What is the 13th Amendment?
What were the state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
What are Jim Crow laws?
What was the belief that white Americans were divinely destined to settle the entire North American continent?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What 1850 agreement admitted California as a free state but also strengthened fugitive slave laws?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What document announced the freeing of enslaved people in states that had seceded from the Union, with certain exceptions?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Which amendment granted citizenship to people born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed equal protection under the law?
What is the 14th Amendment?
What were racially discriminatory state laws that limited the freedom of Black Americans after the Civil War?
What are Black Codes?
Name one example of indirect resistance used by enslaved people to resist slavery.
What is slowing down work, damaging property, maintaining dignity, or learning to read?
What law allowed white male settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether their territories would permit slavery?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What famous speech declared that the United States should stand for the principle that all men are created equal?
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Which amendment prohibited states from denying the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
What is the 15th Amendment?
What labor system allowed a farmer to work land in exchange for a percentage of the crop?
What is sharecropping?
What were two examples of direct resistance by enslaved people?
What are rebellions and running away?
What Supreme Court decision declared that Black people were not U.S. citizens and could not sue in federal court?
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Approximately how many Black soldiers and sailors fought for the Union by the end of the Civil War?
What is almost 200,000?
What federal agency provided food, housing, medical aid, schools, and legal assistance to formerly enslaved people and poor white Southerners after the Civil War?
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Why did sharecroppers often struggle to escape poverty?
What is that they often lacked money for seeds and had to borrow money at high costs from landowners?
What term describes the act of breaking away from a larger political group to form a separate entity?
What is secession?
What abolitionist raided a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in an attempt to start an armed revolt against slavery?
Who is John Brown?
Why did the Emancipation Proclamation not immediately free every enslaved person in the United States?
What is that it applied to states that had seceded, exempting loyal border states and certain areas already under Northern control?
Which amendment left room for states to impose voter qualifications that were later used to restrict Black voting through measures such as poll taxes and literacy tests?
What is the 15th Amendment?
How did Black Codes and Jim Crow laws restrict Black Americans in different ways?
What is that Black Codes limited Black Americans’ freedom through discriminatory state laws, while Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation?