RESISTANCE
Fear of this happening led to the enactment of slave codes in the South.
What are slave revolts.
The network of safe houses and escape routes used by enslaved individuals to reach freedom in the North.
What was the Underground Railroad
What court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens so they could not have the rights as free people?
What is Dred Scott vs Sandford.
Advocates of this type of resistance embraced overthrowing slavery through direct action, including revolts and, if necessary, violence to address the daily urgency of living and dying under slavery.
What is radical resistance
The underground railroad was a covert network of Black and White abolitionists who provided transportation, shelter, and other resources to help enslaved people fleeing the South resettle in free territories in the U.S. North, Canada, and Mexico in the 19th century. One of the most well-known conductors of the Underground Railroad, after fleeing enslavement, she returned to the South at least 19 times, leading enslaved African Americans to freedom. She sang spirituals to alert enslaved people of plans to leave.
Who was Harriet Tubman
Thousands of free and enslaved African Americans from the North and South joined the effort to advance the causes of abolition and Black citizenship. For many free and enslaved African American men, service in this army demonstrated their view of themselves as U.S. citizens, despite the inequities they faced.
What is the Union Army or Unites States Army
This revolution which was the only uprising of enslaved people that resulted in overturning a colonial, slaveholding government. It transformed a European colony into a Black republic free of slavery and created the second independent nation in the Americas, after the U.S. It inspired uprisings in other African diaspora communities, such as the Louisiana Slave Revolt (1811), one of the largest on U.S. soil, and the Malê Uprising of Muslim slaves (1835), one of the largest revolts in Brazil.
What was the Haitian Revolution.
This amendment abolished slavery?
What was the 13th amendment.
What were some key places suggested as an option for the emigration of African Americans? (Name two)
What is Africa, Upper Canada, Mexico, etc.
More enslaved Africans disembarked in this South American country than anywhere else in the Americas. Approximately half of the 10 million Africans who survived the Middle Passage landed here, where they were forced to labor in various enterprises such as sugar plantations, gold mines, coffee plantations, cattle ranching, and production of food and textiles for domestic consumption.
What is Brazil
He started the Southampton (Virginia) Insurrection?
Who is Nat Turner.
During the Civil War Harriet Tubman served the Union Army in this capacity.
What is a Union spy
What act required that escaped slaves should be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state?
What was the Fugitive Slave Act
A result of the rising tension between the North and Southern states due to the issue of slavery.
What was the Civil War.
The first person to relocate African Americans from the United States to Africa
Who is Paul Cuffee
_____________ were a form of music practiced by enslaved African Americans that blended elements of Christianity with African themes and culture.
Spirituals
This individual became the first African American to publish a book of poetry.
Who is Phillis Wheatley
This wartime order, declared freedom for enslaved people held in the 11 Confederate states still at war against the Union. After the Civil War, legal enslavement of African Americans continued in the border states and did not end until the ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865.
What is the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation
The emancipation from slavery offered by Spanish Florida to slaves fleeing the British colonies inspired this rebellion in South Carolina in 1739. Led by Jemmy, an enslaved man from the Angola region, nearly 100 enslaved African Americans set fire to plantations and marched toward sanctuary in Spanish Florida.
What was the Stono Rebellion
The 13th Amendment did not apply to the nearly 10,000 African Americans enslaved by them. The U.S. government negotiated treaties with these nations to end legal slavery in their territories in 1866, though these treaties did not grant freed men rights as citizens in these territories.
What is Indigenous nations.
What were the arguments FOR the emigration of African Americans back to Africa?
What are more opportunities in Africa, less discrimination, a closer step toward ending slavery, etc.
Name at least 3 of the Five Civilized Tribes.
Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole
The abolitionist-inspired movement that fought for the rights of women.
What is the women's suffrage movement.
This marks the end of slavery in the last state of rebellion—Texas. It commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were informed that they were free by Major-General Gordon Granger’s reading of General Order No. 3. This order was the first document to mention racial equality through “an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves.”
What is Juneteenth
They were Afro-descendants who escaped slavery to establish free communities. During the Haitian Revolution, they disseminated information across disparate groups and organized attacks.
What are the maroons
Name five key abolitionists.
Who was Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, the Grimke sisters, etc.
What were the arguments AGAINST the emigration of African Americans back to Africa?
What are Blacks had earned the right to live in the United States, it was an excuse to get rid of free blacks, it would create conflict with the native Africans, etc.
These Societies were created to benefit schools, churches, and businesses in both the South and North by African Americans
Mutual-Aid Societies
Formerly enslaved, he became an ardent Black abolitionist and was appointed General Consul and U.S. Minister to Haiti
Frederick Douglass
Thousands of free and enslaved African Americans from the North and South joined the Union war effort to advance these causes.
What is abolition and Black citizenship
This was the first sanctioned free Black town in what is now the U.S.
What is Fort Mose
These described firsthand accounts of suffering under slavery, methods of escape, and acquiring literacy, with an emphasis on the humanity of enslaved people to advance the political cause of abolition.
What are Slave narratives
This was a White-led organization that drove earlier attempts to colonize parts of Africa in order to relocate free Black people from the U.S.
What is the American Colonization Society
The Ashanti woman and spiritual leader of maroon community in eastern Jamaica (“Windward”) who organized resistance against British colonial forces
She was the first Black woman to publish a political manifesto, and one of the first American women to give a public address. Her advocacy in the 1830s contributed to the first wave of the feminist movement.
Who is Maria Stewart
Free Black Communities in the North during the Civil War experienced this from opponents of Black citizenship and political equality
What is Anti-Black violence