Pre-Civil War
These activists, like David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet, believed in the use of violence to end enslavement.
Militant abolitionists
This famous Underground Railroad conductor was also a Union spy.
Harriet Tubman
This 1865 law freed all enslaved people in the United States.
13th Amendment
The United States president during the Civil War who proposed the 10% Plan.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This movement wanted to end chattel slavery in the United States.
Abolition or Antislavery Movement
This act allowed slave catchers to enter northern states to bring runaways back to their enslavers.
Fugitive Slave Act
This 1863 law freed enslaved Africans under Confederate control.
Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment gave citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born or naturalized in the United States.
14th Amendment
This Black abolitionist was formerly enslaved and became a famous abolitionist speaker.
Frederick Douglass
What was Reconstruction?
The period of time after the Civil War when the government was trying to repair the country.
This law allowed Missouri to enter the United States as a slave state and allowed Maine to enter as a free state.
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The event that kicked off the violence of the Civil War.
What is the attack on Fort Sumpter.
This law stated that no citizen could be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous servitude.
15th Amendment
This enslaved man sued for his freedom and was told he was not a citizen and thus had no rights.
Dred Scott
This organization provided relief to needy southerners in the form of food, clothing, and education.
Freedman's Bureau
This law allowed California to enter the country as a free state and made territories use popular sovereignty to decide if they were free or slave territories.
The Compromise of 1850
The reason the Union army allowed the enlistment of Black soldiers.
Union soldiers were dying and they needed more people to fight.
These laws prohibited freedpeople from owning guns, quitting their jobs, or buying land in the South.
Black Codes
This white militant abolitionist raided a federal arsenal in hopes of arming enslaved Africans.
John Brown
Runaways who joined the Union forces were called __________________.
Contrabands
This popular book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe depicted the tragedies of slave life and drew new supporters to the antislavery cause.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Black regiment that fought at Fort Wagner.
54th Massachusetts Infantry
These laws invalidated southern governments and gave southern Black men the right to vote
Reconstruction Acts
The Reconstruction president after Lincoln who pardoned thousands of Confederates.
Andrew Johnson
Popular vote of the people is called _____________.
Popular Sovereignty