Slavery and the Early Nation
The compromise that counted enslaved populations for representation and taxation
3/5ths Compromise
The year and country of the Louisiana Purchase
1803/France
The president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
The document that freed enslaved people in Confederate states
Emancipation Proclamation
The Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in schools unconstitutional
Brown v. Board
The writer of the Declaration of Independencet who wrote “all men are created equal” but owned enslaved people
The forced relocation of Native Americans from their lands in the Southeast
Trail of Tears
The formerly enslaved person who became a leading abolitionist, orator and advisor to Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
Lincoln’s goal to reunite the country after the war
Reconstruction
The name for students who integrated Central High School in Arkansas
Little Rock 9
The Southern economic system based on enslaved labor and large farms
Plantations/Plantation Economy
The compromise that maintained balance between free and slave states
Missouri Compromise
The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel that exposed the cruelty of slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The amendments that ended slavery, granted citizenship, and gave voting rights
13th-15th amendments
The 1964 law banning segregation and job discrimination
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The group of people who worked to end slavery in the United States
Abolitionists
The violent event caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
The journalist and muckraker who bit the arm of a train conductor when he removed her from a “Whites Only” train car in Tennessee
Ida B. Wells
The organization that helped freed people with food, education, and aid during Reconstruction
Freedmen’s Bureau
The 1965 law that ended literacy tests and poll taxes
Voting Rights Act
The growing conflict between North and South over slavery
Sectionalism
The 1850 law that required citizens to return escaped enslaved people
Fugitive Slave Act
The Founding Father who became a lifelong abolitionist and president of an antislavery society
Benjamin Franklin
The system of laws that limited Black rights after Reconstruction
Jim Crow Laws
The cultural movement celebrating Black art, pride, and expression in the 1920s
Harlem Renaissance