Rights & Equality Review

Constitutional Compromises & Civil War

100

This declared enslaved people in the rebelling states free

What is the Emancipation Proclamation

200

This state was the first to leave the Union

What is South Carolina

300

This counted 3 out of every 5 enslaved people for representation

What is the 3/5th Compromise

400

This early form of government established one branch of government, with one house being Congress, and established strong state governments with a weak federal government 

What are the Articles of Confederation 

500

This established our Congress as we know it today, with the House based on population and the Senate based on equal representation

What is the Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)

Antebellum Slavery

100

A secret network of people, routes, & safe houses for escaped enslaved people

What is the Underground Railroad

200

Resulted in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and created conflict over the expansion of slavery in the Southwest

What is Mexican Cession

300

Stated that African Americans were not citizens, enslaved people = property, Congress has no power to ban slavery, and established property rights > human rights

What is Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

400

Admitted CA as a free state and introduced popular sovereignty for the Utah and New Mexico territories 

What is the Compromise of 1850

500

Required all citizens to assist in escapee captures and denied enslaved people the right to a jury trial

What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Reconstruction

100

This amendment abolished slavery, EXCEPT for criminal punishment

What is the 13th Amendment

200

This amendment prohibits all governments from denying a citizen the right to vote = all male suffrage 

What is the 15th Amendment 

300

This amendment granted citizenship to all born/naturalized, including formerly enslaved people

What is the 14th Amendment 

400

This Reconstruction Plan's goal was to extend all rights/privileges of citizenship to freed Black Americans & believed the Confederates should be punished 

What is the Radical plan

500

This gave Republicans the presidency IF they no longer supported Southern Republicans, built the Southern Transcontinental Railroad, and removed federal troops in the South, ending Reconstuction

What is the Corrupt Bargain of 1877

Progress & Resistance

100

The movement of over 1.6 million Black Americans out of the rural South to urban areas in the North, Northwest, Midwest, and West

What is the Great Migration 

200

A cultural and artistic movement that challenged racist stereotypes

What is the Harlem Renaissance

300

Consists of factory jobs, higher wages, hope for less racism, and WWI labor needs

What are pull factors 

400

Segregation enforced by law that occurs in the South via Jim Crow laws

What is De Jure 

500

A wave of racial violence and race riots across the U.S. that resulted in over 500 injuries and over 250 Black deaths, which revealed the limits on progress

What is the Red Summer of 1919

Civil Rights

100

A 14-year-old boy from Chicago that gets brutaly kidnapped, tortured, and killed by a white woman's family, and whose open-casket funeral will shock the nation 

Who is Emmett Till (1954)

200

The event where Rosa Parks was arrested for protesting segregation, African Americans protested, MLK came on the scene, and SCOTUS would rule that segregation is unconstitutional due to this protest.

What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956)

300

SCOTUS rules that segregation in public schooling is unconstitutional and that "separate but equal" is inherently unequal

What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

400

This was an early Supreme Court case that challenged segregation and established the "separate but equal" clause

What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

500

The event where Alabama state troopers attacked marchers, hospitalizing 80 people 

What is Bloody Sunday