Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
This 1820 compromise drew a geographic line across new U.S. territories to help settle arguments over whether slavery would expand westward, it also brought Missouri and Maine into the US as states.
What is the Missouri Compromise
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court denied Scott's case primarily because they ruled this group could not bring lawsuits in federal court.
Who are enslaved black people, they weren't considered citizens.
This side of the war had more people, factories, and railroads—major advantages at the start of the war.
What is the Union, or North
The 13th Amendment is considered an economic change in the South because it did what?
What is Abolished slavery/ forced former slave owners to develop new labor systems (sharecropping).
Why does Frederick Douglass believe the 4th of July to be a hypocritical celebration? What does it highlight about black and white society?
What is demonstrates the huge distance between black and white experiences and slaves oppression.
Under the system of Chattel Slavery, enslaved black Americans were not treated as human beings but rather as...
What is property.
As the U.S. expanded westward, this political issue dominated debates in Congress as each new state was added.
What is keeping a balance of power between Free and Slave states.
This side of the war's familiarity with the landscape helped its armies despite having fewer factories and railroads.
What is the Confederacy (The South)
The 15th Amendment is best understood as a political change in the United States because it did what?
What is gave Black Men the right to vote?
Douglass used metaphors of “fire,” “storm,” and “whirlwind” to argue that ending slavery required what kind of action?
What is forceful and immediate.
Why did most enslaved people avoid large-scale, violent uprisings against slave owners?
What is it typically made life worse for slaves worse when they failed.
This was the central reason Southern leaders chose to leave the Union in the early 1860s.
What is they believed that the federal government wouldn't protect slavery after Lincoln became president.
The Emancipation Proclamation shifted the Union’s war aims and inspired this group of Americans to enlist in the army in large numbers.
Who are freed Black Americans (former slaves)
This organization formed in response to Black political and economic progress, using terror to reverse that progress.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
This other historical figure we covered in class would most likely support Douglass's calls for immediate action on slavery.
Who is Harriett Tubman or John Brown.
What were ways in which slaves DID resist slavery on a regular basis?
What is running away, practicing religion, learning to read and write, having families, stopping work, etc.
Before 1862, Lincoln downplayed any intent to free enslaved people because he wanted to avoid losing support from these strategically important slaveholding states. (what do we call this group of states).
What are the Border States (Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland)
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in all areas that were currently in rebellion to the United States. In what way was the Proclamation limited?
What is didn't free slaves in the border states?
The main purpose of the KKK’s violence during Reconstruction was to create and sow what within black communities?
What is fear and terror?
While running for president, Lincoln didn't advocate for abolishing slavery, but rather what about slavery?
What is preventing its expansion into new states and territories?
Frederick Douglass claimed that the Declaration of Independence was hypocritical. What did he mean by this?
What is the ideals listed in the Declaration didn't apply to enslaved people.
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address attempted to calm Southern fears by promising he would not interfere with slavery in states where it already existed. What was his primary goal at that moment?
What is Preserving or keeping the Union together?
This major effect of the Civil War redefined citizenship by granting it to all people born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution?
These laws severely limited black Americans movements, ability to assemble in public, and undid many of their gains and new rights they experienced immediately following the War.
What are Black Codes/ Jim Crow laws.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Lincoln's primary goal was what?
What is keeping the Union together at all costs?