Important Names
A signer of the Declaration of Independence and antislavery writer.
Who was Benjamin Rush?
They were groups devoted to the end of slavery.
Who were antislavery societies?
The Constitution guaranteed that slavery could continue for this many years.
What is 20?
AME grew out of a church founded by him in 1787.
Who was Richard Allen?
Formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution).
What is abolish?
A Protestant leader from Philadelphia who was active in the fight against slavery.
Who was Anthony Benezet?
Slavery was banned in Massachusetts in this year
What is 1783?
The states finally ratified, or approved, the Constitution in this year.
What is 1790?
The earliest African American church was started in Silver Bluff, SC around 1773.
What is 1773?
In the 1780s, these states did not ban slavery.
What are southern states?
The first known African American poet.
Who was Lucy Terry?
Most enslaved people were Christians by late in this century.
What are the 1700s?
Delegates from the states met for the Constitutional Convention in this year.
What is 1787?
The Gullah people still speak a creole language in South Carolina and this state.
What is Georgia?
Virginia and this state made new laws that made emancipating enslaved people easier for slaveholders.
What is North Carolina?
The first African American poet to have her works published.
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
The process of being freed from bondage.
What is emancipation?
It stated that every five enslaved people in a state would be counted as three people.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
A group of people working together to advance their shared political, social, or artistic ideas.
What is movement?
They formed the first anti-slavery societies.
Who are Quakers?
He is best known for surveying the location of the capital in the late 1700s, Washington, D.C.
Who was Benjamin Banneker?
This was the only major American city that contained an entirely free African American population.
What is Boston?
African Americans who were not enslaved.
Who were Free Blacks?
Slavery had essentially been abolished in the North by this year.
What is 1800?
This was the prohibition of slavery in the territories to the north and west of the Ohio River.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?