Vocab
restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces
black codes
Who used the courts to try and gain his freedom:
Nat Turner or Dred Scott
Dred Scott
Which quote in the "Declaration of Independence" was not accurate in how life really was?
"All men are created equal"
KCYRO
Rocky
VEENS
Seven
time following Civil War - Confederate states under control of federal government; granting new rights to African Americans
Reconstruction
Which amendment said that all African Americans had the right to vote?
15th Amendment
What state was added along with Missouri to balance the ratio of free and slave states?
Maine
ROFGA
Fargo
LELIUTARTOA
Ratatouille
abolitionist
Why was slavery considered 'necessary'?
Southern states needed slavery for their plantations
What methods did abolitionists try to use to convince lawmakers that slavery was wrong?
meetings, speeches, pamphlets, conventions, etc
NELIA
Alien
RATODLAGI
Gladiator
required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
Fugitive Slave Act
Even though African Americans were granted the right to vote, the black codes said that in order to vote, you had to do two things: Name them
pay a poll tax
pass a literacy test
In the Dred Scott case, he lived in Missouri (a slave state). Why did he feel he should be granted his freedom?
After his owner died, he was living in free territory at the time.
ADSOFOLGLE
Goodfellas
CATTIIN
Titanic
mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s
Jim Crow laws
What does it mean to be 'Grandfathered' in?
You could vote if your Grandfather could vote
The Separate Car Act was challenged in court by what case?
Plessy v. Ferguson
SEGEAR
Grease
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