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This abolitionist, known as "Moses," led enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This group used violence and terror during Reconstruction to stop Black Americans from taking part in society.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, this document declared enslaved people in Confederate states “forever free.”
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the “separate but equal” doctrine, legally allowing racial segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This holiday, celebrated on July 4th, commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
What is Independence Day?
Known as the "Father of the Constitution," this Founding Father helped write the Federalist Papers and served as the 4th President of the United States.
Who is James Madison?
Founded in 1865, this federal agency helped enslaved people by providing food, education, and legal assistance.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This amendment, ratified in 1865, officially abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be U.S. citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
What group are Western cowboys influenced by?
Who are the Mexican Vaqueros?
Who is Captain John Parker?
These laws, passed by Southern states right after the Civil War, restricted the freedom and movement of newly freed African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This former enslaved man became a leading abolitionist, author, and speaker, advocating for emancipation and advising President Lincoln during the Civil War.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This Supreme Court case in 1954 overturned “separate but equal” in public schools, declaring segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
She was a sculptor during the Harlem Renaissance, known for works like “The Harp” and advocating for African American art.
Who is Augusta Savage?
She was a female journalist who wrote about anti-lynching and co-founded the NAACP
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This 1863 plan proposed that a Confederate state could rejoin the Union once 10% of its 1860 voters pledged loyalty and accepted emancipation.
What is Lincoln’s 10% Plan?
This holiday marks the day Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Texas in 1865 to enforce the freedom of enslaved people.
What is Juneteenth?
This 1870 law was passed to enforce the 15th Amendment, aimed at protecting African Americans’ right to vote.
What is the Enforcement Act / Ku Klux Klan Act?
Written by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson, this song is often called the “Black national anthem.”
What is Lift Every Voice and Sing?
He began the Niagara Movement and is one of the founders of the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Supreme Court decision of 1873 that narrowed the protections of the 14th Amendment by ruling that most civil rights were under state, not federal, authority.
What are the Slaughterhouse Cases?
Although it initially redistributed land to freedmen, this order was later revoked by President Andrew Johnson.
What is Special Field Orders No. 15?
This 1850 law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers, even from free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This brightly colored, handwoven fabric from West Africa, often worn during celebrations and ceremonies, symbolizes African heritage and pride.
What is kente cloth?