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a prominent escaped slave who became a powerful abolitionist orator, known for his impactful speeches detailing his experiences under slavery and advocating for immediate abolition
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This treaty ended the U.S.'s war with Mexico by expanding U.S. borders to the Pacific coast, annexing more than half a million square miles of Mexican territory
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This amendment would abolish slavery in the U.S.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This amendment established birthright and naturalized citizenship for all races and ensured that the rights listed in the Bill of Rights apply to all citizens regardless of race
What is the 14th amendment?
This amendment prohibits the federal government and states from denying a citizen's right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th amendment
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel that popularized the abolitionist position
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
_______________ was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Dred Scott case, decision, etc.
The use of ___________ helped the Union army to mobilize and provided easier connection among Union territory
What is trains, rail roads, etc.
The ________________ was a U.S. government agency that provided assistance to formerly enslaved people and impoverished whites in the years following the Civil War
What is Freedmen's Bureau
A radical domestic terrorist organization that maintained a great deal of social and political influence in the South during and after the Reconstruction
What is the KKK
a federal law that mandated the return of escaped slaves to their owners, even if they were caught in a free state, and required citizens to assist in capturing runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
a series of five laws passed in September 1850 that attempted to resolve the issue of slavery in new territories acquired after the Mexican-American War
What is the Compromise of 1850?
a presidential executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War, which declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states then in rebellion against the Union were to be freed
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This party thought the goals of the Reconstruction had been achieved and thus turned their backs on newly freed African Americans in the South
Who are Liberal Republicans?
laws passed in the Southern United States after the Civil War to limit the rights of formerly enslaved people.
What were the Black Codes
The abolitionist strategy that sought to end slavery by persuading both slaveowners and complicit northerners that the institution was evil in a non-violent manner.
What is Moral Suasion?
the political concept that the residents of a territory should decide for themselves whether to allow slavery when applying for statehood
What is popular sovereignty
This Civil War battle was considered to be a military turning point for the Union army
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Which act in Congress created new state governments and provided for Black male suffrage in the South, thus beginning Radical Reconstruction in March 1867?
What is the Reconstruction Act?
a series of laws passed by the US Congress between 1870 and 1871, designed to protect the civil rights of African Americans, often in response to widespread violence and intimidation against Black citizens in the South following the Civil War
What are the the Enforcement Acts?
a piece of legislation proposed during the Civil War which outlined a strict plan for Reconstruction of the Confederate states, requiring a majority of white males in each state to take a loyalty oath before being allowed to participate in forming a new government, effectively pushing for harsher conditions for the South to rejoin the Union compared to President Lincoln's plan
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
The _______________ was a law that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories, repealed the Missouri Compromise, and allowed for popular sovereignty
__________________ was a political and economic strategy used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War to gain support from European nations
What is King Cotton Diplomacy
The ___________ were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy.
What were the "Redeemers"
a period of violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in the Kansas Territory during the mid-1850s, primarily following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?