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First African American slaves arrive in the colony of Virginia.
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An African domestic in the colonies, and a well-known colonial poet. Her poetry was ornate and elaborate.
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Salves were considered 3/5 of a person when determining the state population.
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These laws provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners. The North looked at these laws loosely which irritaed the South.
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Eli Whitney created the cotton gin which increased the need for slaves.
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Planned a slave revolt which was delayed by a flood. The revolt was stopped by a slave owner who found out about it and 25 men were hung.
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Also known as the Compromise of 1820, this admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Declared all territory north of 36-30" latitude would become free states, and all territory south of the line would become slave states.
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An abolitionist who created The Liberator, a militant weekly abolitionist newspaper.
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A slave uprising that killed 60 whites in South Hampton, Virginia. This lead to a man hunt in which 100 blacks were killed. This resulted in strengthened fugitive slave laws.
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Her given name was Isabelle Baumfree. She was the first black woman orator to speak out against slavery.
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A self-educated slave who was an abolitionist speaker. He edited an anti-slavery weekly, the North Star.
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A secret, shifting network which aided slaves escaping to the North and Canada. (Not really undergound)
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A former escaped slave, she was a conductor of the Underground Railroad. She led 300 alaves to freedom.
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Admission of Califronia as a free state. Organized Utah and New Mexico without restrictions on slavery. Abolition of slave trade in District of Columbia, and tougher fugitive slave laws.
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She wrote a book: "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This revealed the life of a slave to the North, starting the Civil War.
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Popular soverienty would determine whether Kansas and Nebraska would be a slave state or a free state,
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John Brown led men to kill five pro-slavery men helping to begin the kansas Border Issue.
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Dred Scott was sued for his freedom. This was taken to the US Supreme Court which decided that he could not sue because he was property and not a federal citizen.
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John Brown seised the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. He planned to end slavery by massacring slave owners and freeing their slaves.
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Had the issues of slavery. Abraham Lincoln, Stephan A. Douglas, John Bell, John C. Brechenridge ran for this election.
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This proposed an amendment to that would look at slavery under the 36-30 line, keep congress out of slavery, and compensation for the owners of fugitive slaves would be issued.
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In the states that seceded, Lincoln proposed to free all of the slaves. This happened after the battle of Antietam even though Linciln had no power to enforce this law.
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The bordering states of the Confederacy, Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, decided not to secede from the Union.
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This amendement abolished slavery.
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Freedom was restricted to the former slaves. This contradicted the 13th Amendment.
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Organization that was propsed to help former slaves transition into the life of freedom.
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Sharecropping was system that was abused and the slaves were taken advantage of. Sharecropping allows a tenant farmer to use land for a share of the crops in return.
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This was group communist group founded to terrorize freed slaves.
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This amendment granted full citizenship to former slaves, immigrants, and naturalized Americans.
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This amendment stated that no one could be denied teh right to vote based on race, color, or having been a slave.
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A black edecator that founded Tuskegee Institute. He wanted blacks to further their education to reach social and economic equality.
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She was a socialist, suffragist, and civil rights activist that supported anti-lynching. She was a journalist of her time.
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A speech given in the south about how it wanted to change it's ways and eliminate racism. This speech was given by Henry Grady.
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Court case ruled that equal segregated facilities were constitutional.
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He was a black chemist who discovered many uses for peanuts. Like Booker T. Washington, he beleived that the social and economic status of blacks could be improved by education.
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A set of laws created for blacks in the south which included prevention of voting and segregated facilities.
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It ruled that literacy tests and poll taxes were legal. These requirements took away black's rights to vote.
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Advocate for black nationalism and financial independence. He started the "Back to Africa" movement because he believed that blacks would not receive justice in mostly white nations.
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Black writers, musicians, and intellectuals gathered around Harlem, New York.
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African American humorous writer of poems, stories, and essays.
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Most prominent civil rights activist in his time. He was known for his speeches and was assassinated in 1968.
