African American History 3 Flashcards
arrested for planning a slave rebellion in south
Denmark Vesey
Leads slave rebellion in Southampton,Virginia killing at least 57 whites
Nat Turner
Founds the Liberator; first abolitionist newspaper in the United States
William Lloyd Garrison
Founded in Ohio it admits African American men, black women and white women. By 1860 one third of its students were black.
Oberlin college
Prohibits congress from considering petitions regarding slavery
The Gag Rule
American vessels tow the Spanish ship the Amistad and its 53 slaves into New London, Connecticut. Fate is decided by US Supreme Court
United States v. The Amistad
Published The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Missouri abolitionist file lawsuit on behalf of ____ to gain his freedom
Dred Scott
Mexico cedes California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah and gives up claim to Texas at conclusion of War in exchange for $20 million
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Frederick Douglass is among the handful of men who attend the first _____ at Seneca Falls, New York
Women’s Rights convention
Most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Revisits the issue of slavery; allowed passage of a much stricter Fugitive Slave Law
The Compromise of 1850
First African American to receive a patent from the United States government;
Developed process for dry cleaning clothes
Thomas Jennings
Sojourner Truth delivers what famous speech at the women’s right convention, Akron, Ohio on May 29.
Aren’t I a Woman
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes this novel
Uncle Toms Cabin
Debuts at the metropolitan opera in New York City and performs before Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace a year later
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (the Black Swan)
Repeals Missouri compromise and permits admission of Kansas and Nebraska territories to the union after their populations decide on
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Outgrowth of the controversy over the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Seen as a preview to the US civil war
Bleeding Kansas
Enslaves free blacks who refuse to leave the state
Arkansas
Leads twenty men in unsuccessful attempt to seize the Federal Armory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) to inspire a servile insurrection
John Brown
200,000 blacks serve in Union armed forces and over 20,000 killed in combat
The civil war
Legally frees slaves in areas of South still in rebellion against the United States
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
Continue for four days. 100 city residents killed. Highest death toll in any urban conflict in the 19th or 20th centuries
The New York City draft riots
First officially recognized all-black military unit in the union army. William H. Carney becomes first African American to receive Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery under fire
Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteers
Takes place in west Tennessee on April 12
The Fort Pillow Massacre
Outlaws slavery
13th amendment
Provides health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated salves
Freedmen’s Bureau
Passed by a number of so called ex-confederate states between September and November
Black Codes
Formed on December 24th in Pulaski, Tennessee by 6 educated, middle class former confederate veterans including Nathan Bedford Forrest
Ku klux klan
Guarantees due process and equal protection under law to all citizens. Also grants citizenship to African Americans
14th amendment
First and only units in which black soldiers can serve until the Spanish American war
Buffalo Soldiers
Guaranteed African American males right to vote
15th amendment
Rules that due process clause of the 14th amendment protects national, not state, citizenship
Slaughterhouse cases
First African American to serve a full 6 year term as senator
Blanche Kelso Bruce
Aka Wormley House Compromise. Arrangement worked out in January that ends reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
