African American History 3

Question 1

arrested for planning a slave rebellion in south

Answer 1

Denmark Vesey

Question 2

Leads slave rebellion in Southampton,Virginia killing at least 57 whites

Answer 2

Nat Turner

Question 3

Founds the Liberator; first abolitionist newspaper in the United States

Answer 3

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 4

Founded in Ohio it admits African American men, black women and white women. By 1860 one third of its students were black.

Answer 4

Oberlin college

Question 5

Prohibits congress from considering petitions regarding slavery

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The Gag Rule

Question 6

American vessels tow the Spanish ship the Amistad and its 53 slaves into New London, Connecticut. Fate is decided by US Supreme Court

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United States v. The Amistad

Question 7

Published The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Answer 7

Frederick Douglass

Question 8

Missouri abolitionist file lawsuit on behalf of ____ to gain his freedom

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Dred Scott

Question 9

Mexico cedes California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah and gives up claim to Texas at conclusion of War in exchange for $20 million

Answer 9

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 10

Frederick Douglass is among the handful of men who attend the first _____ at Seneca Falls, New York

Answer 10

Women’s Rights convention

Question 11

Most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad

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Harriet Tubman

Question 12

Revisits the issue of slavery; allowed passage of a much stricter Fugitive Slave Law

Answer 12

The Compromise of 1850

Question 13

First African American to receive a patent from the United States government;
Developed process for dry cleaning clothes

Answer 13

Thomas Jennings

Question 14

Sojourner Truth delivers what famous speech at the women’s right convention, Akron, Ohio on May 29.

Answer 14

Aren’t I a Woman

Question 15

Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes this novel

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Uncle Toms Cabin

Question 16

Debuts at the metropolitan opera in New York City and performs before Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace a year later

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Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (the Black Swan)

Question 17

Repeals Missouri compromise and permits admission of Kansas and Nebraska territories to the union after their populations decide on

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 18

Outgrowth of the controversy over the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Seen as a preview to the US civil war

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Bleeding Kansas

Question 19

Enslaves free blacks who refuse to leave the state

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Arkansas

Question 20

Leads twenty men in unsuccessful attempt to seize the Federal Armory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) to inspire a servile insurrection

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John Brown

Question 21

200,000 blacks serve in Union armed forces and over 20,000 killed in combat

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The civil war

Question 22

Legally frees slaves in areas of South still in rebellion against the United States

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Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

Question 23

Continue for four days. 100 city residents killed. Highest death toll in any urban conflict in the 19th or 20th centuries

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The New York City draft riots

Question 24

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

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Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteers

Question 25

Takes place in west Tennessee on April 12

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The Fort Pillow Massacre

Question 26

Outlaws slavery

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13th amendment

Question 27

Provides health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated salves

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Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 28

Passed by a number of so called ex-confederate states between September and November

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Black Codes

Question 29

Formed on December 24th in Pulaski, Tennessee by 6 educated, middle class former confederate veterans including Nathan Bedford Forrest

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Ku klux klan

Question 30

Guarantees due process and equal protection under law to all citizens. Also grants citizenship to African Americans

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14th amendment

Question 31

First and only units in which black soldiers can serve until the Spanish American war

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Buffalo Soldiers

Question 32

Guaranteed African American males right to vote

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15th amendment

Question 33

Rules that due process clause of the 14th amendment protects national, not state, citizenship

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Slaughterhouse cases

Question 34

First African American to serve a full 6 year term as senator

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Blanche Kelso Bruce

Question 35

Aka Wormley House Compromise. Arrangement worked out in January that ends reconstruction

Answer 35

Compromise of 1877