Fifth Set Flashcards
15th Amendment
Prohibited voting discrimination based on race, color, or previous servitude.
Gabriel’s Rebellion
Gabriel and a bunch of other enslaved men attacking Richmond in Virginia
Effect: Virginia restricted the rights of Black ppl, outlawing edu, restricting movement, and requiring free Blacks to leave within 12 months or be enslaved again
American System
The federal gov’t and states invested in improvements to address transporation in the large territory of the US, especially the Erie Canal and railroads
Coverture
The custom that counted married couples as a single unit represented by the husbamd.
Factory Girls Association
An early labor organizastion formed by female textile workers in Lowell, Massachussets.
- Organized strikes
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Raised the stakes of abolitionism
- harshly penalized officials who failed to arrest runaways and private citizens who tried to help the runaways
(Made American anti-slavery a violent period)
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Combined force migration, indian reservations, and Federal land sales in a comprehensive disposession and redistribution policy leading to the trail of tears and 2nd seminole war
- Allowed the federal government to survey, divide, and auction off millions of acres of land
Frederick Douglass/Harriet Tubman/Sojourner Truth
Abolitionist leadership figures
A reformer who created an autobiography and earned supporters across the Atlantic.
- Assisted in the abolitionist movement and his sucess contributed to the moral among abolitionists.
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- Joined Douglass in rousing supporters for anti-slavery
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Was a famous “conductor” on the Underground railroad leaving many enslaved people to freedom in the North
Prigg v Pennsylvania
Indicated to abolitionists that the issue of slavery could not be deferred indefinitely and that the Federal gov’t was pro-slavery** (Fed Gov. only served southern enslavers and ignored the rights of states North)**
- Fed gov. Futigive Slave Act trumped Pennsylvania’s personal liberty law
What is the term for the agreement that made Rutherford B. Hayes President, withdrew Federal troops from the South and effectively ended Reconstruction?
The Compromise of 1877
What is the name for the power Marbury v Madison decision created for the Supreme Court?
Judical Review