Unit 8 Vocab

Question 1

Dred Scott

Answer 1

Case in which a slave sues for freedom based on living in free territory

Question 2

13th Amendment

Answer 2

Bans slavery in the US except in cases of imprisonment

Question 3

14th amendment

Answer 3

Establishes citizenship for African Americans

Question 4

15th amendment

Answer 4

Universal manhood suffrage. All men can vote.

Question 5

Black codes

Answer 5

Laws that limit the freedom of African Americans

Question 6

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 6

Court case establishing separate but equal involving seating on a railway car.

Question 7

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 7

Laws that legalize segregation

Question 8

Disenfranchisement

Answer 8

Limiting, disallowing or forbidding someone’s right to vote

Question 9

Reconstruction

Answer 9

Period of social, political and cultural change following the civil war

Question 10

gag rule

Answer 10

a series of rules that forbade the raising, consideration, or discussion of slavery in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844