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Missouri Compromise

• This compromise divided the north and south of the United States into free states and slave states.

• Also prevented the expansion of Slavery using a line on the map of U.S>

Compromise of 1850

This compromise created new territories that were freely able to vote to be free or slave states, and also allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.

Emancipation Proclamation

This document ended slavery in the south, but only according to the Union! The Confederacy was unlikely to follow this policy. It also allowed African-Americans to join the military.

Jefferson Davis

The President of the Confederate States of America

The Bread Riots

This public outcry due to starvation in the Confederacy contributed to the eventual collapse of the CSA (The Confederate States of America).

Segregation

The practice of separating people based on race/ethnicity, religion, or any other factor.

The Fugitive Slave Acts...

Allowed Southerners to travel north to recapture formerly enslaved people.

The Ku Klux Klan

This group terrorized the south during reconstruction, burning down school houses, attacking African-Americans and their allies, and causing mayhem.

13th Amendment

This Amendment to the constitution abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime.

Jim Crow

A derogatory caricature of African-Americans that was used to describe the laws that were put in place in the south to restrict them.

Miscegenation

A negative term used during reconstruction to describe people of different racial/ethnic groups having relationships or children together.

Frederick Douglass

This abolitionist was a formerly enslaved man, and spoke passionately and eloquently about abolishing slavery using his own experiences.

Malcolm X

A civil rights leader and spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He later left the organization due to some disagreements with their leaders.

Jesse Jackson

He formed the “rainbow coalition”, a group of underrepresented people in the United States, and ran for president with their support.

Jesse Owens

He competed in the olympics in Germany immediately before the start of WW2. He proved that African-Americans were not inferior to Aryan Germans.

Hiram Revels

The first African-American man to serve in US Congress. He didn’t manage to complete his full term in office.

Brown V. Board of Education

The Supreme Court Case that determined that school segregation was unconstitutional and unequal.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

One of the most renowned Civil Rights leaders. He was a baptist minister, and participated in the SCLC, organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington, and many other protests.

Ruby Bridges

One of the first children to help integrate a segregated school. Along with the little rock 9, she was on the front lines in the fight to desegregate schools.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Under this president, both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were passed. He was also one of the causes of the “Party Switch”.

Lowndes County Freedom Organization

An organization founded by Stokely Carmichael that was intended to be a political party for African-Americans

Pan-Africa

A movement to create connections between African-Diasporas across the world.

Reactionary

A political belief that advocates for a return to the way things were at some point in the past, which they believe was a better time.

Racial Supremacy

The belief that a particular racial/ethnic group is greater in some way than other groups of people.

Satyagraha

A sanskrit word meaning “Truth Force”. It is used to describe Gandhi's particular strategy of nonviolent resistance.

Contraband

Illegal materials or property, which is typically held or confiscated by legal authorities when discovered.

CORE

The Civil Rights group that organized the Freedom Rides: a series of trips from north to south on interstate busing made by a diverse group of activists.