Civil Rights

Civil Rights

Civil Rights

the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

Middle Passage

horrific journey Africans were forced to take across atlantic under inhumane conditions

The Cotton Gin

Mechanically takes the seeds out of cotton in 1793 and started planting more cotton and plantations grow and slave labor increased

Underground Railroad

Network of people offering escaped enslaved people help and shelter on their journey to freedom.

William Still

Underground railroad stationmaster and kept records

Harriet Tubman

Underground railroad conductor who helped hundreds to freedom

Frederick Douglass

Escaped slavery to become abolitionist leader making abolitionist writings and speeches

Dred Scott v. Sandford

1857 - He sued for his freedom, but Supreme Court said he couldn’t sue because Black people were not  citizens.

Fugitive Slave Acts

laws that allowed the capture and return of runaway enslaved people within the territory of the United States

Ned Turner

Rebelled and killed the slaveholder, family, and neighbors. Blamed rebellion on his education so VA passed law against educating African Americans

secede

break away

cash crop

sold crops for money

Atlantic Slave Trade/Triangular trade

transporting raw materials, goods, and enslaved people taken

abolitionist

someone fighting to end slavery

How did people fight against slavery?

court system, violent revolt, guiding slaves to safety, abolitionist writings and speeches

What were some strategies of the Underground Railroad?

timing, disguises, codes, secret pathways, safehouses, buying freedom

How did the north benefit from slavery?

used the cotton, gave loans to plantation owners, sold insurance policies to slaveholders

3/5 compromise

When calculating the population size out of every five slaves only three will counted giving more power to the states with more slaves

How did the Constitution fail to address slavery?

3/5 compromise, congress had to wait till 1808 (20 years) before making laws banning the import of slaves, slaves who escaped to somewhere slavery was illegal were not free and had to be returned if owner claimed them