Unit 3: Freedom & Equality

Indentured Servitude

a type of work in which a person is contracted to work without pay for a specific number of years

Chattel Slavery

 form of slavery where a person was enslaved for life and the life of their off spring 

Racial Bribe

 extended special privileges to poor whites in an effort to drive a wedge between them and enslaved black people

Abolition

A multiracial social and political campaign in the 18th century which goal was to end slavery

Sectionalism

The separation of the north and south of the united states due to the conflicted opinions that each region had toward each other

One of the causes of Civil War

The contrasting opinions of Abraham Lincoln and Breckinridge is only one of reasons that have contributed to tension between the north and south of the united states

Dred Scott V. Sanford

1857: Declared African Americans were not citizens and had no legal standing

Civil War

The large conflict between the north and the south primarily about the abolition of slavery

Reconstruction

a period (post-civil war) from 1865 - 1877 where the United States was trying to ensure Black people of civil rights

Radical Reconstruction

1867-1877: When Republicans (who were the good guys at the time) attempted to rebuild the South by enforcing civil rights for African Americans

13th Amendment

The agreement to abolish slavery across the United States

14th Amendment

The agreement that people born in the United States are citizens of the United States

15th Amendment

The agreement to give only black men the right to vote (not women)

Jim Crow

19th-century laws to promote the separation of black and white people

Plessy V. Ferguson

1896: the case in which proved that segregating people by race was acceptable

Civil Rights Movement

The social and political effort to end the discrimination against African Americans

Brown V. Board of Education

1854: By declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional