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What was the Stono Rebellion?
A 1739 slave rebellion in South Carolina that led to harsher restrictions on enslaved people.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Federal legislation that balanced desires of northern states to prevent slavery's expansion and Southern states wanting to expand it.
What was the impact of the 1740 South Carolina Slave Code?
It prohibited literacy, banned gatherings, outlawed weapon possession, and condemned enslaved people to death for self-defense.
What was the impact of the Dred Scott decision?
Denied citizenship to African Americans, codified their inferior legal status, and invalidated the Missouri Compromise.
What was the impact of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Made any U.S. marshal or other official who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave liable to a fine of $1,000.
What was the impact of the Haitian Revolution?
It was a successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection by self-liberated slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue.
What was the impact of the Nat Turner's Rebellion?
It was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, during August 1831.
What was the impact of the Denmark Vesey conspiracy?
It was an alleged large-scale slave revolt planned in 1822 in Charleston, South Carolina.
What was the impact of the Somerset v Stewart case?
A ruling by the English Court of King's Bench in 1772, which held that slavery was unsupported by common law in England and Wales.
What was the impact of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
It prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory.
What did the Louisiana Slave Code (Code Noir) of 1724 entail?
Expulsion of Jews, mandatory Catholic religious instruction, forbade interracial marriage.
What were key provisions of the South Carolina Slave Code of 1740?
Defined slaves as property, restricted travel, prohibited teaching slaves to write.
How do the Louisiana Slave Code and South Carolina Slave Code compare?
Louisiana: Focused on religious control and expulsion of Jews. South Carolina: Focused on restricting movement, literacy, and assembly.
Compare the Three-Fifths Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Clause.
Three-Fifths: Increased political power of slave states. Fugitive Slave Clause: Made the entire nation complicit in slavery.
Compare De jure segregation and De facto segregation.
De jure segregation: segregation by law. De facto segregation: segregation by custom or practice.
Compare Assimilation and Accommodation.
Assimilation: the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. Accommodation: mutual adjustment between persons or groups, especially in order to remove conflict.
Compare Civil Disobedience and armed resistance.
Civil Disobedience: nonviolent resistance to unjust laws. Armed resistance: using violence to fight against oppression.
Compare Booker T. Washington's and W.E.B. Du Bois's approaches to racial uplift.
Washington: vocational training and economic self-reliance. Du Bois: higher education and fighting for civil rights.
Compare the NAACP and the Black Panther Party.
NAACP: legal and political action for civil rights. Black Panther Party: Black power, community programs, and self-defense.
Compare the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement.
Civil Rights Movement: integration and equality through nonviolence. Black Power Movement: Black pride, self-determination, and empowerment.
Compare Affirmative Action and Reparations.
Affirmative Action: policies to address past and present discrimination. Reparations: compensation for past injustices.
Compare Individual Racism and Systemic Racism.
Individual Racism: prejudice or discrimination based on race by an individual. Systemic Racism: policies and practices that perpetuate racial inequality.