All Flashcards
What was the Stono Rebellion?
A slave rebellion in 1739 that led to harsher restrictions in South Carolina.
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
Supreme Court case denying citizenship to African Americans and opening territories to slavery.
What did Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution establish?
The Three-Fifths Compromise, counting enslaved people as ⅗ of a person for representation and taxation.
What did Article IV, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution establish?
The Fugitive Slave Clause, requiring the return of escaped enslaved people.
What were key features of the Louisiana Slave Code (Code Noir)?
Expulsion of Jews, mandatory Catholic religious instruction, prohibition of interracial marriage.
What were key provisions of the South Carolina Slave Code of 1740?
Defined slaves as property, required written permission to travel, prohibited teaching slaves to write.
What were the key features of Black Codes?
They were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.
What was the impact of Jim Crow Laws?
They were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
What was the impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."
What was the impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
A United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era to guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury service.
What was the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
What was the impact of the Fair Housing Act of 1968?
Prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Define Three-Fifths Compromise.
Enslaved people counted as 3/5 of a person for representation and taxation.
Define Fugitive Slave Clause.
Required states to return escaped enslaved people to their enslavers.
What are Slave Codes?
Laws defining enslaved people as property and denying basic rights.
Define manumission.
The act of an enslaver freeing their enslaved people.