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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.
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.
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.