Slavery and Civil WAR
Under the Virginia Slave Code, _____ could not be employed by ______
Whites Blacks
The Compromise of 1850 allowed what?
allowed slavery in the rest of the lands seized from Mexico by popular vote
With the cotton gin, the _____ were then processed into various cotton goods like _____
fibers clothing
The cotton gin did not reduce the need for slaves to ____ and ____ the cotton
grow pick
Someone who is forbidden to quit their service for another person
slave/slavery/enslavement
What replaced indigo as the dominant crop grown by enslaved people in Louisiana?
Sugar
What brought California into the U.S. as a free state?
The Compromise of 1850
An ______ servant is a form of labor, sometimes ______, in which a person who took out a loan agrees to work without salary for the ______ for a specific number of years
Indentured involuntary lender
Was a collection of 11 states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 following the election
The Confederate States of America
The 13th Amendment was passed by Congress on what date?
January 31, 1865
What is a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation?
Jim Crow Laws
The Emancipation ______ freed more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the _____ _____.
Proclimation Confederate States
What did the Virginia Slave Code prohibit blacks from owning regardless of "free" status?
Prohibited them from owning weapons
_____ value all people equally
Quakers
______ was a religious community that believes there is something of ______ in everybody and that each human being is of _____ ____
Quakers God unique worth
The _____ era ended the remnants of Confederate secession and abolished ____, making the newly freed slaves ____.
Reconstruction slavery citizens
What did the Compromise of 1850 require Northerners to do?
Required them to return runaway slaves.
_____ Patrols were organized groups of armed ____ who monitored and ____ discipline upon slaves in _____ states
Slave men discipline Southern
Act that said that no NEW slaves were permitted to be imported into the U.S.
Slave Trade Act of 1807
The _______ States of America was also known as the ______
South
Prohibited slavery north of the 36 degree 30' parallel except for Missouri
The Missouri Compromise
Network of people, both black and white, that offered shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the south
Underground Railroad
The ____ was also known as the North
Union
By the beginning of 1863, the _____ controlled the entire Mississippi River except for the ____ ____ area.
Union Port Hudson
Juneteenth is commemorated on the anniversary date of the June 19, 185 announcement by ____ ____ proclaiming freedom from slavery in _____
Union Army Texas
The _____ Slave Code of 1705 allowed for the ____, _____ trade of slaves.
Virginia legal free
The _____ Slave Code imposed harsh physical _______, since enslaved persons who didn't own property could _____ be required to pay _____
Virginia punishments NOT fines
How did slavery first come to America?
-About 20 Africans that were kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia -They were then bought by the English colonists
Give four reasons why people were typically enslaved.
-They were indebted -They broke the law -They suffered a military defeat -They were forced into slavery
What was the duration of a person's enslavement?
-for life OR -for a fixed period of time after which freedom was granted
The American Civil War resulted in how many casualties (deaths)
1,030,000
Louisiana planters were producing ____ of the worlds _____ sugar supply which made Louisiana one of the _____ states.
1/4 cane richest
Due to the production of cane sugar, the enslaved population soared to ________ people
125,000
What amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. (including former enslaved people)?
14th amendment
What guaranteed all citizens "equal protection of the laws?"
14th amendment
What amendment prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizens race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
15th amendment
Louisiana was not admitted into the U.S. until ____ with the Louisiana _____
1812 Purchase
Jim Crow Laws were enforced until _____
1965
Juneteenth is now celebrated on the ____ of ____ throughout the U.S.
19th June
Eventually, more than _______ African American Louisianans would fight for the U.S. during the Civil War
24,000
By the time of Lincolns inauguration, _____ states had seceded and the ______ States of ____ was established
7 Confederate America
16th president of the U.S. and the first republican to win the presidency in 1860
Abraham Lincoln
The Port Hudson campaign marked one of the first uses of ____ ____ troops in the Union army
African American
The _______ Civil War was a war in the U.S. from 1861-1865.
American
When did slavery first come to North America?
August 20, 1619
The Battle of _____ _____ was when ground and naval battle in the American Civil War fought in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana on August 5, 1862
Baton Rouge
The roots of Jim Crow Laws began as early as 1865 with _____ ____.
Black Codes.
Where did the 20 kidnapped Africans arrive in?
British colony of Virginia
What religion did the Code Noir require owners to instruct their slaves on?
Catholic faith
When the enslaved person is legally made the personal property of the slave owner
Chattel slavery
_____ _____ is also known as an intrastate war between organized groups within the same state or country
Civil War
The first Klan was established in the wake of the ____ ____ and wanted to overthrow the _____ governments in the South by using voter intimidation and targeted violence
Civil War Republican
The American _____ _____ was fought between the northern states that were loyal to the ____ and the southern states that had seceded to form the ______ States of America
Civil War Union Confederate
The ____ Noir forbade slave owners from _____ them or ______ immediate families
Code torturing separating
The ____ ____ was when colonial ____ regulated the slave trade and the ____ of slavery in New France and French _____ colonies in 1724
Code Noir France institution Caribbean
Where would the enslaved set up a market, sing, dance, and play music?
Congo Square
Was a machine that quickly and easily separated cotton fibers from their seeds.
Cotton Gin
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that blacks were not citizens of the U.S. and denied Congress the ability to prohibit slavery in any federal territory
Dredd Scott Case
Was an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 during the Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
Who bought the first slaves that came to North America?
English colonists
Louisiana was founded as a _____ colony
French
The _____ Slave Act said the ____ government was responsible for ____, _____, and _____ escaped slaves
Fugitive Federal finding returning trying
Required slaves to be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state
Fugitive Slave Act
The Cotton _____ enabled much greater productivity than ______ cotton separation in 1793
Gin manual
What is the difference between an indentured servant and a slave?
INDENTURED SERVANT=someone who is working to pay back money/loan for a specific amount of years SLAVE=Someone who is not allowed to quit their service as a slave
In 1688, _____ _____ adopted the first formal ____-______ resolution in American history
Pennsylvania Quakers anti-slavery
Who was the first African in Virginia to be enslaved for life in 1640?
John Punch
Is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the U.S.
Juneteenth
_____ is also called Emancipation Day
Juneteenth
With the _____-_____ Act of 1854, a popular vote of settlers would determine if territories became ____ or ____ states
Kansas-Nebraska free slave
Was an American white supremacist terrorist hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, as well as Jewish people, immigrants, leftists, LGBTQ+, Catholics and Muslims
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
On January 26, 1861, ______ declared that it had seceded from the Union
Louisiana
The _____ free people of color were often literate and _____, owned _____, properties and even slaves.
Louisiana educated businesses
Was used to designate the line that divided the free states from the slave states during the debates in Congress over the Missouri Compromise
Mason-Dixon Line
_______ became the first North American colony to recognize slavery as a legal institution
Massachusetts
______ ____ of _______ Was a document published in 1641 and is the first legal code (laws) established by European colonists.
Massachusetts Body of Liberties
The ______ Compromise admitted _____ as a slave state in exchange for _____.
Missouri Missouri legislation
Besides enslaved Africans and European indentured servants, who did the early Louisiana plantation owners use as labor?
Native Americans
What city had the largest slave market in North America?
New Orleans
______ _____, the largest city in the south, was important as a ____ _____
New Orleans port city
The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the _____ _____ marks a beginning of ____ and a _____ centuries of slavery in North ______.
New World two half America
The Code _____ gave some _____ to slaves
Noir rights
were loyal to the U.S. federal government and included 20 free states and 5 border states
The Union
In Congo Square, what could the enslaved purchase?
They could purchase their freedom.
When the U.S. took over Louisiana, free people of color lost what?
They lost their free status
Why was New Orleans so nationally important during the Code Noir?
They were a slave market and a port. Slaves were shipped upriver to plantations on the Mississippi River
What amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude (except as punishment for a crime) ?
Thirteenth Amendment
The _____ ____ ____ planned early on for the capture of New Orleans
U.S. War Department
In the Compromise of 1850, many northerners refused to return runaway slaves and the _____ _____ became more efficient and daring than ever
Underground Railroad
The Virginia Slave Code allowed for the _______ of suspected runaways
apprehension
Why was New Orleans important as a port city?
because of its location on the Mississippi River and its access to the Gulf of Mexico
Why did the American Civil War begin?
because of unresolved controversy of the enslavement of black people in the southern states
Why was Congo Square started?
because they were not allowed to work on Sundays
In Congo Square, slaves could freely ____ and ____ goods in the square in order to raise money to escape ______
buy sell slavery
personal property is another word for _______
chattel
In the sugar mill, who worked alongside adults?
children
______ growing became so profitable for the planters that it increased their demand for both _____ and _____ labor
cotton land slave
In the Dredd Scott Case, what could black people not be included under?
could not be included and were not intended to be included under the word "citizens"
Goals/Aim of a Civil War -take control of the _____ or a ______ -achieve _____ for a region -change _______ policies
country region independence government
4 reasons people were enslaved -they were ______ -they broke the _____ -they suffered a _____ _____ -they were _____ into it
indebted law military defeat forced
a loan is another word for ______
indenture (indentured servant)
In the sugar mill, children worked under threat of boiling hot _____, open ____, and grinding _____.
kettles furnaces rollers
The life expectancy on the sugar mill plantations was very _____
low
What did the Virginia Slave Code of 1705 establish?
new property rights for slave owners
What did Louisiana plantation owners grow wealth from?
production of indigo
The Compromise of 1850 banned what?
public sale of slaves in Washington D.C.
Under the Dredd Scott Case, black people could not claim any ____ or ____ for citizens in the U.S.
rights privileges
is the state and condition of being a slave
slavery/enslavement
When the U.S. took over Louisiana, free people of color were grouped with _____ and lost certain rights as they became classified as ______
slaves black
The _____ and _____ U.S. began to pull apart culturally and economically, with slavery at the center of the rift
southern northern
What was the slave patrols' function?
to police enslaved persons who escaped or were viewed as defiant
Battles in Louisiana were usually concentrated along the major ____.
waterways
