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African American History
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History
Undergraduate 2
08/18/2010

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Term

 

Lincolns 10% Plan

Definition
  • once 1/10 of a state's population was eligible to vote the state could reapply for admission to the union
  • general amnesty for southerners
Term

 

Member of the Republic Party

Definition

 

Abe Lincoln

Term

 

 Problems of the

Freeman Bank 

Definition

 

  • Incompetent cashiers
  • Inaccurate book keeping
  • Loans based on political influence
Term

 

 

Definition
Term

 

Fredrick Douglass

Definition

 

 

Last Predident of the Freemans Bank

Term

 

 

Reconstruction Act

Definition

 

  • Ex-confederate states would be divided into 5 military districts
  • Ratify 14th amendment
  • Based on universal male sufferage delegates would write a new state constitution.
Term

 

180,000

Definition

 

The number of African Americans that served in the Union Army

Term

 

 

Enlistment Act

Definition

 

A difference in pay for white and black soldiers


Whites earned $13/ Month and $3.50 clothing allowance

 

Blacks earned $7/ month and $3 clothing allowance

Term

 

 

Emancipation Proclamation

Definition

 

 

Freed slaves in states of rebellion

Term

 

 

Graduatl Emancipation

Definition

 

 

designed to work well with colonization

Term

 

 

Who primary concern was to keep the Union together during their election

Definition

 

 

Abe Lincoln

Term

 

 

620 thousand - 633 thousand

Definition

 

 

The number of people killed during the civil war

Term

 

 

The 1850 Compromise

Definition

 

  1. Abolished slave trade in D.C.
  2. California enters Union as a free state
  3. More strict fugitive Slave Act
Term

 

 

Writer of the Liberator

Definition

 

 

William Lloyd Garrison

Term

 

 

Jefferson Davis

Definition

 

 

President of the Confederate States of America

Term

 

 

Eli Whitney

Definition

 

 

Credited with creating the Cotton Gin

Term

 

 

25%

Definition

 

 

The number of southerners who owned slaves

Term

 

 

14 million

Definition

 

 

the approximate slave population in America in 1860

Term

 

 

Lyberia

Definition

 

 

The American Colinization Society sent people to this country

Term

 

 

Toussaint

Definition

 

 

Leader of the Haitian Rebellion

Term

 

 

Richard Allen

Definition

 

 

Estabolished the first A.M.E Church

Term

 

Absolom Jones

&

Richard Allen

Definition

 

 

Started the Free African Society

Term

 

 

4 million

Definition

 

 

United States population in the 1790 census

Term

 

 

750 thousand

Definition

 

 

African American population in 1790 census

Term

 

 

3/5 Compromise

Definition

 

  1. Taxation
  2. Government representation

 

Term

 

State policy's on who can enlist

Definition
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