Unit 04: Race (Clark: Rachel, Holly, Callan)

Congress barred slavery from the northwest territory

The Second Great Awakening was religious revival that fought for injustices that included slavery, affordable education, the prison system, and mistreatment of women.

The ACS was an institution that promoted the resettlement of African Americans to Africa created by a Presbyterian minister Robert Finley. They believed that this would solve the problem of slavery in the US.

The first organized large scale emancipation movement that appeared with the creation of the ACS

The civil war was a conflict between the North and the South that started from their differences in political, social, and economic issues.

over half of the African American population were colonized by the ACS before the emancipation proclamation.

Passed after the civil to abolish slavery.

The first civil rights legislation in American history