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1.11. African-American History
Identify the following presidents:
1. In his will he offered freedom and gave an annuity of $30 to a slave named William Lee, "... as testimony of his attachment to me, and for his faithful services ... "
2. He prevented a planned slave revolt led by Gabriel Prosser.
3. He defended, before the United States Supreme Court, 39 Africans who had seized their slave ship on the way to America and landed in Long Island where they were arrested.
4. He authorized the use of federal troops in Boston to return one man, Anthony Burns, to Virginia pursuant to the Fugitive Slave Law.
5. "He was an ardent abolitionist and won an early reputation by successfully pleading the case of a slave who sued for his freedom on the ground that his master had brought him temporarily to the free state of New York."
6. He pushed for an amendment to the Tennessee constitution to outlaw slavery.
7. Frederick Douglass said of him "In all my interviews .... I was impressed by his entire freedom from popular prejudice against the colored race."
8. Booker T. Washington personally persuaded him to visit Tuskegee Institute.
9. He appointed B. O. Davis, Sr. the first black general in the regular army.
10. He sent federal troops to Arkansas to protect black students when Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated for the first time.
1.11. African-American History
Identify the following presidents:
1. In his will he offered freedom and gave an annuity of $30 to a slave named William Lee, "... as testimony of his attachment to me, and for his faithful services ... " George Washington. [GWPB 248]
2. He prevented a planned slave revolt led by Gabriel Prosser. James Monroe [SOV 119] in 1800 while governor of Virginia.
3. He defended, before the United States Supreme Court, 39 Africans who had seized their slave ship on the way to America and landed in Long Island where they were arrested. John Quincy Adams [TAC 333] The men, lead by a man called Cinque, were taken in Africa and were on the way to Cuba. They tried to force the ship's navigator to return them to Africa, but he steered a northerly course at night and so they landed on the coast of North America. The Supreme Court freed the men because the slave trade was illegal in Spanish colonies as well as the United States.
4. He authorized the use of federal troops in Boston to return one man, Anthony Burns, to Virginia pursuant to the Fugitive Slave Law. Franklin Pierce [FF 160-161]
5. "He was an ardent abolitionist and won an early reputation by successfully pleading the case of a slave who sued for his freedom on the ground that his master had brought him temporarily to the free state of New York." Chester A. Arthur [BCD 97]
6. He pushed for an amendment to the Tennessee constitution to outlaw slavery. Andrew Johnson while military governor of Tennessee in 1862. Tennessee was the only seceding state to end slavery by its own action. It was specifically exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation. [AP 144]
7. Frederick Douglass said of him "In all my interviews .... I was impressed by his entire freedom from popular prejudice against the colored race." Abraham Lincoln [LIB 256-257]
8. Booker T. Washington personally persuaded him to visit Tuskegee Institute. William McKinley, in 1900. [UFS 303-305]
9. He appointed B. O. Davis, Sr. the first black general in the regular army. Franklin D. Roosevelt [BTM 642].
10. He sent federal troops to Arkansas to protect black students when Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated for the first time. Dwight D. Eisenhower. [AP 297] The students included Ernest Gideon Green, the first black graduate from Central High. The students became known as the "Little Rock Nine." [AAB 44]
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