WGS Chapters 5&6

5. Prison labor system where prisoners were chained together and forced to work.
8. The site of the first women’s rights convention in 1848.
10. Civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight racial discrimination.
12. “The women and the men wanted land, the ballot, and ___.”
13. The right to vote.
15. Government agency created to assist freed slaves after the Civil War.
18. Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery in 1865.
20. Key abolitionist and suffragist who co-organized the Seneca Falls Convention.
22. Truth Abolitionist and women’s rights activist known for “Ain’t I a Woman?”
24. Executive order by Abraham Lincoln that freed enslaved people in 1863.

1. Formerly enslaved abolitionist and supporter of women’s suffrage.
2. Laws restricting African Americans’ freedoms in the South after the Civil War.
3. The period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and granting rights to freed slaves.
4. System where prisoners, often African Americans, were leased out for labor after the Civil War.
6. Anti-lynching activist and suffragist.
7. System where former slaves worked the land for a share of crops, often leading to debt.
9. A character from the famous anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
11. Work typically done by women, especially in homes, often associated with low wages and racial inequality.
14. The act of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions.
16. Laws enforcing racial segregation in the South.
17. A widely held but oversimplified and generalized belief, particularly about racial and gender roles.
19. A person who advocates for the end of slavery.
21. German socialist and feminist who advocated for international women’s labor rights.
23. A movement combining the struggle for racial and gender equality, often led by African American women.