Exoduster Vocabulary

Restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and keep them as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished.

• Homestead Act

• Black Codes

• Disenfranchisement

A law that allowed US citizens, or people wanting to become US citizens, to own free land in the Great Plains. 

• Homestead Act

• Black Codes

• Disenfranchisement

The removal of a legal right.

• Homestead Act

• Black Codes

• Disenfranchisement

A mass departure of people.

• Exodus

• Migration

• Exodusters

A long journey to a new home.

• Exodus

• Migration

• Exodusters

A group of African Americans who moved from the deep south to states that were along the Mississippi River to Kansas.

• Exodus

• Migration

• Exodusters

Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas

• Exodusters Pulled

• Exodusters Pushed

Missouri, Kansas Oklahoma

• Exodusters Pulled

• Exodusters Pushed

White abolitionist from Kansas who violently opposed slavery

• Henry Adams

• Benjamin Singleton

• John Brown

Leader of the Exodus Movement

• John Brown

• Henry Adams

• Benjamin Singleton