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When the first slave were transported to the Americas.
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This law stated that any child born of a slave mother would also become a slave.
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The New York Slave Revolt
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This war helped some slaves escape their situation because the British said they would free them if they joined them
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After the revolution many slave owners in the Upper South freed their slaves.
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Was made according to the Constitution
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In the Dred Scott Decision Africans were blatently denied rights by the Supreme Court.
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President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that freed a majority of slaves
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The Thirteenth Amendment was passed which abolished all slavery.
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The 14th Amendment was passed that gave citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. or naturalized which gave citizenship to African Americans.
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Supreme Court said that the 14th Amendment didn't apply to privately owned facilities and this decision helped to strengthen the Jim Crow laws.
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The Supreme Court ruled that it is constitutional constitutional to require black and white people to be treated "separate but equally."
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The Supreme Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to have separate schools for blacks and whites.
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Martin Luther King Jr. led the bus boycott to try to end segregation on buses.
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This act guarantees that all people will have equal access to hotels, restaurants, and other public places.
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