Top 10 Civil Rights Acts From 1619-1900 Jaclyn Montoya

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    Civil Rights Acts

  • Missouri Compromise

    Proposed by Jesse Thomas, was a happy resolution to a dangerour situation in the union

  • Killings Of Nat Turner

    Slave preacher that killed sixty white people in a church before being over powered by state and federal troops and was executed.

  • American Anti Slavery Society established

    founded by William Lloyd Garrison

  • Underground Railroad

    Sympathetic whites and free blacks organized escape routes to help assist running slaves.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

    Wrote by Hattiet Beecher Stowe, Most powerful antislavery propoganda

  • Dred Scott V. Sanford

    Decided Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.

  • Lecompton Constitution

    pro slavery forces met in Lecompton and legalized slavery and refused to give voters a chance to reject it. It was rejected.
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    Civil War

  • Confederacy established

  • Civil Rights Act

    Declared blacks to be citizens of the US and gave the Federal government power to intervene in state affairs to protect the rights of citizens.