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The Missouri Comprimise
To balance the power in Congress between the slaves and the free slaves.Also to free the slaves from slavery and let them be free and Missouri was the place for them to go. -
Civil War
The civil war was very harsh but it broke our country up and made us a nation.And it was known as the most devastating war in American history. -
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Slavery
It began when the first African Americans wre brought to the America's to do work in the fields to make life easier on them. -
13th amendment
Except a punishment of crime but still has the right to vote even do to unvoluntary servitude or has been a slave. -
15th amendment
The 15th amendment gave africans the right to vote to any previous condition or servitude. -
The Harlem Renaissance
Harlem RenaissanceA group of millions of Africans and it was a cultural movement and was a celebration of there heritage and culture. -
NAACP
It was a national assosiation for an advancement of colored people also after a riot in Springfield and they all wanted to find a way to create social equality. -
Jackie Robinson
Helped the Dodgers win th eworld series. And the first African American to play major legue baseball. -
Rock 9
Nine black students attempted to enter an all white school. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
He died on April 4th 1968,St. Joseph's Hospital.He was a clergyman and one of his sayings were:In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.And he had a wife,and four kids. -
Greensboro, NC sit in
Was a segregated lunch counter were ''whites only".
