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Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
Escape of Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a fugitive slave with a high price on her head in the American South. Born Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman, the eleventh child, was often called Minty. Harriet was a name she chose for herself as an adult. She helped other African american slaves escape and transfer to different free slave states in the underground railroads. -
Civil War
The American Civil War, waged from 1861 to 1865 The southern states saw Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans making enormous changes to their way of life using free slave labor. Southerners believed that Abraham Lincoln, if elected, would restrict their rights to own slaves. When Lincoln became president 11 southern states seceded rather than to give up their economic system and their way of life. Lincoln and the North opposed the South's withdrawal. -
13th Admendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed it to have been adopted. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War. -
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was an American baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke -
Emmett Till murder
14 year old Emmett Till was visiting family in misssissippi. This African American child was brutally murdered for flirting with a white women. The white woman's husband and her brother made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River ordered him to take his clothes off beat him nearly to death gouged out his eye shot him in the head and threw him in the rivier. -
Rosa Parks Bus boycott
On Thursday evening December 1, 1955, after a long day of work as a seamstress for a Montgomery, Alabama, department store, Rosa Parks boards a city bus to go home. "Whites only." She refuses to get out of her seat for a white person, -
I have a dream speech -Marther Luther King
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement -
Marther Luther King assassination
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot. Went to the hospital then finally died at 7:05 pm.
