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After the expiration of the twenty-year period specified by the Constitution, Congress banned the slave trade.
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This Compromise prohibited slavery north of the geographical boundary at 36 degrees latitude (opposed by South senators). This act allowed Missouri to be admitted to the union as a slave state.
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William Lloyd Garrison founded American Anti-Slavery Society
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Three hundred women and men, including Federick Douglass. Convention was held at Seneca Falls, New York. the call for women suffrage failed.
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-scathing account of how slaves were mistreated
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which provided that all slaves in states still in active rebellion against the US would be freed automatically. It freed only those who lived in the Confederacy.
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banned all forms of "slavery and involuntary servitude"
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invalidate some state Black Code (laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves). Andrew Johnson vetoed the legislation, but Congress overrode the veto
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guaranteed the right of citizens to vote regardless of their race, color, or previous vondition of servitude. Sex was not mentioned.
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed NWSA
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-grant equal access to public accommodations such as theaters, restaurants, and transportation.
-prohibited the exclusion of African Americans from jury service -
Supreme Court decided that discrimination in variety of public accomodations could not be prohibited by the act because they are not state discriminations but private discriminations
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-NAWSA
-Headed by Susan B. Anthony -
Spreme Court approved seperate but equal doctrine
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a group lead by Oswald Garrison Villard evloved to NAACP
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guaranteed women the right to vote
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Supreme Court ruled that Missouri had failed to meet the separate but equal requirements
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Supreme Court decided to declare segregation unconstitutional because it violated Equal Protection Clause of Fourteenth Amendment.
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Court ruled that racially segregated systems must be dismantled with all deliberate speed
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Court ruled that segregation on bus violated Equal Protection Clause of Fourteenth Amendment.
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-lauched by Matin Luther King jR
-belief : nonviolent protest and civil disobedience -
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-Lincoln Memorial
-Martin Luther King -
-Kennedy was a former proponent of civil rights reform
-Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded -
-outlawed arbitrary discrimination in voter registration
-piblic accomodations
-desegregate public facilities and schools
-withholding of fedral funds for discriminatory state and local programs
-employment
-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -
-failed to enforce the law as to sex discrimination
-National Organization for Woman(NOW) formed -
-equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited unreasonable classifications based on sex
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-in pressure from NOW
-Equal rights under law should not be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on account of sex -
-Sex-discrimination would be judged by a new, intermediate standard of review a step below strict scrutiny
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-veterans convinced Congress to pass the ADA
-guarantees physical or mental disabilities
-guarantees access to public facilities, employment, and communication services
