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Atlantic Slave Trade
Africans begin being shipped to North America slaves during the Atlantic Slave Trade -
Ratification Of The US Constitution
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Constitution.htmltThe Constitution is the framework for the organization of the United States Government and the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, snd all people within the United States.
tbe writers of the United States Constitution decide that slaves will count as three fifths of a person when deciding how many represenatives each state will have -
Missouri Compromise of 1820
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed the people in each state to decide whether their was slavery or not. The compromise also was designed to keep an even number of free and slave states. This was one of the laws that helped avoid the fighting between free and slave states for forty years, until the Civil War. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 ends the slave trade to the United States, but allows slavery to continue. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 totally wiped out the Missouri Compromise. Through chaos and terrorist attacks in Kansas, the fighting over slavery in that state became known as "Bleeding Kansas". -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was one of many people who fought for their freedom. He felt that since he was taken into a free state with his owner, he should be free. The Supreme Courts decision angered people in free states by the court declaring blacks are not citizens and also said that they are still their owners property. It helped cause the civil war by strengthening the anti-slavery movement which helped increase animosity towards the South for the starting of the civil war. -
Harpers Ferry
John Brown attacks the military arsenal at Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolt and end slavery. -
Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the person who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation eventually freed many slaves, and was made to punish the South for breaking away from the country during the Civil War. -
Reconstruction
Reconstruction was the period after the Civil War. During Reconstruction, laws were changed to give Blacks more rights and Blacks were treated better because the Union Army protected their rights. This period of more fair laws lasted for twelve years. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation anounced the end of slavery in the South. But, since the South broke away from the United States, slavery didnt end until the country was back together again. Freeing slaves was Abraham Lincolns way of punishing the south for splitting up the country. -
Civil War Amendments
The Civil War Amendments were Amendment 13, 14, and 15 to the U.S. Constitution. The 13th Amendment freed all slaves in the United States. The 14th Amendment made all free slaves U.S. Citizens.The 15th Amendment was made to let all freed slaves vote in the United States. -
Reconstruction
Reconstruction was the period after the Civil War. During Reconstruction, laws were changed to give Blacks more rights, and were treated better because the Union Army protected their rights. This period of more fair laws lasted for twelve years. -
KKK
The Klu Klux Klan begins terrorizing African Americans. -
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
Plessy Vs. Ferguson made it legal to have segregation in trains, cars, and buses. The case went to the Supreme Court where Plessy tried to end segregation and unfair treatment. This started to backfire when african american parents started to sue the school board for being seperate but not equal not seperate but equal. -
Briggs V. Elliot
South Carolina law required incomplete segregation. Constitution of South Carolina read as following: "Seperate schools shall be provided for children of white and colored races, and no child of either race shall be permitted to attend a school provided for children of the other race..." " It shall be unlawful for pupils of the other race attend the schools provided by the boards of trustees for persons of another race." -
Brown Vs. Board of education
Brown Vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas was a more successful Supreme Court battle against segregation. Oliver was the first parent for a group court case for kids living in his area who had to walk a mile through a railroad switching yard to take them to an all-black school. The court's decision made it illegal to segregate schools. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
President John F. Kennedy helped make laws to end segregation. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which passed after his death, made it illegal to force blacks to use seperate schools, theaters, restaurants, buses, restrooms, and trains.
