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The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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In 1808 the slave trade was outlawed in Britian and the United States.
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The society was formed by an escaped slave, and a free slave. It published a weekly newspaper.
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Was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Lasted four years and left more than 600,000 soilders dead.
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Marks the beggining of mordern civil righs movement in the United States.
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Marked an important first step in gaining full rights.
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Gave the right to African Americans to vote, however they had many restrictions, like a literacy test and a poll tax.
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Marked an unfortunate setback in Civil Rights Movement. A Court case which upheld the constitutionality of segregation in public areas under the doctrine of separate but equal.
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Granted women the right the vote.
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Blacks and whites could serve together in uniform for the first time.
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For the first time , children of all races could attend school together.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Boycott of the Montgomery public transit system.
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Legislation signed into effect by President Eisenhower that established the Justice Department as a guarantor of the right to vote.
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allows both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
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It ended unequal vothing and segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the public.
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Outlawed racist voting practices.
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Provided equal housing.
