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However, illegal slave trade continues.
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This was created so there was a balance between the 12 free and 12 slave states.
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This Act legally mandated the return of any runaway slaves, without regard of the location within the Union where they were at the time of their discovery/capture.
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Court rules that that slaves do not become free when taken into a free state and that blacks cannot become citizens.
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Southern states secede to form the Confederate States of America.
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President Lincoln issues this in order to free "all slaves in areas still in rebellion."
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The 13th Amendment was created, which tabolished slavery.
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This requires equal protection under the law to all persons.
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This bans racial discrimination in voting.
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Plessy challenged a Louisiana statue requiring that railroads provide separate accommodations for blacks and whites. The Court found that separate but equal accommodations did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that school segregation is inherently unconstitutional because it violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. Marked the end of legal segregation in the U.S.
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In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus.
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It prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
