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This is the one of the earliest Congressional acts that regulated slavery in the United States. This document outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territory, land that was north of the Ohio River, east of the Mississippi river, South of the Great Lakes and west of Pennsylvania
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This is a newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison that helped star the abolition movement in the North.
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This document was an immediate stop to slavery but was only temporary. President Lincoln passed this to ban slavery long enough to draw up and pass a Constitutional amendment that would permanently stop slavery.
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This is important because this amendment went one step beyond the Northwest Ordinance and outlawed/banned slavery throughout the entire country.
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The Freedmen's Bureau Bill extended the powers of a government agency that had been established in 1865 for the purpose of providing medical, educational, and financial assistance for the millions of impoverished southern blacks, and the Civil Rights Bill gave full citzenship to blacks, along with all the rights enjoyed by other Americans.
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This is important because Frederick Douglass is an African-American male
