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13th Ammendment timeline
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The Northwest Ordinance
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 -
The Liberator is published
This is a newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison that helped star the abolition movement in the North. -
Emancipation Proclamation is passed
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. -
Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect
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Amendment passed by the senate
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Amendment passed by the House of Representatives
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Frederick Douglass travled the North speaking for Black suffrage
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13th Amendment is adopted to the Constitution
This is important because this amendment went one step beyond the Northwest Ordinance and outlawed/banned slavery throughout the entire country. -
Congress passes the Freedmen's Bureau Bill and the Civil Rights Bill
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. -
Fredrick Douglass Campaigns in as Republican Candidate
This is important because Frederick Douglass is an African-American male
