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On September 20th, Maryland passes a law that banned interracial marriage. This was mainly to prevent English women from marrying African men.
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The Slave trade was removed from the Declaration of Independence because the southern colonies were pressuring Thomas Jefferson
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Congress passes the first fugitive slave act, which makes it illegal to house an escaped slave
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Charles Deslondes made an army of 200 enslaved men and battled for freedom
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Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a non-slave state at the same time so there would be the same amount of slave and non-slave states. It also outlawed slavery above the 36 30 latitude line.
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Harriet Tubman was a slave who escaped. Between 1849 and the Civil War, she went to Maryland and helped slaves escape. Harriet also became the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a series of bills passed to help slaves. They prohibited slave trade in the District. of Columbia, allowed slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty in new states, and established a stricter fugitive slave act
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The 13th Amendment passed on January 31st, 1865, abolished slavery in the United States.
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All males in the United States, no matter race, had the same rights.
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Stephen Douglas argued for popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska. This created a divide between slave and anti-slave supporters. When the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, a divide in the country was formed between the north and the south.
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The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was formed to fight for equality and make sure that everyone had the same rights and eliminate racial discrimination.
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A large number of African Americans start moving north to find jobs in factories.
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The Supreme court ruled that the separation of children because of their race in public schools was unconstitutional.
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An African American woman named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger because the whites-only section was filled. She was arrested, but this event inspired people to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was shot outside his hotel room in Memphis Tennesee at 38 years old. This caused riots all over the United States.
