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The events that happened from the 1800's to 1980's
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The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery states in the US
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Dred scotts owner, Sanford, was living in free soil and Dred Scott was still enslaved so he sued his owner.
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Brown and followers seized the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
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A war that took place in the US where the North fought the South
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It was a Law that set all Slaves free.
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On June 13 Congress approved the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing equal protection under the law to all citizens. The amendment also granted citizenship to African Americans.
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The U.S. Supreme Court in Strauder v. West Virginia stated that African Americans cannot be excluded from juries on the based on race.
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The Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
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The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1939, and was the worst economic downturn in history
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it was set during the Great Depression during the early 1930's
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The day when the blacks of Montgomery, Alabama, decided that they would boycott the city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted
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It was Published July 11 1960
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More than 200,000 people gathered as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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Laws that forbid all intermarriage
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When Plessy was arrested because he sat in a "whites" train car
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