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Harper's Ferry was bought by Robert Harper. It is a small village named for him and later controlled a ferry. John Brown later led a raid on Harper's Ferry.
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There were 11 free and 11 slave states and then there was the missouri territory. This was the debate on whether it be a free or slave state. It was solved by making main free and giving Missouri the title of a slave state.
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Also know was Dread Scott Vs. Sanford. He lost this case and it was said that no black man, free or slave, could have a United States citizenship. It also stated that the the U.S. could not ban slavery. This helped lead the nation to a civil war.
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John Brown fought for the freedom of slaves and was an abolitionist. Him 18 others captured the arsenal at Harper's Ferry that night but were captured the next day. They found him guilty and he was hanged December second. Ralph Waldo Emerson said that John Brown made the gallows "as glorious as a cross."
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This was meant to end slavery in the united states. It abolished it yet many southerners were enraged by it. The Emancipation helped the North win the war. This is what the southerners feared about Abraham Lincoln; that they're ability to enslave African American's would be taken away.
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620,000 lives were lost during this bloody war. As an effect of this the south had very little voice in government. The north basicly had the majority of the say.
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This was the period in which Americans rebuilt after the civil war. Much of the south was destroyed so it was a difficult time period.
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The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws enacted between 1876 and 1965 in the United States. These include all the unconstitutional race based laws.
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This is what people called, "seperate but equal" yet it really wasn't. Black and white facilities were supposed to be the same but white facilities were always much better. This court case was later proven to be unconstitutional.
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So many states bought stocks on margin the stock market crashed. It sent the United States into the great depression. This sent FDR into office in 1932. When in office he helped stop the great depression by supplying jobs.
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The settin of this novel is during a hard time for African Americans. It is set in the South.
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This court case helped end the false "separate but equal" act. It declared that racial segregation is unconstitutional.
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This was a protest of the segregated bus system. Rosa Parks was a famous case of this. The boycott cost enough money that the bus system was desegregated. The boycott ended in Dec. 21, 1956 and included both blacks and whites.
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Harper Lee did not write this book in the time period it is set but she wrote it in the ninteen sixties when Racial Segregation was being fought.
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250,000 Americans, black and white, marched to Washington. This was an enormous deomonstrastion of American civil right movements.
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