Roots of Suffrage 1800-1890

By Cohenadam6394
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    Roots of Suffrage 1800-1970

  • Slave Rebellion Supressed

    August 30, Gabriel Prosser's attempt to lead a slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia is suppressed.

  • Slave Trade Ban

    Congress banned the Slave trade in 1808

  • Importation of Slaves is banned

    The imporation of slaves into the United States is banned; this is also the earliest day uner the United States Constitution that an amendment could be made restricting slavery

  • Black Population in 1820

    In 1820, Black made up twenty-five percent of the U.S. population and were in the majority in some southern states

  • Missouri Compromise

    The missouri Compromise allowed for the entry as states of Maine and Missouri, and decided which future slavery states would be allowed to join the United States

  • Slave Rebellion Suppressed

    Denmark Vessy's slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina is suppressed.

  • David Wlaker begins publication

    David Walker begins publication of the abolitionist pamphlet Walker's Appeal

  • Josiah Henson, a slave who fled the U.S.

    Josian Henon, a slave who fled and arrived in Canada, is an author, abolitionist, minister and the inspiration behind the book Uncole Tom's Cabin

  • Nat Turner, Famous Rebellion

    Nat Turner leads the most successful slave rebellion in U.S. history. The rebellion is suppressed, but only after many deaths.

  • First Institutie for Higher Education for African Americans

    The first institute of Higher Education for Acrican-Americans is founded. Founded as the African Institue in February 1837 and renamed the Institute of Colored Youth (ICY) in April 1837 and is now known as Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.

  • South dependent, black population falling

    In 1840, the black population had falled to twenty percent. South was even more dependent on agriculture and cheap slave labor as its economic base.

  • Abolition and Womens Rights

    Frederick Douglass, , a well-known black abolitionist writer, in 1848 he join three hundred men and women at the first meeting for women’s rights, which was held in Seneca Falls, New York

  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

    As part of the Compromise of 1850, Congress passed the Fugitvie Slave act of 1850 which required any feder official to arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave.

  • Abolition and Womens Rights

    1851 meeting in Akron, Ohio, former slave Sojourner Truth delivered her famous “Aint I a Woman? Calling on women to recognize the plight of their black sisters.

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford Ruling

    o The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) that slaves were not U.S. citizens, and as a consequence, slaves could not bring suits in federal court

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation; all slaves in states still in active rebellion against the United States would be freed automatically on January 1, 1863.

  • Thirteenth Amendment passed

    The thirteenth Amendment was the first of three Civil War Amendments.

  • Black Codes

    Black Codes prohibited African Americans from voting, sitting on juries, or even appearing in public places.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Civil Rights Act of 1866 was designed to invalidate some state Black Codes. Andrew Johnson vetoed the legislation; but-for the first time in history-Congress overrode a presidential veto.

  • Fourteenth Amendment was passed

    The Fourteenth Amendment was proposed with the Civil Rights Act to guarantee citizenship to all freed slaves.

  • The Fifteenth Amendment was passed by Congress

    The Fifteenth Amendment was passed by Congress in early 1869, guaranteeing the “right of citizens’ to vote regardless of their “race, color or previous condition of servitude.’ Sex was not mentioned

  • Civil Rights Act of 1875

    Civil Rights Act of 1875 was designed to grant equal access to public accommodations such as theaters, restaurants, and transportation.

  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws – enacted by Southern States that discriminated against blacks by creating “whites only” schools, theaters, hotels, and other public accommodations.

  • Suffrage Movement

    Suffrage movement – the drive for voting rights for women that took place in the United States from 1890 to 1920.

  • The Progressive Era Begins (1890-1920)

    The Progressive era (1890-1920) was characterized by a concerted effort to reform political, economic, and social affairs. Child labor, the concentration of economic power in the hands of a few industrialists, limited suffrage, political corruption, business monopolies, and prejudice against African Americans all were targets of progressive of the reform efforts.

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson is a landmark case over the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in private businesses, under the doctrine of "separate but equal."

  • Women's Suffrage

    In 1909, a handful of individuals active in a variety of progressive causes, including woman suffrage and the fight for better working conditions for women and children, met to discuss the idea of a group devoted to the problems of the Negro.

  • Mexican Revolution 1910

    In 1910, the Mexican Revolution forced Mexicans seeking safety and employment into the United States.

  • Nineteenth Amendment

    Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote, fifty years after African American males were enfranchised by the Fifteenth Amendment

  • Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

    Brown v. Board of Education (1954) – U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that school segregation is inherently unconstitutional because it violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection.

  • Brown v. Board of Eudcation II (1955)

    Brown v. Board of Education II (1955) the Court ruled that racially segregated systems must be dismantled “with all deliberate speed.”

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks made history when she refused to leave her seat on a bus to move to the back to make room for a white male passenger. She was arrested for violating an Alabama law banning integration of public facilities, including buses.

  • Equal Pay act of 1963

    The equal pay act of 1963 requires employers to pya women and men equal pay for work.

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. launched a series of massive nonviolent demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama. Thousands of Blacks and whites marched to Birmingham in a show of solidarity. Peaceful marches were met there by the Birmingham police commissioner, who ordered his officers to use dogs, clubs, and fire hoses on the marchers

  • Civil Righs Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964 – 1) Outlawed arbitrary discrimination in voter registration and expedited voting rights lawsuits. 2) Barred discrimination in public accommodations engaged in inerstate commerce. 3) Authorized the Department of Justice to initiate lawsuits to desegregate public facilities and schools4) Provided for the withholding of federal funds from discriminatory state and local programs5) Prohibited discrimination in employment on grounds of race, creed, color, rel

  • MALDEF

    o Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. MALDEF was founded instance, secured a $2.2 million start-up grant from the Ford Foundation. MALDEF was originally created to bring test cases before the Supreme Court to force school districts to allocate more funds to schools with predominantly low-income minority population, to implement bilingual education programs, to force employers to hire Latino/as, and to challenge elect