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Missouri Compromise
To keep the balance of power between slave and free states. Which added Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. -
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Dred Scott v Sanford
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Compromise of 1850
5 bills that passed in September 1850 to help solve the political argument between slave and free states. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Allowed the people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they wanted slaves or not. -
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Booker T. Washington
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John Brown’s raid
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John Brown’s raid
To raid a Federal U.S arsenal to start a slave revolt. But John Browns party of 22 was stopped by U.S marines. -
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Abraham Lincoln as President
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Civil War
The south started to separate itself from the north and the north didn’t want that to happen. So they went to war and it also ended slavery after the war. -
Emancipation Proclamation
A proclamation created under Abraham Lincolns presidency that made some areas in the south a slave free state. -
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime. -
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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14th Amendment
Grant citizenship to everyone born in the United States. -
15th Amenment
Gave everyone the right to vote. -
Colfax massacre
150 black men were killed by white southerners. -
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Cruikshank case
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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T.R Davidson
He had an interest in flying planes but he had to fight hard obstacles to pass his test -
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Brown v. Board of Education
When the Supreme Court out lawed segregation in public schools. -
John Lewis
When he was younger he was treated unfairly and wasn’t allowed to go to a public library because it was “white only” and became a Congress man them gained respect -
March on Washington
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24th amendment
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Marching on Selma
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Voting right act of 1965
