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-African Americans begin being shipped to North America as slaves.
-Europeans took A.A. because of expierence.
-Legislature banned slave trade (1807-1808) -
-Checks and balances.
-Writers decided slaves will count as three-fifhs of a person when deciding how many reps. each state will have in Congress.
-Framework for organization and for the relationship of the fed. gov.,states,citizens, and all the people within the U.S. -
-Allowed people in each state to be a slave state or not.
-Designed a even number of free and slave states.
-36-30 Parallel
-A law that helped avoid fighting between slave and free state untill Civil War. -
-Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
-Proclamtion:Freed many slaves and was made to punish South for breakinga way from the country during the Civil War.
-Southerns did not liek Lincoln and what he stood for. -
-Ends slave trade to the U.S but allows slavery to continue.
-Was given to resolve disputes over slavery.
-California turned to be free state.
-Northern Abolitonists said slavery should be abolished, whyile sounterns wanted fugitive slave law. -
-Fought for freedom.
-Since taken into a free state should be free from owner and south.
-Supreme Court decided since he was "property" and was a A.A he had no right to sue. -
-Wiped out Missouri Compromise.
-People fighting over Kansas if slavery should be in the state, otherwise known as "Bloody Kansas."
-North disagreed about slavery while the south agreed to it. -
-John Brown attacks the military arsenal and starts a slave revolt and ends slavery.
-Brown founded guilty at Jefferson County Courthouse.
-Senteced to death; Was hung in Charles Town on December 2nd of 1859. -
-Announced the end of slavery in the South
-South broke away from the U.S; Slavery then didnt end until the country was back together.
-Freeing slaves was Lincoln's way of punishing the South for breaking away from the country. -
-A period that took place after the Civil War.
-During this time period laws were changed and gave African Americans more rights while the Union protected these rights.
-Had changed the lives of many people in the south such as plantation owners, African Americans, women, small farmers, etc. -
It stated in the year of 1865 when the 13th amendment was ratified, then in the year of 1866 the 14th was too. Lastly was the 15th amendment of 1869.
-13th: Freed all slavesin the United States.
-14th amendment: Made all freed slaves US citizens.
-15th amendment: Allowed the right to vote for all freed slaves in US. -
-The KKK was created on December 24, 1865 by 6 well educated confederate veterans.
- The first leader was Nathan Bedford Forrest.
-In 1868 the KKK stated to terroize the African Americans.
-Terroized A.A by lynching,discriminating,etc. . -
-Made it legal to have segregation in trains, cars, and buses.
-Case had gone to Supreme Court where Plessy tried to end segregation and unfair treatment.
-"Separate is NOT Equal" -
-A more successful Supreme Court battle aganist segregation.
-This was all in Topeka, Kansas.
-Okiver Brown was first of many parents to sign up for a group court case for kids living in this area that had to walk many miles for school to catch a bus to take them to an all-black school.
-This made the court's decision to make it illegal to segregate schools. -
-"Separate but Equal"
- A case because of the unlawfulness for pupils of one race to attent the schools provided by boards of trustees for persons of another race.
-Case was dismissed and went to school district (who had won). -
-President Kennedy helped to make laws to end segregation.
-Made it illegal to force African Americans to use separte schools, theaters, restaurants, buses, restrooms, and trains.
-Ended unequal application of voter registration requirements.
