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The 3/5ths Compromise
This compromise was an argeement between the Southern and Northern states reached during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. This compromise only let 3/5th of the slave population be counted for the purpose of taxation and representation in Congress -
The Fugitive Slave Act
A law pased by congres so that alowed people to capture runaway slave anywhere in the US -
The Missouri Compromise
do to tention from pro-slave and anti-slave factions within the U.S.and across the country. They reached a boiling point after Missouri request to be admission to the Union as a slave state. To peace between the states Congress granted Missouri's request and made Maine a free state -
The Nat Turner Rebellion
A religious leader and self-styled Baptist minister, Turner and group of followers killed some 60 white men, women, and childern. Turner and 16 of his conspirators were executed but the incident haunted the Southern whites. -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
a black man trying to get his freedom and recognize as a U.S. citizien -
The John Brown Rebellion
Brown lead 18 who attacked Harper's Ferry. He seized a federal armory and held local citiczen hostage. After a two day fight marines came in and captured Brown. On December 2 1859 he was hung -
The Emancipation Proclamation
After three years of bloody civil war Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation which said that any slave that fought in the was would become free -
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, shot President Lincoln at a play at Ford's theater in Wahington D.C. which fatily ended his life -
The 13th Amendment
The Abolishion of all slavery in the U.S. -
The 14th Amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. -
The 15th Amendment
the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
This case cased there to be box cars for both blacks and whites