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Hariet tubman escaped from slavery and is one of the underground railroad leaders. She made an underground railroad so that slaves can escape.
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When President Abraham Lincoln believed that all slaves should be free. But not all the slaves were free. It only freed the ones that were under UNION CONTROL.
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Slavery was offially abolished. And they made an amendment to the constitution.
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The 14th amendment declares that everyone who was born in the US or was raised in the US gets a citizenship.
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The 15th amendment states that every US citizen(man) is granted with voting rights.
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The Jim Crow Laws were are racial system against black people. They had anit-black laws and they were mostly 'equal but seperate'.
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Colorado was the first state to grant women the right to vote. Women were not allowed to vote and this law was only valid in Colorado(at the moment)
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A Mixed race man was arrested for sitting in the 'white' section of a railroad car. The man was mostly white: he loked white its just that he was half colored and so he got arrested. It was seperate nut not equal.
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The Great Depression developed in the US, but slowly it turned into a "world wide economic slump". There was a massive drought in the US by the name of the Dust Bowl. Most of the population was the farmers.But with the drought there aren't that many crops.
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The Scottsboro Trial is when 9 colored teenagers were accused of raping 2 white women on a train. One of them escaped and three were paroled.
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Brown v. BOE is basically a case in which a girl was not allowed to have admission to her local elementary schoola and there was a case to end de-segregation in all schools.
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An African-American women by the name of Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting on a seat ment for a white person. She refused to get off the chair and because of that she was arrested. Again the seperate but equal comes into place.
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Martin Luther King Junior gave his wonderful speech by the name of 'I Have A Dream'. His speech is about freeing the colored. Stopping segregation. Living a better life for everyone.
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The Civil Rights Act is declaring the end to all discrimination We are all equal. It is illegeal to dicriminate. Everyone has freedom, eqaulity and the pursuit of happiness.
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This act says that there are no dicrimninative restrictions on voting. We al have to right to vote and we have the right to be free.
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Martin Luther King Junior had been assainated in memphis. He was assainated by a gun in the morning while he was at a motel.
