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Missouri Compromise
It was an effort by the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives to maintain the balance of power between slave states and Free states. The slave holding states feared that if they become outnumbered in congressional representation that they would lack the power to protect their interest in property and trade. -
Escape of Harriet Tubman
Harriet was a runaway slave from Maryland, she led 300 slaves to freedom threw the Underground Railroad, she was later a leader in the abolitionist movement, and during the civil war she was a spy with the federal forces in South Carolina. -
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Civil War
The war was between the United States and southern slave states. After four years of fighting the confederacy was defeated and slavery was abolished. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Issued by Abraham Lincoln the Emancipation Proclamation stated that “All persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people where of shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free”. The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t end slavery but it did change the basic character of the Civil War. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett was a 14 year old boy from Chicago, who was visiting some relatives in Mississippi when he whistled at a white woman and was taken from his uncle’s home on August 28 1955 and was beaten, shot in the head and then thrown into the Tallahatchie River. His body was found 3 days later. -
Rosa Park’s bus boycott
Rosa Parks was sitting on the bus when a white man came and told her to get up so he could sit there but Rosa refused to move so the man called the cops and the officer arrested her and asked her “why don’t you stand up?” and Rosa said “I don’t think I should have to”. This changed the African American life. -
I Have a Dream Speech
I have a dream speechThe “I Had a Dream Speech” was about Martian Luther King was him saying that he wanted whites and blacks to have racial equality -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was bombed in the morning on a Sunday while the service was going on. The bomber had hidden under a set of cinder block steps at the Church tunneled under the basement and placed a bundle of dynamite under what turned out to be the girl’s restroom. The blast killed 4 girls: Cynthia Wesler, Carole Robertson, Addie Collins all 14 and Denise McNair 11. -
Martin Luther King assassination
Martin Luther King was shot dead while he was standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at Lorraine motel in Memphis Tennessee. He was shot because what he believed in.
