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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was a compromise to try and balance the power in Congress between slave and free states. -
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Civil War
It was a War against the Union and the independence of the Confederacy because of slavery. -
Emancipation Proclamations
President Abraham Lincoln issues the Proclamation as they were approaching their thrid year of the civil war, declaring that all people held as slaves with the rebellious states are free and shall be considered free. -
13th Admendment
This admendment abolished slavery in the United States. -
15th Amendment
This amendment declared the right for African Americans to vote. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in major leagues baseball in the modern era. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till was caught flirting with a white women who was working a cashier at a grocery store, and four days later he taken by two white men and they beat him, gourged his eye, then shot him in the head. The two white men were tried for murder but an all white male jury let them go. -
Rosa Parks Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to get up and move on the bus for a white man to sit there, she was arrested and fined. -
Greensboro, NC sit in
It was a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro North Carolina which lead to the Woolworth clothing store removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern united states. -
I have a Dream Speech
Martin Luther King Jr. made a speech about ending racism in the United States and called for Civil and Economic rights. -
Martin Luther King Assassination
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel by James Earl Ray, who later admitted to it and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee State Penitary.
