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Missouri Compromise
In 1820 the admitted Missouri as a slave state and Main as a free state. -
Escape of Harriet Tubman
she was a runaway slave from Maryland. She lead hundred of slaves to freedom. -
Civil War 1861-1865
The Civil War started in 1861-1865. It was the Northern United States against the Southern United States. The Northern United States wanted to ban slavery and the Southern United States wanted to keep slavery. -
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13th Amendment
to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, nor any place subject to their jurisdiction." Passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865. -
15th Amendment-
the amendment gave African American men the right to vote in 1870s -
Jackie Robinson-
Was the first African American to play baseball. He was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, GA. Died on October 24, 1972 in Stamford, CT. -
Emmett Till Murrder.
when he was visiting his family in Mississippi. He was murdered when he was only 14-years-old for flirting with a white woman in 1955. -
Rosa Park’s bus boycott
Rosa Park She was arrested December 1st 1955, for not moving out of a bus sit for a white man. -
I Have A Dream Speech
On 28 August 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. Stood up at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC and told 250,000 euphoric supporters of his dream for racial equality. -
