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Missouri Compromise
The plan to balance the power in Congress between free states and slave states. This made Missouri a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
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Civil War
Tension between northern and southern United States over states' rights and federal authority. Some major battles are Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Vicksburg, among others. -
Harriet Tubman
Escaped from the Underground Railroad which freed slaves in the North. She also served as a spy for the Union during the Civil War and was the first American woman to lead a military expendition. -
13th Amendment
Slavery was abolished for good in the United States. -
15th Amendment
The right to vote and shall not be denied by color or race. -
Jackie Robinson
He was the first African American to play Major League Baseball. Robinson was also the first African American to steal a base in a Major League game. -
Emmett Till Murder
Two white men kidnapped him, beat him, and shot him in the head when he was supposably flirted with a white cashier. -
Rosa Parks
She refused to give up her seat to a white passenger so the bus driver called the police. Rosa was found guilty of violating a local ordinance and got fined $10 and a $4 court fee. -
Greensboro, NC sit in
Four freshman at North Carolina A&T went into a resteraunt and ate lunch and when they was told they weren't going to be served they refused to leave. Then all African American people in the south did the same. -
Sixteenth Street Bapist Church Bombing
Bombing Of Sixteenth StreetThe church was a meeting place for civil rights leaders. A white man was seen getting out of a car and placing a box under the church steps soon after the bomb exploded and killed four people. -
Martin Luther King Assassination
He was shot by a sniper when he went out on the balcony at the Lorraine Motel without warning.
