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Black People were Captured
They take people in West Africa and send them to America for slaves
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Some States Started to Outlawed Slavery
This is a good news, many states opposed slavery, so started in 1770s some stated begin to outlawed slavery, Pennsylvania was the first group to do this
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Missouri Compromise
Separate slave states, the South, and free states, the North.
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Compromise of 1850
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Dred Scott
He was a slave who came to a free state with his owner, he sued for his freedom claimed that because he was in a free state now. But the Congress refused to give them citizenship because they said they were still slave even if they were in a free state. -
Jim Crow
After the Civil War, Southern States have to free the slaves and have equal right for black people. So then, Jim Crow was a name for the law they made to separate black and white people in public.