Early African American Struggles

By Xiaotong Liu
  • Jul 28, 1500

    Middle Passage

  • The Pennsylvania Abolitian Society was the first abolitionist group in what is now the USA

  • Massachusetts outlawed slavery

  • The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 outlawsed slavery in the territory

  • States like Ohio and New Jersey began to outlaw slavery

  • The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves took effect

  • The Missouri Compromise of 1820 prohibited slavery north of 36-30 line

  • California admitted as a free state

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dred Scot Decision

  • Civil War by President Lincoln

  • Fifteenth amendment

  • Plessy v Ferguson was a Supreme Court decision

  • National Association

  • The Harlem Renaissance flourishes promoting a musical, literary,artistic,and intellectual movement of African Americans

  • NAACP