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the missouri comprimise
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The dred scott desicion
the history placedred scott was a slave, his master then moved to illinois, a free state. late the army told his master to move back to missiouri. after his master died, he sued, saying he should be free since he lived in free soil for a long time, but the supreme court said it slaves werent citizens, and will never be citizens. -
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
a crazy old man named john brown went donw to an arsenal with other abolitionists and raided it, trying to get national attention. they were later hung -
The American Civil War
A war between USA and the confedaracy. the confedaracy wanted to seperate from the united states, but the US didnt want them to. also during this time lincon dicided to try to abolish slavery, since it was mostly its fault. -
The Reconstruction period and the Emancipation Proclamation
The emancipation proclamations states that if you dropped out of the union, you must abolish slavery
the reconstruction period was after the war when both the north and the south got together to fix all the damage made, and to abolish slavery completely -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws are laws that are meant to keep people segregated -
Plessy V. Ferguson desicion
Plessy wanted to ride the whites car of a train , but he was arrested because he was 1/8th black. he argued that violated the 13th and 14th amendmentg, but the court ruled the state can make up the rules in the railroad system, since that railroad only went around that state. -
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the Brown V. the Board of Education desicion
the browns got in an argument with the board of education to let their little girl go to an all white school.they said it made colored children feel infirior to white ones . but the board argued that this would help the children with segegration later in life -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
this was when the colored decided to not ride the bus until they got to sit where they wanted -
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The march on washington
this was a march for civil right
