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Atlantic Slave Trade
Africans begin being shipped to North America as slaves during the Atlantic Slave Trade -
Ratification of the US Constitution
The writers of the US Constitution decide taht slaves will count as three fifths of a person when deciding how many representatives each state will have in Congress. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed the people in each sate to decide whether their sate would allow slavery or not. The Compromised also was designed to keep an even number of free and slave states. This was one of the laws that helped avoid fighting between the free and slave states for forty years until the Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
Deal made that ends the slave trade in the US, Created a stronger newer fugitive slave law, allowed popular sovereinty, made California a free state, and allowed slavery to continue. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 totally wiped out the Missouri Compromise. Through the chaos and terrorist attacks in Kansas, and the fighting over slavery in taht state became known as Bleeding Kansas. -
Dredd Scott Decision
Dredd Scott was one of many people who fought for their freedom. He felt that since he was taken into a free state by his owner that he should be free. But the Supreme Court Ordered that slaves were not people but property and were owned by their owners and had no rights. -
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
White Abolitonist John Brown attempted an armed slave revolt by seizing the United States Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virgina -
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Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the President who wrote the Emancipation Proclamtion which eventually freed all the slaves. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation, written by Abraham Lincoln, eventually freed all the slaves in the United States of America. -
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Reconstruction
Period after the Civil War. During this time, laws were changed to give blacks more rights, and blacks were treated better because of the Union Army's protection of their rights. Lasted 12 Years. -
13th Amendment
Freed all the slaves within the United States -
Klu Klux Klan
The Klu Klux Klan begin terrorizing African Americans -
14th Amendment
Made ALL freed slaves US Citizens -
15th Amendment
Allowed all the Freed slaves the right to vote -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson made the segregation of trains, cars, and buses legal. -
Briggs v. Elliot
Case brought to the Supreme Court and appealed against Segretation. Ruled that segregation was unlawful or Seperate but equal was unconstitutional -
Brown v. Board of Education
Case brought to the Supreme Court that said that Segregation was unconstitutional and integrated all schools. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Enacted by President John F. Kennedy, said that any kind of Segregation whether public, school, theaters, etc. is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
