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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a congressional agreement that regulated the extension of slavery in the United States for the next 30 years. Under the agreement the territory of Missouri was admitted as a slave state, the territory of Maine was admitted as a free state, and the boundaries of slavery were limited to the same latitude as the southern boundary of Missouri: 36° 30’ north latitude. -
The Dred Scott Decision
In the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision of 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that free blacks were not citizens of the United States and that Congress lacked the power to prohibit slavery in the western territories. -
The John Brown Decisison
On 16 October 1859 a white, visionary abolitionist named John Brown led a band of twenty-one men (five of whom were African Americans) in the seizure of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. After holding the site for several hours, Brown and his followers were captured by federal troops under the command of Robert E. Lee. Southerners were outraged by Brown's actions, interpreting them as symptomatic of a willingness among northerners to attempt the forcible overthrow of slavery. In December 185 -
The American Civil War
The American Civil War was The Union(top) VS. The Confederates(bot).This was a HUGE war between the states and at the end the Union one -
The Emancipation Proclamation
On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that as of January 1, 1863, slaves living in areas under Confederate control would be "forever free." The official proclamation of January 1863 differed philosophically from the preliminary proclamation by omitting mention of compensated emancipation and colonization of freed slaves outside U.S. boundaries. -
The Reconstruction Period
Reconstruction was the period in American history immediately after the Civil War. The physical rebuilding of Southern cities, ports, railroads, and farms that had been destroyed during the war was only a small part of the Reconstruction process. The major work of Reconstruction involved restoring the membership of the Southern states in the Union. -
The Plessy v. Ferguson decision
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) established the legality and constitutionality of separate-but-equal accommodations for blacks and whites. In other words, it validated Jim Crow forms of racial separation. -
The Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow Laws emerged in southern states after the U.S. CIVIL WAR . First enacted in the 1880s by lawmakers who were bitter about their loss to the North and the end of SLAVERY , the statutes separated the races in all walks of life. The resulting legislative barrier to equal rights.Top of Articlecreated a system that favored whites and repressed blacks, an institutionalized form of inequality that grew in subsequent decades with help from the U.S. Supreme Court. Although the law -
When The Novel was SET
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Brown v. Board of Education
In 1896 the Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, upheld a Louisiana statute requiring the Segregation of railroad cars as long as the facilities were "separate but equal." That decision provided legal support for more widespread segregation, including segregation in the South's elementary and secondary schools. The Supreme Court's unanimous 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education struck down that practice. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a mass protest by African American citizens in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, against SEGREGATION policies on the city’s public buses. It was nine years before the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 would change the nation forever. But in 1955, when ROSA PARKS refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, she was arrested and jailed for violating state segregation laws. She did not realize at the time that her actions would have an immediate effect on other m -
The March on Washington
On Wednesday, August 28, 1963, approximately 300,000 protesters rallied at the Lincoln Memorial in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the largest civil rights demonstration in American history. The march culminated months of intensifying local civil rights struggles throughout the South (and in some northern cities), most prominent being the Birmingham, Alabama, movement led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
