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Missouri Compromise
Applied to the Union as a State.
Needed 60,00 people to sign but 10,000 people were slaves.
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Dred Scott Decision
Was born a slave on Southampton County,Virginia in 1795.
Died in 1832.
Was sold for $500 to a surgeon in the U.S. Army.
He wanted to gain his freedom, waged one of the most important legal battles in the history of the United States. -
The John Brown Raid
Born on May 9, 1800.
He was hanged in 1859 on December 2. Which was in Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
To people he was a terroist, a religious fanatic who wouldn't wait for the law to free slaves. -
American Civil War
Was a traumatic war.
It interrupted American literacy activity.
Major authors of American Renaissance continued to write after the war ended. -
Reconstruction/Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln gave a speech.
Gave Confederacy an ultimatum: return to the Union with slavery intact.
January 1, he would free the slaves/ -
Plessy v Ferguson Decision
United States upheld the Constitutionality of a Lousiana law that required railroads to provide "equal but seperate accomadations for the white and colored races." Case enriched the Constutional validity of racial segregation laws. Permitted the proliferation of mandatory segregation laws across the American South during thr late 19th and 20th century. -
Jim Crow Laws
African Americas suffered under a system of legalized race control. denied them political, social, educational, and economic oppurnutity. Invidious methods of racial opperssion were in place across the nation but mostly in the South. -
Brown v Board of Education
Was the most significant even t in the 20th century.
Ruiling outward racial segregation i public schools and led to the dismantling of a legasl regime that had relegated African Americans to a subordinated position in American society. He handled the campaign by the National association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)> -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A black woman named rosa Parks sat down in a sit on a bus and a white male asked her to move, but she wouldn't.
She got arrested.
The trial on occured for a day.
This happened on December 1. -
Novel Written
The novel was published in 1960. -
Novel Set
On Harper Lee's childhood. -
March on Washington
Quarter of a million people demonstrated civil rights on grounds of Lincoln Memorial.
Largest demonstration of the human rights ever seen.
In the Summer, there were job oppurnuties for African Americans.
