To Kill A Mockingbird Timeline Activity

By stoney234

  • The Missouri Compromise

    Signing a Document that gave Missouri entered the North, and Maine became a free state.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    A case bewteen a slave with the name of Dred Scott and the slaveowners wife because the slave owner had passed away, there for naming Dred Scott a free man. At the end of the case Dred Scott was told that he was a slave and not a citizen.

  • John Brown Raid (Harper's Ferry)

    The plan Of John Brown and his Army was to raid the Harper's Ferry and use the 20,000 weapons they had to arm the numerous slaves that Brown was convinced would come home with him.

  • American Civil War

    Reasoning behind the start of the war all lead back to a coupke key factors, The issue of state rights, the issue of taxation, and lastly slavery.

  • The Emanicipation Proclamation

    presented by President Abraham Lincoln as the nation approached its third blood civil war.The proclomation stated that every slave that lived within the states was now free.

  • The reconstruction period

    A period that happed during and after the American civil war in which attempts were made to solve different problems including political, social, and economic problems.

  • Plessy V. Ferguson Decision

    The arguments in the case revolved around the 13th Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th.Plessy argued that segregated facilities were going against the 14 ammendment.

  • When TKAMB was written

    mid 1950s

  • Brown v. Board of Education Decision

    a supreme court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    A boycott that was started because a lady named Rosa Parks was told to give her seat up for a white person because she was white and she refused to and was arrested.

  • When TKAMB was set

  • March on Washington

    more than 200,000 demonstrators took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation’s capital.

  • Jim Crow Laws

    these laws were state and local laws that were enacted bewteen the dates of 1876 and 1965, They put a hault to all segregation in any public facility on the southern states.