US history project

3/5 Compromise

Jul 12, 1787

Between southern and northern states which stated a black man was only worth 3/5s of a man

Compromise of 1820

Mar 3, 1820

First overt sectional conflict in U.S. history pro-slavery and anti slavery

Compromise of 1850

Sep 1, 1850

Intricate package of 5 bills (4 year confrontation between slave states and free states)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

May 30, 1854

Created territories of Kansas and Nebraska

Dred Scott Decision

Mar 6, 1857

Complicated series of events which concluded with us supreme court decision

13th Amendment

Jan 31, 1865

Freed the slaves

Civil rights act of 1866

Apr 6, 1866

Momentous chapter in development for civil equality

14th Amendment

Jul 9, 1868

Granted citizenship

15th Amendment

Feb 3, 1870

Gave right to vote

Civil rights act of 1875

Mar 1, 1875

law for all persons regardlles of race entitled to equal enjoyment

Plessy Vs Fergyson

Apr 13, 1896

Court Holding for constitutionality of state law requiring racial segregation

Brown Vs B.O.E.

May 17, 1954

law suit for segregated education

Montgomery Bus boycott

Dec 1, 1955

13 month mass protest

Civil rights act of 1957

Sep 9, 1957

Primarily a voting bill that enacted for civil rights

Little Rock 9

Sep 23, 1957

Group of 9 african americans enrolled Little Rock high school

Freedom Righters

May 4, 1961

7 blacks 6whites left Washington D.C on public buses

March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

March at Lincoln memorial for jobs and freedom

Freedomw Summer

Jun 1, 1964

Intensive voter registration activities

Murder of 3 Civil rights Workers in Mississippi

Jun 21, 1964

3 Civil rights workers working to register black voter in Mississippi, murdered by Ku Klux Klan

Civil rights act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

Provisions of this civil act forbade discrimination on the loss of sex as well as race

Selma Campaihn

Feb 18, 1965

Bloody day during march to Montgomery, where a mob of officers threw tear gas and beat the african american protesters.

Assassination of Malcolm X

Feb 21, 1965

Black muslim leader shot.

Voting rights act of 1965

Mar 15, 1965

every american citizen has th right to vote

Appointment of Thurgood Marshall

Oct 2, 1967

Black Supreme court official

Assassination of MLK

Apr 4, 1968

Shot in Memphis hotel by James Ray

Civil rights act of 1968

Apr 11, 1968

Equal housing oppourtunities

Election of Shirley Chisholm

Jul 1, 1971

First black women running for president