Middle Passage

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• Middle Passage

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• Slaves brought through Africa on Triangular Trade

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• 3/5ths Compromise

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• Slaves would count as 3/5ths of a white person to
  determine the population of a state for taxation
  and representatives in the House of
  Representatives.

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• Slave Codes

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• Laws designed to limit the rights of blacks
  (before the Civil War).
• Slaves cannot be taught to read and write
• Slaves need a pass when leaving a plantation
• designed to make it difficult for slaves to
  escape

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• Missouri Compromise

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• 1820
• Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a
  free stateAND drew an imaginary line where
  slaver was permitted to the South of it and
  banned to the North of it in the new territories
  of the U.S.

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• Compromise of 1850

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• California enters U.S. as a free state.
• New Mexico Utah voters would decide if they
  want slavery.

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• Fugitive Slave Law 1850

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• Part of the Compromise of 1850 that stated all
  people should help catch runaway slaves. If
  anyone is caught letting a slave escape they
  could be fined an/or jailed.

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• Abolition

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• A movement to end slavery.

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• Underground Railroad

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• Secret network of stops with the goal of allowing
  slaves to escape into freedom. Harriet Tubman
  helped many slaves escape on the underground
  railroad.

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• Dred Scott
• Case

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• Said slavery was legal in all the territories of
  the U.S. and that the Missouri Compromise was
  unconstitutional. Dred Scott was a slave that
  sued for his freedom, but he did not have the
  right to sue in the courts.

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• Uncle Toms Cabin

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• Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which
  showed the evils of slavery and upset the people
  of the North before the Civil War.

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• Sojourner Truth

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• Former slave who spoke out against slavery.

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• Frederick
• Douglass

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• Former slave who also spoke out against slavery.
  He was an excellent speaker, literate, and the
  best known African American abolitionist.

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• EmancipationProclamation

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• Created in 1863 during the Civil War in order to
  boost support for the norths (Unions) cause.
  Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the states
  in rebellion (the Confederate states).

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• 13th Amendment

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• Freed slaves

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• 14th Amendment

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• Made former slaves citizens (declared that anyone
  born in the U.S. is a citizen)

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• 15th Amendment

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• Gave slaves the right to vote

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• Jim Crow Laws

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• Established segregation (dividing public places
  by race). African Americans lost some of their
  political, voting, power with Poll
  TaxLiteracy Tests
• Grandfather clause

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• Plessy vs.
• Ferguson

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• 1896 court case that allowed separate but equal
  facilities. It legalized segregation in schools,
  buses, etcand made the Jim Crow laws legal

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• NAACP(National Association for the Advancement
  of Colored People)

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• Group created in 1909 with the purpose of gaining
  equal rights for African Americans.

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• Civil Rights Movement

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• 1950s
• Efforts of black leaders to achieve equality

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• Brown
• vs.
• Board of Education

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• 1954 Supreme Court case that stated separate was
  NOT equal, schools to be desegregated (no
  discrimination).

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• RosaParks

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• 1955
• Fought segregation on buses in Alabama. Dr.
  Martin Luther King leads a bus boycott

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• Martin
• LutherKing, Jr.

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• Insisted on civil disobedience nonviolent
  protest against unjust laws.

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• Civil Rights Act of 1964

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• Protected the right of all citizens to vote

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• 24thAmendment

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• Banned poll taxes (1964)

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• Voting Rights Act

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• Ended literacy tests

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• Malcolm X

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• Black Muslim leader who wished for black-white
  integration

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• Black Panthers

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• Wanted blacks to arm themselves and fight for
  their rights if necessary during the 1960s

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• Affirmative Action

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• Provides equal opportunities in colleges and
  workplaces for minorities and women. (created in
  the 1970s)