3/5 Compromise agreement on how to count slaves for representation in Congress
"It is found by experience, that freed Negroes and mulattoes are idle and slothful, and often prove burdensome to the neighborhood wherein they live, and are of evil examples to slaves.“ Delaware's Act of 1767
free states slave states where slavery was illegal, i.e. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, California, Oregon where slavery was legal, i.e. South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi
Abolition The Underground Railroad movement to make slavery illegal system that helped slaves escape and travel to free states or Canada
Civil War a conflict of both economics and racism
Thirteenth Amendment Fifteenth Amendment law that made slavery illegal in the US law that gave all men the right to vote in the US, regardless of race/color
Reconstruction period after the Civil War when the Confederate states were supposed to be rebuilt or improved
Jim Crow black face all the stereotypes of black people; also laws and attitudes towards black people after the Civil War a racist form of ‘entertainment’ where white people dress up as black people
share cropping system of agriculture that kept black people in poverty after the Civil War
Ku Klux Klan racist organization started by former Confederate soldiers and supporter
segregation system of laws and behavior that kept black and white people separate for about 100 years
Brown v. Board of Education first major legal win in the Civil Rights movement, involving a little girl in 1954
The Little Rock Nine black high school students in 1957 who wanted to attend a school that previously had only had white students
Greenboro lunch counter sit-ins a peaceful demonstration started by university students in 1960 in North Carolina
voter intimidation method of keeping undesirable people (i.e. blacks) from exercising their political rights as citizens
Lynchings in the United States
Emmett Till a 14-year-old black boy who was murdered for whistling at a white woman in 1955; one of the major events that sparked the Civil Rights movement
Medgar Evers a political activist murdered by the KKK in 1963
Loving v. Virginia a black and white couple got married, but moved to a place where that was illegal; their battle changed the laws across the US
Civil Rights Act of 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1968 law that made it illegal to discriminate against people in general based on race law that made it illegal to discriminate against people in housing (i.e. who you sold a house or rented an apartment to) based on race