1. Slavery: no freedom, no rights, Slave states
Civil Rights
Slavery: no freedom, no rights, Slave states

2. Slavery: no Freedom, no Rights
slave-a person held as the property of another person
slavery-the practice of owning human beings
necessary evil-something we need even though we don’t like it
abolitionists-people who wanted slavery ended permanently(abolished)
Nat Turner-led a slave rebellion that murdered slave owners
Dred Scott-tried to gain his freedom by suing the government because he had lived in free states where slavery was illegal.

3. Slave States, Free States
Missouri Compromise-this compromise allowed Missouri to be admitted to the United States as a slave state and Maine to be admitted as a free state to maintain the balance of power between the North and South.
Missouri Compromise-this compromise allowed California to be admitted to the United States as a free state, but the new territories of Utah and New Mexico would decide for themselves whether to allow slavery or not.
Fugitive Slave Act-penalized citizens for helping runaway slaves and required them to cooperate with the process of returning slaves to their owners.

4. Civil War and Reconstruction
secession-means separation or breaking away
Emancipation Proclamation-the declaration issued by
President Lincoln that all slaves in the South were free.
13th Amendment-outlawed slaves in the United States
reconstruction-the period of rebuilding after the Civil War
14th Amendment-guaranteed citizenship to all people born in the U.S. It also gave all citizens the right to due process and equal protection under the law.
15th Amendment-gave all men the right to vote regardless of their race or whether they had been slaves before the war.

5. Jim Crow
undermine-someone trying to weaken your efforts to do something
Black Codes-laws that created a legal form of segregation that limited the rights and freedoms of black people.
Segregation-separation of races
Jim Crow- when a white actor would cover his face with charcoal and then sing and dance in a silly uncomplimentary way. People began to use this term as a way to describe black people.

6. heritage-if a person were trying to prove he/she was not black they would have to go back at least three generations to make sure there was no African heritage.
miscegenation-means mixing of races.
interracial-more than one race.
public accommodation-a place where people spend time. EX: pools, theaters, libraries
Voting Rights Act of 1965-this act banned racial discrimination in state and federal elections.
Plessy vs Ferguson-established that is was legal to create “separate but equal” public settings.