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