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The Jacksonian Democracy was the start of the current democratic party. It expanded the right to vote to most white men above the age of 21.

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Antebellum was the time leading up to the American Civil War.

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Fredrick Douglass was one of the main abolitionist during this time. He was a self liberated slave from Maryland who worked closely with William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Abraham Lincoln.

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Stanton was a co-founder of the Seneca Falls conference and an anti-racist hero

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The compromise fo 1850 was a group of bills passed that covered slavery laws for different states including newly acquired states from the Mexican-American war. One of the main bills past stated that California was a free state.

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The Fugitive Slave Act was two laws that allowed and encouraged the hunting and capturing of escaped slaves. The government told slave hunters to bring back hunted slaves to court and have them tried. The main flaw of this act was that the court didn't ask for documentation so hunters could bring back anyone they found and make a profit.

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The Civil War ended in 1865 and this started the Reconstruction period in America. Three major amendments were added to the constitution during reconstruction. The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment banned slavery unless as a punishment for crime, clarified who was an American citizen and stopped the U.S. Government from denying citizens the right to vote based on race, color, or past servitude.

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Although 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments seem great, the U.S. Government made sure that there were plenty of workarounds and counteracting laws. These laws and codes allowed for a similar exploitation of black citizens to when they were enslaved.

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The Prison Lease System started and ended at many different times in different states in America. The system allowed companies to rent workers who were imprisoned. Companies paid the prisons which allowed for both the companies and the prisons to profit off of slave like exploitation. Prisons at the time were almost entirely full of black, wrongly arrested convicts.

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Du Bois was an activist in the late 1800s and early 1900s who is known for being one of the founders of the NAACP. He famously argued with Booker T. Washington about the integration of black people in America. Du Bois believed for full civil rights and Washington believed in working in America as citizens without full civil rights.

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The Great Migration started around 1915 but lasted a long time. Many African Americans moved from the South to the Northern and West states for better jobs and less discrimination.

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Red Summer was during the summer of 1919 when many businesses were facing labor shortages due to many citizens going off to war. This caused many black Americans to be hired into low paying industrial jobs. In 1919, when the war was over many white men returned from war and started to look for work. When they say many jobs had been filled by black citizens, tensions started to rise. This caused many white Americans to attend violent riots and caused many black Americans deaths.

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The Harlem Renaissance was a period in the early 1920s that was a culture outburst lead by many black activists and artists/musicians.

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West was a short story writer during the Renaissance. Her most famous novel was called The Living is Easy. Many of her pieces discuss the story of a black girl living in a rich household.

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Mills was a performer and dancer. She started performing at a young age and was one of the most famous dancers throughout the Renaissance. Her most famous performance was too the song "I'm a little Blackbird."

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Webb was a jazz musician and drummer. He was injured as a child which caused him to lose mobility. He got his first professional gig at 11 and he lead his first band at 17.

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The Civil Rights Movement lasted from 1954-1968. This was right after segregation was made illegal but many states weren't following the new law. Many black leaders and citizens stood up during this time and protested for their rights.

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The Freedom Riders were a group of black and white activists who travelled through the South to see whether the desegregation laws were being enforced. They were beat and imprisoned and discriminated the whole trip but persisted and kept traveling.