"The Zigzag Road to Rights" Reading Review

Northern and Southern slaveholders object to any mention of African American rights in the Declaration of Independence.

• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

• Continental Congress (1776)

• Louisiana's Separate Car Act (1896)

• Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

All people held as slaves would be considered free.

• Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

• Voting Rights Act (1965)

• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Slavery was abolished.

• Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

• Continental Congress (1776)

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Made it illegal for blacks to travel in trains reserved for white people and considered "separate but equal" facilities constitutional.

• Continental Congress (1776)

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

• Louisiana's Separate Car Act (1896)

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Declared separate facilities as inherently unequal and promised an end to segregation.

• Louisiana's Separate Car Act (1896)

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

• Voting Rights Act (1965)

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Outlawed strategies used to prevent blacks from voting.

• Voting Rights Act (1965)

• Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Continental Congress (1776)

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9