In June 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed. It was a statement of reasons for the separation between Britain. The declaration sited that "all men are created equal." It meant that people shouldn't be judged by the color of their skin nor their religion. Throughout the whole declaration, amendments have been added to make the world more equal. For example, the fifteenth amendment granted African American males the right to vote, and then in 1920 the nineteenth amendment granted women the right to vote. African Americans could not help in the Declaration of Independence.

The three-fifths compromise was at the constitutional convention. It called for three fifths of a states slave population to be counted for purposes of representation. If slaves were to be included in a state population count, the southern sates with their many slaves, would go into great power in the House of Representatives. If they were counted, southern states would be weak in the house. The African Americans still weren't allowe

In March 1897 the Supreme Court handed down on of the most controversial decisions in its history, Scott V. Sanford. The case stated when Dred Scott, an enslaved man living in Missouri, had filed suit against his owner, they argued that because he and his wife had once lived in states and territories where slavery was illegal, they thought they should be free. The justices held that Scott, therefore, all slaves, were not citizens and had no right to sue in court, it ended up saying the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and slaves were the property of there owners. The courts hoped not to deal with slavery issues again.

d to vote and their interests wouldn't be represented in congress.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act. It was a law in 1854 that called on citizen in each territory to deicide the issue of slavery there. It, also, supported the practice of popular sovereignty, or letting the people in a territory decide whether slavery would be allowed there. Douglass asked the nation to repel the Missouri Compromise and rely on popular sovereignty and not of the latitudes. After the months of debate, congress passed the act. Douglass's own party members were outraged by it. They saw Douglass as a sell out to the south.

So, all these things mentioned above all added to the national debate over slavery between 17__-1860. They all had something to do with slavery. They helped it and then they didn't.

The Missouri Compromise was signed into law in 1820. It is also called The Compromise of 1820. It had two main points. First one was that slavery would be permitted in Misso

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