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Civil rights
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Dutch and slaves
Dutch slave trader brings slaves to Jamestown. Trades them for food.
They become indentured servents -
Lucy Terry
The first African American poet.
She wrote about an attack on a white family by Native Americans -
Slavery illegal
slavery is made illegal in the north west territory -
Fugitive Slave Law
Laws are passed so that an escaped slave must be returned to their master. this consernes state lines. -
Gabriel Prosser
A slave leader, atempts to unite slaves to march on Richmond, Virgina. He fails and is killed. Virginia's slave laws become more strict. -
Slavery Banned
Congress bans the importation of slaves. -
The Missouri Compromise
Bands slavery north of the southern boundery of Missouri -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Written by Harriet Beecher Stow, shows northerners ( and southerners) the terrors of slavery. -
Thirteenth Amendment
Abolished slavery in the United states -
Fourteenth Amendment
was ratifide Difined what was an American citizen, everyone born in the US was given their "privilages and imunities" (including blacks) -
Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits gov. to disallow any citizen's vote, due to color, race or religion. This focused on racism.
