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King George
Once the French and Indain war ended Great Britain went into debt so they raised taxes. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The tax stamp had to go on every legal document. -
Boston Massacre
In the Boston Massacre 5 colonists were killed. Sam Adams asked Paul Revere paint a picture of the British open firing on innocent people to make the British soldiers look bad. -
Boston Tea Party
After the French and Indian war Great Britiain was in debt so they taxed tea. When the british found about it they dressed up like Indians an threw it over board. -
Nat Turner Slave Revolt
On November 11, 1831 there was a slave rebellion in Virginia on an d August 21, 1831 56 deaths among the white people. That was the largest number of white fatalities to occur in one uprising in the United States. Turner's killings of the white during the uprising makes his legacy controversial. Because Turner's action he was sentenced to death and executed. In the aftermath the states executed 56 black people accused of being involved in Turner's rebellion. -
Amistad Slave Ship Revolt
On July 1839 Africans took over a ship and then they were captured off the coast of Long Island by the USS Washington. The ship was taken over by the United States, causing a US Supreme Court case (1841) over the status of the Africans importation of slaves into the US had been prohibited since 1808. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation consists of the executive orders issued by the United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. The first one was issued September 22, 1862 declaring the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that didn't return to Union control by January 1, 1862. The second rule, issued January 1, 1863, named ten states where it would apply. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
On December 1,1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, age 42, refused to obey the bus driver James Blake's order to give up her seat to make room for a white person on the bus. Her action was not the first of its kind. Irene Morgan in 1946 and Sarah Louise keys in 1955 had won there cases in the US Supreme Court. -
Malcolm X assassinated
Malcolm X was a African-American Muslim minster, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white American in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. His detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
Martin Luther King was shot well he was walking out of a church. He was fighting for blacks to be treated fair like the white man.
