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1492 Christopher Columbus first landed in America -
America fighted aganist the Great britain
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The Declaration of Independence, the founding document of the United States, was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain
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Were the american got their indepedence from the great britain
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The tension between north and south grew until Abraham Lincoln was elected president
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Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves were now free -
the south surrendered, and the United States were once again one country, now without slavery -
After the Civil war the (kkk) formed -
the African American population in the southern states was subjected to discrimination and often violence by the white population
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They worked to gain equal rights for black and white.
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change were made with the rights act of 1964 that banned the discrimination
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the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that restored the right to vote to minorities -
the Fair Housing Act of 1968 that banned discrimination in the sale and rental of housing.
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Barack Obama was the first black president of the USA
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In 2012, a young African American boy named Trayvon Martin was killed by a neighborhood watchman named George Zimmerman
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Zimmerman alleged self-defense and was acquitted for second-degree murder in 2013. As a result of the verdict, the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter went viral - starting on Twitter. Now, Black Lives Matter is a movement, and people have protested in its name at different occasions. Not least, it is used in protests that claim that the police are more likely to shoot and kill a black person than a white person.
