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1492
Christopher Columbus discover America
1492 Christopher Columbus first landed in America -
The American War of Independence
America fighted aganist the Great britain -
The Declaration of Independence
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 -
the end of the American War of Indepedence
Were the american got their indepedence from the great britain -
The American Civil War
The tension between north and south grew until Abraham Lincoln was elected president -
Emancipation for the slaves
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves were now free -
The end of the Civil War
the south surrendered, and the United States were once again one country, now without slavery -
The ku Klux Klan (KKK)
After the Civil war the (kkk) formed -
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Fighting for equality
the African American population in the southern states was subjected to discrimination and often violence by the white population -
The americans civil rights
They worked to gain equal rights for black and white. -
Civil rights
change were made with the rights act of 1964 that banned the discrimination -
Civil rights
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that restored the right to vote to minorities -
Civil rights
the Fair Housing Act of 1968 that banned discrimination in the sale and rental of housing. -
The first black president
Barack Obama was the first black president of the USA -
Racist violence
In 2012, a young African American boy named Trayvon Martin was killed by a neighborhood watchman named George Zimmerman -
#BlackLivesMatter
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.
