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Antislavery sentiments in America movement
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery Antislavery sentiments in America movement gained momentum over the next few decades. This lead to Lincoln's 1862 Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in rebel states. -
Slavery
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3406400017.html African American</a>The first 20 African Americans who settled in American were treated like property. They sold them to settlers in Virginia as "indentured servants. This meant that they each got a master that they had to serve for 4 to 7 years. They did receive food, clothing, and shelter but they weren't all treated nicely. It all depended on how well they served their master. -
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Lucy Terry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Terry Lucy Terry was an enslaved person who became known as the earliest black American poet. She wrote about a American Indian that got attacked in her village which is in Deerfield, Massachusetts. -
The Declaration of Independence
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/declaration-of-independence The Declaration of Independence was written, it stated that “all men are created equal”. This meant that white men had equal rights, not black men or women. -
Slavery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Ordinance Slavery was legalized in the Northwest Territory. -
Constitution Adopted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise' >Three-fifths Compromise Due to the three-fifths compromise, slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person. Because people from the South and North didn't want slaves to have the same rights as whites. -
Federal Fugitive Salve Law
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts Federal Fugitive Slave Laws</a>During this time, the federal fugitive slave law was passes. This law gave you a reward if you brought back a slave back that escaped and crossed state lines. -
Eli Whitney
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/cotton-gin-patent Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, increased the demand for slave labor. -
Slave Trade
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-abolishes-the-african-slave-trade Congress decides to ban the importation of slaves from Africa. -
The Missouri Compromise
http://www.historynet.com/missouri-compromise The Missouri Compromise ban slavery in north part of the southern boundary Missouri. -
Denmark Vesey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark_Vesey Denmark Vesey was an enslaved African American carpenter who had purchased his freedom. He planned a slave revolt with the intent to lay siege on Charleston, South Carolina. This caused 34 slaves to be hanged. -
Nat Tuner
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/4574 Nat Turner lead slave revolt in Virginia that killed about 65 people. But in result the government put them down, and executed 56 of their slaves. -
Trial of Tears
http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears Trail of Tears, was when 18,000 Cherokees were forced removed from their land and to resettle inwest of the Mississippi. -
African American Slaves
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1997-12-06/lifestyle/9712040439_1_amistad-incident-slave-ship-amistad-sierra-leone African American slaves on board the slave ship, the Amistad revolted against their captors and killed everyone but the ship's navigator. -
Seneca Falls
http://www.historynet.com/seneca-falls-convention During the First Woman's Rights Convention meeting in Seneca Falls, New York Elizabeth Cady Stanton proposed to giving women the right to vote. -
Dred Scott
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott Dred Scott was a slave tha lived in free terrtiory. He tired to sue for his freedom. The court said, that slaves were not citizens and had no rights to sue, and that slave owners could take their slaves anywhere on the territory and retain title to them. So he ended up losing the trial. -
Civil War
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/topic/american-civil-war/ The Civil War began. It determine the survival of the independence for the Confederacy. -
Abraham Lincoln
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/ Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." In other words, this proclamation said that alll slaves should be free. -
Black Codes
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-codes Black codes were passed by Southern states. It restricted the rights of newly freed slaves, and working in a labor economy based on low wages. -
Civil War of 1865
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/ Civil War ends. About 1,264,000 American soldiers died in this war. -
The KKK
http://www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan The Ku Klux Klan (The KKK) was founded. It was terrorist organization that hated anybody who wasn't white. If you are white then they would kill you. -
Central Pacific Railroad
http://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/wordpress/timeline/ Mary Cassatt and 2,000 Chinese workers from the Central Pacific Railroad went on a strike for better pay. Cassatt was burned to death by whites. -
14th Amendment
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv The 14th Amendment was passed. It stated, that African Americans are full citizens of the United States and it prohibit states from denying them with equal protection. This led to 373 freed slaves being killed by whites. -
15th Amendment
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/15thamendment.html The 15th Amendment was passed. It guaranteed everyone the right to vote no matter what their race was. However, the first "Jim Crow" law or segregation law was passed too in Tennessee mandating the separation of African Americans from whites everywhere. So basically African Americans were banned from white hotels, barber shops, restaurants, theaters and other public accommodations. -
Louisa Swain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Ann_Swain Louisa Swain was the first women to cast a legal ballot in the nation. -
Civil Right Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 Civil Rights Act was passed. It guaranteed African Americans equal rights in transportation, restaurants or inns, theaters and on juries. -
Gabriel Prosser
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/prosser-gabriel-1775-1800 Gabriel Prosser was an enslaved African American blacksmith, who organized a slave revolt intending to march on Richmond, Virginia. This led to several of those slaves and inculding Prosser being hanged. Which caused Virginia's slave laws to tightened. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Chinese-Exclusion-Act Congress pass the Chinese Exclusion Act restricting the immigration of all Chinese laborers for 10 years. It also and required Chinese to carry identification cards. In 1892, the act is extended for another 10 years. -
Scott Act
http://immigrants.harpweek.com/ChineseAmericans/2KeyIssues/ScottAct.htm Congress passes the Scott Act prohibits resident Chinese laborers who left United States to return back ununless they have family in this country. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court rules that state laws requiring separation of the races are within the bounds of the Constitution. -
Lynching
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/peopleevents/e_lynch.html
http://www.chesnuttarchive.org/classroom/lynchingstat.html Lynching is an extrajudicial punishment, which most often uses public execution of African Americans. During 1886 and 1900, there were amore than 2,500 lynchings in the nation. In the first year, more than 100 African Americans were lynched. By the time World War I, more than 1100 African Americans were lynched. -
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey establish the Universal Negro Improvement Association. It was an influential black nationalist organization "to promote the spirit of race pride" and create a sense of worldwide unity of blacks. -
World War 1
World War 1 began, blacks were being treated really bad. Black soldiers decide to fight for freedom, while stilling fighting in segregated units. -
End of World War 1 and Treaty of Versailles
http://ww120.weebly.com/what-were-the World War 1 ended. It cause lots of destruction and human slaughter. So the Allied troops decide to created a peace treaty with Germany, hoping that would fix it. They called the peace treaty "Treaty of Versailles." -
19th amendment
http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/19th-amendment 19th amendment was passed then ratified. It gave women the right to vote. -
Indian Citizenship Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 was passed. Native Americans were finally considered citizens of the United States. -
World War 2
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history Hitler invaded Poland from the west, France and Britain declared war on German, this began World War II. Then the Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east, under attack from both sides. Poland fell quickly, and by early 1940 Germany and the Soviet Union had divided. -
End of World War 2
http://www.english-online.at/history/world-war-2/results-and-aftermath-of-world-war-ii.htm World War 2 ended, the countries that fought with Hitler lost their territory. They also had to pay reparations to the Allies. Germany and its capital Berlin were divided into four parts. These zones were controlled by Great Britain, the United States, France and the Soviet Union. -
President Truman
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/anniversaries/desegblurb.htm President Truman signs the Executive Order 9981. Which states, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." This means that everyone should have the same rights no matter of what race, color, religion or national origin you are. -
Civil Rights Movement
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement The civil rights movement helped African Americans have equal access to any opportunities. It also help them get privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. -
Brown v. Board of Education
http://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/history-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment The Supreme Court rules that Brown v. Board of Education case agreed that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. This decision overturned to the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson. It ruled that sanctioned "separate but equal" segregation of the races, ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." -
Rosa Parks
http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715 Rosa Parks was African American, who refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger. Blacks were only allowed to sit in the back of the bus. She was arrested, for not gving up her seat. This led to boycotting the bus. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086 Martin Luther King was arrested during anti-segregation protest in Birmingham, Alambam. He wrote a seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail," arguing that individuals have a moral duty to disobey unjust laws. -
Killing everyone that is not white
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing The Ku Klux Klan bombed the black's 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama killing four little girls. -
President Johnson
http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/lyndon-b-johnson President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. It also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation. -
Malcolm X
http://malcolmx.com/ Malcolm X was a black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity who was shot to death. It was believed that the assailants were members of the Black Muslim faith, which Malcolm had recently abandoned in favor of orthodox Islam. -
Literacy Test
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_rights_and_the_supreme_court_the_impossible_literacy_test_louisiana.html Literacy Test was introduced, it was a test that was incrediable impossible to pass. Black were told take and pass it if want they to vote. So they did give a chance, but not a fair chance. Because even if you were smartest black person out there, you would fail. It was made to restrict blacks from voting. -
Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
http://bjconline.org/rluipa/ The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act or (RLUIPA) was passed. it provided new protections for religious freedom without undermining the state or civil rights laws. RLUIPA focused on land used for churches, synagogues, and other religious groups. -
Colin Powell
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/pow0bio-1
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/powell-colin-luther.html Colin Powell was the first African American to be accepted into the government to become U.S. Secretary of State. -
Condoleezza Rice
http://www.biography.com/people/condoleezza-rice-9456857 Condoleezza Rice was the first black female to become U.S. Secretary of State and to welcome into the government. -
Civil Rights Act of 2008
https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/senate-bill/2554 Senator Edward Kennedy introduced the Civil Rights Act of 2008. It established discrimination based on disparate impact, and rights of action and recovery for unlawful discrimination. -
Barack Obama
http://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/when-did-barack-obama-become/2014/09/28/id/592490/ Barack Obama was a Democrat from Chicago, that became the first African-American president and the country's 44th president. -
Michael Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown Michael Brown, was an unarmed 18-year-old African America who was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri by officer Darren Wilson. During the grand jury decision there was a protest going on in Ferguson and cities across the U.S. such as Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Boston. -
114th Congress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/114th_United_States_Congress In the114th Congress they had 46 black members in the House of Representatives and two in the Senate. -
Little Rock Nine
http://http://time.com/3874341/little-rock-nine-1957-photos Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students from Little Rock Central High School. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which was prevented them from entering the racially segregated
