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Fight for Civil Rights in The United States

By shadie wahdan

  • Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery and established The Underground Railroad

    Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery and established The Underground Railroad
    Harriet Tubman was an African American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the south and created the secert network "The Underground Railroad" to help the other slaves to escape to other states that is free from slavery.

  • The Fugitive Slave Act was established

    The Fugitive Slave Act was established
    The Fugitive Slave Act was a pair of federal laws that allowed to capture the escaped slaves and return them back to slavery in the south.

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected presidet

    Abraham Lincoln is elected presidet
    Abraham Lincoln electionAbraham Lincoln got elected President for The United States of America in November 6, 1860. He was the first republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote.

  • The South seceded and Forms a new nation, The Confederate States of America

    The South seceded and Forms a new nation, The Confederate States of America
    The border states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri remained with a union together and decided to create their own country and they established a separate government.

  • Abraham Licoln issues The Emancipation Proclamation

    Abraham Licoln issues The Emancipation Proclamation
    Emancipation ProclamationOn this day, Abraham Lincoln issued The Emancipation Proclamation. Which means that he set a date to free more than 3 millions black slaves in the United States.

  • The Civil War ends after the Confederate army surrenders; The Union wins the war

    The Civil War ends after the Confederate army surrenders; The Union wins the war
    In this day General Robert E. Lee,,commander of Confederate forces in the west, signed the surrender terms, offered by the union. With this surrender it was the end of the Four years of Civil War.

  • Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

    Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
    In this day Abraham Lincoln was at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. When John Wilkes sneaked behind the President and shot him. It was only five days after the confederate surrendered.

  • Mark Twain writes Huckleberry Finn, the tales of the white boy helping a slave escape

    Mark Twain writes Huckleberry Finn, the tales of the white boy helping a slave escape
    Mark Twain wrote this noval in 1885. This book was famous for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. It explains how a white boy helped a black man slave to escape.

  • The Civil Rights movement takes place in the US where millions of people fought for equal rights

    The Civil Rights movement takes place in the US where millions of people fought for equal rights
    Civil Rights movementThe Civil Rights movement was divided into several phases, each began with isolated and small protests. Then the movement spreaded all over US with a big numbers of people .

  • Barak Obama was elected as president of The United States

    Barak Obama was elected as president of The United States
    President Barak Obama Barak Obama was the senator of illinois. In January 20, 2009, he got elected as a president of The United Staes of America. Also Barak Obama is black, that shows how the history of United States changed in the last century.