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The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. The Civil War had officially abolished slavery, but it didn’t end discrimination against blacks—they continued to endure the devastating effects of racism, especially in the South. By the mid-20th century, African Americans had had more than enough of prejudice and violence against them.
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a group of men called the founding Fathers and completed with the Bill of Rights in 1791. In 1789 George Washington who was one of the founding Fathers, became the first President.
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From 1775 to before britin gave the new nation coplete independence
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250,000 slaves were taken to America. Most people thought it was ok to have slaves.
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When the European came to USA they took land and fought the people who lived there.
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The Independence day is 4. July
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It took eight years of conflict, from 1773 to 1783 before Britain gave the new nation complete independence.
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Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught lawyer, legislator and vocal opponent of slavery, was elected 16th president of the United States in November 1860, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and Baptist minister who played a key role in the American civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968. King sought equality and human rights for African Americans, the economically disadvantaged and all victims of injustice through peaceful protest
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Barack Obama was president from 2009 to 2017.
