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Period: Jan 1, 1528 to
European Explorers bring slaves to the Americas.
The first slaves where brought to the Americas throught the Atlantic mostly from the African Continent.The first African slaves arrived as part of the San Miguel de Gualdape colony.They were brought to serve as free labor for the slave master. -
Cotton gin is invented in U.S
wikipediaA cotton gin is a machine that separates cotton fibers from their seeds, it was made for greater productivity than manual cotton separation. The fibers are made into cotton goods, and the seeds may be used to grow more cotton.the first modern mechanical cotton gin. It was created by American inventor Eli Whitney. -
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Fugitive slave laws
The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped throught different states and territories. -
Slavery ends in Great Britain.
wikipediawas an 1833 Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire. -
The Amistad mutiny and trial
Law CornellWas a United States Supreme Court case resulting in the rebellion of Africans on the Spanish schooner La Amistad ship in 1839. It was an unusual "freedom suit" which engaged international issues and parties and United States law. -
The Compromise of 1850.
www.loc.govThe Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed in the United States, which created a conflict between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North concerning the territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. The deal avoided further slavery problems or civil war and reduced conflict for four years. -
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The Civil War is fought in the United States of America.
The war had its origin in the issue of slavery, and, after four years of fighting , the Confederacy was defeated, slavery was abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring unity and guaranteeing rights to the freed slaves began. -
Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.
ArchivesEmancipation Proclamation was an order issued to the executive bratch in the U.S by Abraham lincoln during the Civil war. It said that all those enslaved in Confederate territory to be forever free and to treat as free in all ten states that were still in rebellion. -
Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
wikipediaThe Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary slavery, except for a punishment as a crime. It was passed by the United States Senate on April 8, 1864, and was used in December 6, 1865. -
Slavery ends in the United States.
ourdocumentsThe end of slavery was brought by a civil war that abolished slavery.THe war was against the Confederate States created a reconstruction in unity and rights to free slaves. -
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Jim Crow laws
They were about segregating black and white people in all public buildings. Black people were usually treated worse than white people. This segregation was also done in the army and in schools. -
Slavery in Brazil ends
Slavery was finally abolished in Brazil on 13 May 1888. It was the last nation in the Western world to end the institution of slavery. -
Brown vs. Board of education(U.S. Supreme Court case)
wikipediaIs a United state supreme court case that states that established separate public schools for black and white children was unconstitutional. -
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African-American Civil Rights Movement
Are social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them. -
The murder of Emmett Till
NewstoneEmmett Louis Till was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. He spoke to Carolyn Bryant, the married owner of a grocery store. Bryant's husband Roy and J. W. Milam arrived at Till's great-uncle's house where they killed him. -
Freedom Riders movement
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to test the United States Supreme Court decisions Boynton v. Virginia (1960) and Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946). -
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.
at 6:01 p.m., April 4, 1968, a shot rang out as King stood on the motel's second-floor balcony where he stayed as a visitor.On March 29, 1968, King went to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of the black sanitary public works employees who were on strike due to low wages. -
The last country in the world to ban slavery (Mauritania)
wikipediaIt has been proven that various forms of slavery are still practiced in Mauritania. But in 2007 it became illegal to own slaves.The owning of slaves was legally abolished in 1981.
