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Period: Jan 1, 1528 to
European Explorers bring slaves to the Americas
During the European Exploration, Europeans brought slavery and slaves into America. They thought dark-skinned people as their servants. Many people disagreed with it, and it got abolished about 300 years later. -
Slavery ends in Russia
The slavery in Russia got abolished in 1723, by Peter the Great converting slaves into serfs. -
Cotton gin is invented in U.S.
Eli whitney, the American inventor, invented the cotton gin to quickly separate cottons. It resulted more need of slaves because more cotton was producing. -
Slavery ends in Great Britain
By the powerful anti-slavery group, the Great Britain parliament freed the slaves. -
The Amistad mutiny and trial
European explorers were taking Africans with a ship. The ship got seized, crews got killed and Africans were sent back. -
Compromise of 1850
The pack of bills passed in the US to make all the states more balanced -
Fugitive Slave Act
It was controversial rule, saying that all the slaves have to come back at their master, and if someone helps, the helper also gets punishment. -
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The Civil War is fought in the United States of America
US had divided into Union, opposing slavery, and Confederate, for Slavery. The war started after the slavery was abolished and after 4 years, Union wins and abolishes the slavery -
Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in U.S
It was made by Abraham Lincoln on the first day of 1863, during civil war, to give freedom to slaves. -
Slavery ends in the United States
By many abolitionists and people agains slavery, the slavery abolition rule got passed by senate on April 8th of 1864, by house on January 31st of 1865, and adopted on December 6th of 1865. -
U.S. ratifies 13th amendment to the Constitution.
The slavery in US finally became completely illegal and they adopted it in 1865. -
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Jim Crow Laws
It was a rule separating black and white people, so black people got treated poorly. -
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Freedom Riders movement
They were activists who worked for civil rights. They rode a bus for their activism. -
Brown vs. Board of education (U.S. Supreme Court case)
It is a case that some students weren't able to go school because of race, and it was illegal to do that. -
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Civil Rights Movement for African Americans in the U.S
It was an activism that was done to give both race more rights. -
The murder of Emmett Till
He got killed cruely at the age of 14, just because he was flirting with a white woman. He was African American -
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
The activist, who worked for advancement of civil right, got assassined by sniper when he was standing on the balcony. -
The last country in the world to ban slavery
Mauritania finally abolished the slavery going on their country in 1981.
