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Period: Jan 30, 1528 to
Europeans bring slaves to America
Europeans began to colonize the new world and brought African slaves to America.
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr1.html) -
Cotton gin was invented in the U.S
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job that otherwise must be performed painstakingly by hand and it was invented by Eil Whitney.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin) -
Fugitive slave act
The federal acts of 1793 and 1850 providing for the return between states of escaped black slaves. Similar laws existing in both North and South in colonial days applied also to white indentured servants and to Native American slaves.
(http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/SlaveActs.html) -
Slavery ends in Great Britain
In 1807 an act of abolition was passed in slavery in Great Britain. Even though behind closed doors it does still exist in Great Britain and other countries.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter8.shtml) -
The amistad mutiny and trial
It was a United States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of Africans on board the Spanish schooner La Amistad in 1839.
(http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/amistd.htm) -
Slavery ends in France.
Slavery was finally abolished in all French territories in 1848. No one can be sure about when it really ended but this is a date that came up often.
(http://etymonline.com/columns/frenchslavery.htm) -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850.
(http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html) -
Fugitive slave act
The federal acts of 1793 and 1850 providing for the return between states of escaped black slaves. Similar laws existing in both North and South in colonial days applied also to white indentured servants and to Native American slaves.
(http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/SlaveActs.html). -
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The Civil War is fought in the United States of America.
The Civil War was fought in thousands of different places, from southern Pennsylvania to Texas; from New Mexico to the Florida coast. The last battle took place on May 13th 1865. -
Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of the bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
(http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/) -
U.S ratifies 13th amendment to the constitution
The 13th amendment to the us outlaws slavery except punishment for crime.
(http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html) -
Slavery ends in the United States
The The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery throughout the United States. It ends specifically on June 19th 1865.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States) -
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Jim Crow laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate
but equal" status for African Americans.
(http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm) -
Brown vs. Board of education(U.S. Supreme Court case)
It was a giant step towards complete desegregation in schools mostly. Brown was the father of a girl that couldn't enrol into a school with white people. He fought hard and finaly won the battle for 9 voted for a 0 votes against.
(http://www.infoplease.com/us/supreme-court/cases/ar04.html) -
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Civil rights movement for african americans in the U.S.
The African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) refers to the social movements in the United States aimed at outlawing racial discrimination against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955–1968)) -
The murder of Emmett Hill
He is an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. He was brutally killed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till) -
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Freedom Riders movement
Freedom Riders movement is when people started to fight for their rights, they challenged segregation. More than 400 black and white people risked their lives. They rode around in buses seating in all seats. They got beaten up, sweared at and much more. -
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. built a crescendo to his final speech on April 3, 1968. The next day, the civil rights leader was shot and killed on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.) -
The last country in the world to ban slavery
The last country to ban slavery was Mauritania even though they didn't make slavery a crime until 2007 and only one slave owner has been succesfully prosecuted.
(http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania.slaverys.last.stronghold/index.html)
