Key Events- How the idea of race has developed

By EC270

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    Colonists arrived in Jamestown, and with time colonists begain to expanded. The expanision killed many native american and multiple dieases affect both colonists and Native Americans. Colnist viewed Native Americans as inferior and savages.
  • Period: to

    1600s-200s

  • Legalized Slavery

    The the thought that African people were inferior began to emerge. In 1641 the colony of Mass. was the first colony to legalize slavery

  • Classifying

    Virginia passed two acts that combined Native Americans and Arifcan into two catagories "negroes and other slaves"

  • Punishments for Slaves

    Under this time period multiple punishments for slaves were created to deall with runaway slaves, slaves insulting white masters and stealing. These punishmens included anythinging form whipping to death.

  • "The Selling of Joseph"

    Judge Samuel Sewall was the first publish Ant-slavery lititure. He wrote, "The Selling Josephy".

  • Slaves as Property

    In 1705 Virginia began to establish more clearly that slaves were a form of propery. Slaveholders were used as a collateral to borrrow money, pay debts and trade. Even if a black person escaped and was living as a free man/woman they could potetionally be re-enslaved to settle their former master's debt.

  • Carlus Linnaeus, "Systemae Naturae"

    Carlus Linnaeus published "Systemae Naturae" which made distinctions about populations arcross the globe. His worked help chaaracterize the concept of race.

  • Negro Act of 1740

    Under this act Africans were not allowed to learn how to read, gather in groups, earn money and produce their own food. Also under this act slave owner's were allowed to kill rebellious slaves.

  • Vermont Abolishes Slavery

    Veromont was the first U.S coloney to abolish slavery

  • First US Census

    This census had these catorgorizes listed in on it, European, Native American and African

  • Fugitive Slave Law

    This law stated the slaves must be captured if they run away over state and federal lines.

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

    These laws made it harder for immigrants to become a U.S citizens for example, it increased the time and immigrant had to live in the counrtry in order become a citizen. Eventually these acts were repealed in 1802.

  • Oppsition Agianst Fugitive Slave Laws

    Opposition against fugitive slave laws became organized opposition against slavery in general. The undergroud railroad began to emerage and helped slaves to escape to a life of freedom.

  • The Civil War

    Thie Civil war conflict began April 12, 1861.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Civil War ends

  • Civil Rights Bill

    This bill invalidated the black codes

  • Frederick Dougles

    "The Life and Time of Frederick Dougles" was published in 1881 by abolitionist Frederick Dougles.

  • Dawes Severalty Act

    An act that gave certian pieces of land to Native Americans who qualified, this land decreased as time went on. This act made it eaiser for white settlers to aqquire Native American land as they wen on to expand,

  • NAACP

    In 1901 W.E.B Du Bois invited Afircan American leaders to a conference in Niagra Falls. During this conference the NAACP formed.

  • Right to Vote for Native Americans

    Congress gave Native Americans the right to vote

  • Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of

    A person with even "one drop" of non-white ancestry was classified as "colored" or non-white.

  • Ku Klux Klan

    The KKK reached it's peak of memebers in 1925, but then declined after conviction of the KKK leader.

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    The case stated "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The decision reversed the decision set by the Supreme Court's case Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education (1899), which had validated the segregation of public schools

  • Civil Rights Act

    Congress passed the Civil Rigts Act in 1964

  • The Voting Rights Act

    The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965

  • Loving vs. Virginia

    This case banned interacial marriage

  • Equal Employment Opportunity Act

    This act led the groundwork for Affirmative Action.

  • 9/11

    After 9/11 to government passes the Patriot Act. After the event of 9/11 groups of people including Muslims, Arabs and south Asians in particular were subjected to ethnic profiling.

  • Lawsuits involving Univ. of Michigan

    two lawsuits involving the University of Michigan's affirmative action admissions policy reached the U.S. Supreme Court Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger. The first cased ruled in favor of the Univerisity's admission process and the second did not