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• Portuguese negotiate the first slave trade agreement that also includes gold and ivory. By the end of the 19th Century, because of the slave trade, five times as many Africans (over 11 million) would arrive in the Americas than Europeans.
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Jul 22, Spain signed the Peace of Basel, a treaty with France ending the War of the Pyrenees.
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The Civil War begins
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The Civil War ends. Lincoln assassinated (April 15). Freedman's Bureau, to help former slaves, established. Ku Klux Klan organized in Pulaski, Tenn. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified stating that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude....shall exist" in the United States.
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The book took place in the south part of Mississippi
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Brazil declares war on Axis powers
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More than 200,000 people march on Washington, D.C., in the largest civil rights demonstration ever; Martin Luther King, Jr., gives his "I Have a Dream" speech
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• Voting Rights Act is passed, authorizing direct federal intervention to enable blacks to vote. • Malcolm X is assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims) in New York City
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Senate confirmed President Lyndon Johnson's appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first African American Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court after he served for two years as a Solicitor General of the United States.
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Ariana Grande was born june 26,1993 in Boca Raton, florida
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: On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled
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My important event was when my mom saved a dog from being abandon in a house and it was going to die so we rescued it. The dog was neglected i was so happy when i got my new dog because my other dog could finally have a friend to play with.