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Period: Jan 1, 1502 to
European Explorers bring slaves to the Americas.
The first African slaves came over to the America to work in sugar colonies in Brazil and the Caribbean. They were brought over from Africa by European slave ships to be sold and to start working for their new masters. The blacks that worked in the United States ofen lived longer because the work load and food was less harsh than the one in the Caribbean. -
Cotton gin is invented in U.S.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in the U.S in 1793 which separated the fiber of the cotton from the seeds. This invention led to increasing numbers of slaves in the south. -
Slavery ends in Great Britain
The British Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. This act gave all slaves in the British Empire their freedom! The British government paid compensation to the slave owners. The amount that the plantation owners received depended on the number of slaves that they had. -
The Amistad mutiny and trial
On July 2, 1839, Joseph Cinqué led 53 fellow African captives being carried on La amistad to rebel against their capturers. The Africans took control of the ship and demanded to be returned home but the captain lied and took them to long island for trial. At the time the transport of slaves from africa was illegal so the captain lied and said that the slaves were from Cuba. The survivors returned to Africa in 1842 because the Supreme Court said that the Africans had been illegally transported. -
Slavery ends in France
In the history of the Atlantic slave trade, the French made four times as many Afrcans slaves, than the Americans did! The French used the slaves far more brutally, and French slavers not only got a head-start on Americans, they continued the slave trade ,legally, until 1830, long after the rest of Europe had given it up! So slavery was finally abolished in all French territories in 1848. -
Compromise of 1850
Cliforia wanted to be a free state meaning no slaves,but the amount of free slave states would disrupt the balnce between free and slave states in the U.S. So senator Henrey Clay decided to make Washington D.C a free slave state to abolish slavery in California, and California could join! -
Fugitive Slave act
These were laws passed by the United States Congress on September 18,1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. -
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Civil war
The civil war was fought in America from 1861 to 1865.The war had started because the south wanted to keep slaves and the north wanted to ban slavery. -
Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Empancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
U.S. ratifies 13th amendment to the Constitution.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864 -
Slavery ends in the United States.
The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery throughout the United States. On June 19 slavery in the United States has ended when 250,000 slaves in Texas finally received the news that the Civil War had ended two months earlier! -
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Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States that seperated the Black people from the whites such as on the public bus,in public schools and public places such as restaurants. -
Brown vs. Board of education (U.S. Supreme Court case)
This was a law established in 1954 by the United States Supreme Court declaring that black and whites could learn and go to school together. -
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Civil Rights Movement for African Americans in the U.S.
These social movements aimed at outlawing discrimination against black americans. -
The murder of Emmett Till
Till was murdered on August 28, 1955 after “flirting” with a white woman , Several nights later Roy, the white woman’s husband transported Till to a barn, beat him and ripped out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and throwing his body in the Tallahatchie river, weighting it with a 32 kg cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. -
Rosa Parks
It was December 1st 1955, when Rosa Parks (a seamstress) decided to order a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. That day the civil rights movment was born. When there was no more space to sit for a white man, the bus driver ordered all colored to stand. All did except for Rosa Parks. She said why do you always push us around and got arrested that day. She is now known as the Mother of Civil Rights. -
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Freedom Riders movement
The Freedom Riders movment was a civil rights movment that rode buses into the segregated south of the United states in 1961. -
"I Have a Dream" speech
"I Have a Dream" was a 17-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States. The speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. He got shot in the right cheek at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.James Earl Ray was the one charged with the crime. -
Mauritiana Bans Slavery
Mauritiana, a medium sized nation located in western Africa, became the last country in the world to ban slavery, in 1981. -
Barack Obama become President
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He became the first African American President in History, to hold the office o April 20, 2009.
