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European Explorers bring slaves to the Americas
Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American by ships from aferica, to the colony of Jamestown. At the time eoropean explores started to colinze the americas, african slevery had allready became a fact of life, making suger, tabacco and cotten. Even thow the transportion of slaves was illigel in 1950, people still cept them till 1865 when it was finally illagle to own slaves. -
Cotton gin is invented in U.S.
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.The fibers are processed into clothing or other cotton goods, and any undamaged seeds may be used to grow more cotton. The first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 -
Slavery ends in Great Britain
In 1807 the British government declared the buying and selling of slaves illegal, but it was not against the law to own slaves until 1834. In August 1834 Parliament passed a agreement of freeing all children under six in the West Indies. All other slaves were called apprentices and had to work for nothing for six years. Many ex-slaves stayed on the plantations having no work else to do. -
Amistad Trial
Fifty-three Africans were purchased by two Spanish planters anda put on a ship to sail to the plantations. The Africans seized the ship, killed the captain and the cook, and told the planter to sail to aferica instead they sailed to Long Island, NY. The planters were freed and the Africans were imprisoned.The court ruled that the case fell and that the claims to the Africans as property were not legitimate because they were illegally held as slaves. 35 of them were returned to their homeland. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a set of five bills that were intended to stave off sectional strife. Its goal was to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests in balance. Here is a summary of the five bills:California was entered as a free state.New Mexico and Utah were each allowed to decide if the states would be free or slave.Texas gave up lands that it claimed in present day New Mexico
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The Civil War in the United States of America
The war was started when prisident lincoln was made president and wanted slavery to end, leading to dividing the united states of america to split in two. One side that wanted slavery the Confederate states and the side that wanted to stop slavery the Union. Severe shortages of food and supplies in the South led the fall of the confederates, starving soldiers began to desert the confederate forcesleaving the union to win over the confederates. -
Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.
President Abraham Lincoln created the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation was septed into its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared within the rebellious states "that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free." After the proclamation was sighned 200,000 blacks, joined the Union Army giving them an advantage to winning the war. -
Slavery ends in dutch colenies
on the 1 of jul. 1863, 30 years after the english. In paramaribo, the largest city of Suriname, 21 canons were shote in the air, terning slaves into free people. The dutch rule paid each slave owner 300 gulden for each slave that was freed. -
Slavery ends in the United States
The Civil War ends and president Lincoln is assassinated. The Thirteenth Amendment of the american consition abolishes slavery throughout the United States. On June 19 slavery in the United States effectively ended when 250,000 slaves were freed. -
U.S. ratifies 13th amendment to the Constitution
the 13th amendment said. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally destroying slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and passed to the states on December 6, 1865. -
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Jim Crow Laws
the jim crows law could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbide intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep black and white people separated. -
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Freedom Riders movement
The Freedom Riders were inspired by the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation, led by civil rights leader Bayard Rustin. The first Freedom Ride began on May 4, 1961, 13 riders seven black, six white people in their 40s and 50s.Because of pressure applied by Kennedy, the state's governors had worked out a deal to give the buses military escorts.The efforts of the Freedom Riders were finally rewarded when the Interstate Commerce Commission decided on Sept.1961 to stop segregation in interstate trasport. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The fugitive act declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters.The Fugitive Slave Law brought the issue of anti-slavery citizens in the North as it made them and their institutions responsible for enforcing slavery. Any person aiding a runaway slave by giving food or shelter was sent for six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine. -
Brown vs. Board of education—U.S. supreme court case
State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. it begain when sixteen-year-old Barbara Rose Johns organized and led a 450-student potest of that discrimination was unlawful. District Court judge in Gebhart ordered that the black students be admitted to the white high schools due to the substantial harm of Racial segregation. -
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Civil Right movement for African Americans in the U.S.
The African-American Civil Rights Movementtalks about the social movements in the United States aimed at destroying racial discrimination against black Americans and restoring voting rights to them. some of the important figuers at that time were W. E. B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr, whon made the civil right movement happen. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago, was visiting his relatives in Mississippi when from his great-uncle's home on the night of August 28 he was kiddnapped from. He was then beaten, shot in the head, and then thrown into Tallahatchie River. His body was found three days later. The murderers killed Till because he whistled at a white woman in a store. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. He had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, he was shot throw the neck throw his shoulder balde. -
Last Country in the World to Ban Slavery
In 1981 Mauritania became the last country to abolish slavery, although it was only criminalised in 2007. It was estimated to be up to 600,000 men, women and children, or 20% of the population of 3,069,000 people are in slavery in Mauritania.
