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Period: Jan 1, 1528 to
European Explorers bring slaves to the Americas
History of the Atlantic Slave Trade in America
For development of the New World, European explorers brought back African slaves. During these times whenever Europeans saw dark-skinned people they were meant to be slaves/laborers. -
Cotton Gin
Cotton Gin
Cotton gin is a machine made by an American inventor Eli Whitney. This invention was made to seperate fibers from their seeds. This was an easy and quick way so then that cotton was made into clothes and other cotton things. The population increased because more people had to work with the cotton. -
Slavery Ends in Britain
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833' >Slavery Abolition Act In 1833, Britian signed a treaty that was a slavery abolition act. Officially, slavery ended on August 1st, 1834 and slaved were freed and were allowed to have a life without labor. -
The Amistad
Rebellion at sea, and capture
There was a ship called the Amistad that was heading for Cuba. There were African slaves that rebelled but they spared some of the crews lives to help them bring the ship to Africa. -
Slavery Ends in France
French Slavery
French slavery ended in 1848, in Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and Réunion. The slavery was ended the government who also compinsated the owners of the 248,560 slaves that they lost. The slavery ended but in about 1850 slaves were brought in illegally. -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850
A man named Henry Clay thought of some ways to help the crisis between the American free and slave states. California was asking to be part of the Union and that was ruining the balance. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
This was an act saying that if any slaves escaped they were to be returned to their masters. Dogs were the animals that tracked down run away slaves. This law was called "Bloodhound Law". -
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Civil War
American Civil War
In 1861 the Civil War began trying to abolish slavery. There were 4 years of killing and fighting, until the Confederacy was conquered and slavery was ended. The Confederacy were a few states (on the south of North America) who approved and were for slavery. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation
This is a document that states that anyone hostage or a slave has to be freed. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln. Many black men were freed and were now able to fight for the states and many hearts were touched by this proclamation. This document was made during the Civil War and black men fought with the white to end slavery. -
Slavery Ends in America
History of Slavery in America
The Civil War ends and Lincoln is assasinated. Many slaves are freed and slavery is ended in the United States. Slaves were freed because free and slave states were debating over it. -
The 13th Amendment is Ratified
The 13th Amendment is ratified
This was a document written stating that slavery and involuntary servitude are unacceptable in the US. This document changed the view of slavery by the Civil War in America. -
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Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws
These laws were laws against interaction between nonwhite and white people. Many things were forbidden like marriage, business and other insane reasons. People at that time had many reasons for discrimination because white people had many things against nonwhites. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
A girl named Linda was not accepted at an elementary school really close to her home so she had to go to a nonwhite school. Her parents sewed the school. The school and Linda had their own arguments. Linda said that was harmful to african-american kids where as the Board of Education said otherwise. -
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African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)
African-American Civil Rights Movement
There were African-Americans who were social skopespeople who tried to get rid of discrimination because they thought discrimination was wrong. Some of these people were Martin Luther King Jr. (Atlanta) and Rosa Sparks (Tuskegee). -
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Freedom Rides
Freedom Rides
Freedim Rides Movement was an event when a group of people who tried to get right for nonwhite people. They rode on buses and tried to unsegregate nonwhite people and help them get rights to sit on buses. -
The Murder of Emmett Till
The Murder of Emmett Till
A fourteen year old boy was with his friends and told them that he has a (white) girlfriend. They teased him and told him to talk to a (white) girl. He went in got candy and said "Bye Baby". Then he was murdered by the womans husband and hunsband brother-in-law. -
Assassination of Matin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was a nonviolent protestor for Civil Rights. He was a man who had a dream that one day the world would be nonsegregated but many people were against that.On the night he was killed he told an important speech about how he is not afraid of dying. That night he went back to his motel and was shot on the balcony. -
Mauritania abolishes slavery
Mauritania abolishes slavery
Mauritania had a really big problem with slavery. The people who were most affected by it were childrem and women. In 2011, a man went to jail for having slaves. About 10-20% of the population lived in slavery
