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pbs.org<a > The Europeans brough the slaves because they needed people working in plantations and mines.
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The Cotton Gin is a machine invented by Eli Whitney that increased the productivity of seperating fibers from the cotton, that were than used to make clothes. It was important, because the slaves would have less work to do. -
abolition.e2bn.org Slavery Abolition Act passed in the House of Commons followed by the House of Lords on August 1st.
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Wikipedia.org A group of Africans rebelled on a boat named the Amistad when being taken to the United States to become slaves.
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Wikipedia.org A trial, that decided the fate of the Africans that rebelled on the Amistad when taken captive. The supreme court decided that the Africans innocent and demanded them to be shipped back to Africa.
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Wikipedia.org A package of five bills passed in the United States Congress in September 1850, which diffused a four-year confrontation between the South and the North. Indicating slavery legal below a parallel and no slavery above.
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Wikipedia.org A law that declared that all runaway slaves, upon capture, to be returned to their masters. Even if they escaped to the North.
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Wikipedia.org Emancipation reform of 1861, signed by Alexander II.
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Bloodiest conflict in American history, between the confederates and the union over economics and slavery.
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Wikipedia.org Abraham Lincoln signed it to free the slaves in the south because it was the morally right thing to do and to help end the civil war.
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Wikipedia.org The passage of the 13th Amendment. The official end of slavery in the United States.
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Loc.gov It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864 and by the House on January 31, 1865. It a couple months for all the states to ratify the ammendment.
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Wikipedia.orgJim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public transportation, and public places.
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Wikipedia.org Brown vs Board of Education was a court case in which the supreme court judged an arguement between the board of education and a father of a negro girl about blacks and whites going to the same school.
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Wikipedia.org Social movements in the United States, aimed at outlawing rascism.
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Wikipedia.org A boy who was brutally murdered after flirting with a white girl.
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Wikipedia.org They were African American Civil Rights activists who rode in the front of buses and used white waiting rooms to fight for equality.
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Wikipedia.org At 6:01 PM, he was struck by a .30 Remington 760 at the age of 39 by James Earl Ray, because of his speeches about how black people are equal to whites.
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thepetitionsite.com Mauritania abolishes slavery.
