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in 1793, the first automated cotton gin was made by eli whiteny
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in 1833, the Slavery abolition Act was passed and slavery was ended in Britain.
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the compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills that adressed a dispute between territories of North and south.
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the Fugitive Slave act was an act declaring that all slaves that escaped the south must be brought back, offering a large reward to those who did it.
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in 1861, several southern states fromed the confederacy, however, the North rejected the legality of the seccesion and, after a failed peace council, declaired war on them.
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On January 1st, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all slaves
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on April 8th, the senate passed the 13th amendment, declaring that slavery and involentary service was outlawed exept as punishment for crimes.
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the jim crow laws were laws stating that white and black people should be separte but equal. needless to say, this did not work because white people got supirior items
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this was a civil rights movement aimed at outlawing racial discrimination of blacks and their right to vote.
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Emmit Till was murdered in missouri for flirting with a white girl.
he had one eye gouged out and was shot in the ead before being thrown in a river, -
the Freedom Rider were people who rode interstate buses
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on April 4th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at a motel in tenessee
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in 2007, Mauritania outlaws slavery
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In 2007, the country of Mauritania outlawed slavery, however, slavery is still a problem there.
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The La Amistad was a slave ship on which the slaves revolted and took over. the Americans found them and held them trial, and were decided to be innocent and were freed.
