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Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619
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African americans,if free could now fight in the army.
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a Vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada
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In September of 1850 , Harriet was made an official "conductor" of the UGRR. This meant that she knew all the routes to free territory and she had to take an oath of silence so the secret of the Underground Railroad would be kept secret
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and gave an inside look of the cruelties of slavery .
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Lincoln freed slaves in the Southern states in rebellion
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Freed the slaves , and sought out black rights .
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The war between the north and the south .
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Carver is the first black student to attend Iowa State College of Agriculture.
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African-American civil rights organization in the United States.
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13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
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On December 5, he is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, making him the official spokesman for the boycott.
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Forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
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It made it a federal crime to deny anyone the right to vote and it was actually enforced.
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made the cotton gin
