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Period: Jan 1, 1528 to
European Explorers bring slaves to the America
By the time Europeans started to colonize America, they brought Afrian slaves to America, so that they could work, and settle there. (http://civilliberty.about.com/od/raceequalopportunity/ig/History-of-Black-Civil-Rights/The-Atlantic-Slave-Trade.htm) -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act in 1793 was guaranteed the right of a slaveholder to recover an escaped slave, they provided for the return between states of escaped black slaves in the United States. (http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/SlaveActs.html) -
Cotton gin is invented in U.S.
The cotton gin was invented in the United States by a man named Eli Whitney. This machine was used to easily seperate cotton fibers from their seeds. It was very important becaue of the effect it had in the Americas, it made them work 50% more. They had to work more though, because more cotton seeds were planted. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin) -
Slavery ends in Great Britain
In 1772, Lord Mansfield's judgement helped launch the movement to abolish slavery. First only slaves under the ages of 16 were freed, but in 1833 all the slaves and apprentices were freed in Great Britain, because a lot of people wanted to stop it and with everyones help they stopped slavery in Great Britain. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833) -
The Amistad mutiny and trial
The Amistad Mutiny, had slave rebellion on the Amistad ship near the coast of Cuba. The mutineers were captured and brought to the united states, by these Captives who were earlier kidnapped in Africa and illegaly sold into slavery. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._The_Amistad) -
Slavery ends in France
Slavery was finally abolished in all French territories and possessions by a decree of the Second Republic in 1848, because Victor Schoelcher’s initiative. (http://www.ambafrance-uk.org/Slavery-Slavery-was-abolished-in.html) -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 was guaranteed the right of a slaveholder to recover an escaped slave, they provided for the return between states of escaped black slaves in the United States. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1850) -
The Compromise
The Compromise is a five bill package passed down in U.S.A. It's a four-year situation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North. It was drafted by Whig Senator and Henry Clay. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1850) -
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The Civil War is fought in the United States of America
The Civil War was between The U.S and several Southern Slave States. After the bloody years of fighting, slavery was abolished in the United States. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War) -
Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in U.S
The Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in U.S declared that all persons held as slaves shall be forever free to be a symbol of equality and social justice. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation) -
Slavery ends in the United States
In 1860, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln stated that slavery should not be expanded in any other territories. In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared free all slaves in the United States, because it was one of the biggest issues in American histroy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_and_slavery) -
U.S 13th amendment to the Constitution
The United States Constitution of Thirteenth Amendment outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution) -
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Jim Crow Law
Jim Crow represented anti-black racism in the United States. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were postitond to the status of second class citizens. They separated blacks and whites in schools, busses, bathrooms, work etc. (http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm) -
Brown vs. Board of education
The United States Supreme Court declared that black & white people go to seperate public schools in United States, because people thought black people were lower class than white people. It doesn't matter what skin color they had, they are all equal, but people didn't think so. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education) -
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African-American Civil Rights Movement
The African-American Civil Rights Movement refers to the social movements in the United States made to outlaw the racial discrimination against black Americans and making voting rights to them. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)) -
The murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till was an African- African boy who was murdered in Mississippi. He was 14 years old after reportedly flirting with a white woman. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till) -
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Freedom Riders Movement
Freedom Riders Movement is a series of political protests against separation of different racial groups by blacks and whites who rode buses together through the south of U.S.A. (http://racerelations.about.com/od/trailblazers/a/The-Freedom-Riders-Movement.htm) -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement was assasenaited because of his speaches about black people having more rights. James Earl Ray, a fugitive was arrested for the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After Ray entered a plea of guilty and had to stay 99 years in the Tennessee state penitentiary. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.) -
The last country in the world to ban slavery
Mauritania, located in western Africa is the last country in the world to ban slavery. Slavery was illegal since 1981. Slavery finally ended, slavery was bad for people and was also unfair. (http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2012/03/world/mauritania.slaverys.last.stronghold/index.html)
