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In 1896 the supreme court ruled that ’’separate but equal’’ was constitutional.
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When the European came ro USA they took and forught the people who lives there.
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Plantation owner saw the need for cheap labor, and the first legal slave owner was recognized in 1654.
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They took manufactured good from England to Africa where they exchanged slaves. The slaves were taken to America and tobacco, sugar and cotton were taken back to England. Between the years 1700 and 1800 ca. 250,000 slaves were taken to America.
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It took eight years of conflict,.. before Britain gave the new nation complete independence.
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The indepence days
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United States also has a constitution, its role is to protect the basic human rights. It was written in 1789 by a group of men called the founding Fathers
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George Washington is in the founding Fathers group. He became the first president in 1789.
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The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. It was completed in 1791.
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President Abraham Lincoln managed to ensure the freedom of slaves. Slaves was one on the issues that led to a civil war between the Northern and Southern states (1861-1865). And the end The Northern state won the civil war, and slavery was abolished.
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The slave trade was banned in 1807 but was officially abolished in 1865.
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Freed slaves was going to have the same rights as other free men, but in practice this was not so. Some African Americans were elected into office in the 1880s.
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In 1954 the supreme court decided that ’’separate but equal’’ was no longer constitutional.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was leader of Civil Rights Movement. His speech “I have a dream” in the March on Washington in 1963 is famous.
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The Civil Rights Act,( the black people got the same rights as the white people), was signed in 1964.
