U.S History

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  • First people
    10,000 BCE

    First people

    First Migration to North America 10,000 Years ago, over the bering strait.
  • Colonies
    1492

    Colonies

    Christopher Columbus, in 1492, was the first to create colonies in the Americas.
  • First legal slave

    First legal slave

    The first legal slave trade was in 1654
    Slavery in the U.S. was part of the Triangular trade
    Triangle = England→ Africa →U.S.
    250,000 slaves were sold between 1700 - 1800
    Abraham Lincon, president, worked to free slaves
  • Slaves

    Slaves

    250,000 slaves were sold between 1700 - 1800
  • Declartion of independence

    Declartion of independence

    In 1776 The colonies signed the Declaration of Independence
  • American civil war

    American civil war

    The American Civil war ( 1861 - 1865) broke out and slavery was one of the issues they fought for. This was a war between the North (red) and the south (blue). The North won, and slavery was abolished
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    In 1955, Rosa Parks protested the segregation in Montgomery, Alabama by refusing to give up her seat to a white man this sparked the civil rights Movement
  • First black president

    First black president

    From 2009 - 1017 the U.S. had their first black president, Barack Obama