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The first people came to the continent from Asia over the Bering Strait. -
The Vikings visited briefly in the north east. -
Christoffer Colunus expedition reched the americas in 1492. -
However, it was not until 1607 that the first permament settlment was etablished in Jamestown, Virginia. -
In 1776 the colonies signed the Declaration of Indepence -
It took eight years of conflict before Britain gave the new nation complete indepence -
The war was against Northern and Southern
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In 1880 the africans gets the same rights -
Second world war is almost 100 years ago. -
In 1954, the supreme Court decided that the idea of seperate but equal. -
Martin Luther King is the leader in the Civil Rights Movment. -
The voting rights act gave African Americans the same rights as whites, but also benefitted other minority groups. -
The first African- American president, Barack Obama.
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The Black Lives Matter movment was founded in 2013 and since then people all over the US, as protests highlight the discrimination still experienced by non- whites in The US.