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First settlement in Jamestown Virginia
When the European came to USA they took land and fought the people who lived there. -
the first legal slave owner was recognized
Plantation owner saw the need for cheap labor,They took manufactured good from England to Africa where they exchanged slaves. The slaves -
the colonies signed the Declaration of independence.
The indepence day was 4 july 1776.
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United States also has a constitution,
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 and completed with the Bill of Rights in 1791. In 1789 George Washington who was one of the founding Fathers, became the first President. -
Bill of Rightts
Bill of Rights in 1791. -
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Between the years 1700 and 1800 ca. 250,000 slaves were taken to America.
The Northern state won the civil war, and slavery was abolished. The slave trade was banned in 1807 but was officially abolished in 1865. -
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It took eight years of conflict,
from 1775 to 1783 before Britain gave the new nation complete independence. -
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but in practice this was not so. Some African Americans were elected into office in the 1880s
for African Americans to vote and often made laws that allowed racial segregation in public school, on public transport, in public areas and in the workplace.
Many people thought these laws were unfair and unconstitutional, but in 1896 the supreme court -
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The US today
Barack Obama was president from 2009 to 2017. It was tempting to think that everyone now had equal rights and opportunities in the US.
