USA

By dfgjuki
  • Period: 1234 to

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  • first British settlements in America

  • since 1640: slavery

    since 1640: slavery is an essential part of economy in the south

  • Boston Tea Party

    protest against the British tea tax
  • Period: to

    American War of Indipendance

  • Declaration of Indipendance

  • G.Washington: President

  • G. Washington

    president

  • J. Adams

    president

  • capital: Washington

    U.S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington

  • T. Jefferson

    president

  • Jefferson passes a law forbidding Americans to participate in the slave trade

  • J. Monroe

    president

  • Missouri Compromise

    Maine: free state, Missouri: slave state

  • "Indian Removal Act" (Native Americanswere forced into reservations)

  • The Emancipator

    The New York Anti-Slavery Society begins a weekly newspaper called The Emancipator

  • Mexican-American War

  • Southern states leave the union

    because Lincoln wants to abolish slavery
  • Period: to

    American Civil War

    North vs South

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    frees all slaves

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Lincoln ordered the freedom of slaves inside the Confederacy. An estimated 200,000 slaves are freed as a result of this proclamation.

  • Ku Kluxx Klan foundation

    racist organisation

  • 13th Amendment

    “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

  • Right to vote

    for all citicens

  • African-American student at Harvard

    W.E.B. Du Bois becomes the first African-American student at Harvard to receive a Ph.D.

  • foundation: NAACP

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Period: to

    World War II

  • Rosa Parks: arrested and imprisoned

    refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus

  • “I have a dream”

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

  • J. F. Kennedy

    president

  • Civil Rights Act

  • first African-American woman in U.S. Senate

    Carol Moseley Braun becomes the first African-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate

  • B. Obama

    first African-American President

  • D. Trump

    president