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Slavery
For hundreds of years, African people were captured, kiddnapped, or sold into slavery by the Europeans. Many were sold the the Americas, where a long history of slavery began. -
Abolition
For almost the entire time that slavery was present in our country, there were people, abolitionists, fighting to free the slaves. For example, President Lincolin fought for the 13th amenment which would free slaves. -
Antebellum
Even before the Civil War and 13th ammendment, there were free African Americans. Unfortuantly they were still not treated as equal citizens. -
Civil War
The Civil War was largly fought over the use of slavery, and led to the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery. -
Reconstruction
After the Civil War, the constitution was ammended three times to provide African Americans with equal rights such as citizenship, voting, and political power. -
Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of social activism and political reform in the United sates that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. One main goal of the Progressive movement was purification of government, as Progressives tried to eliminate corruption by exposing and undercutting
political machines and bosses. Many (but not all) Progressives supported prohibition in order to destroy the political power of local bosses based in saloons. -
World War I
The First World War, originally called the Great War, raged from 1914 to 1918. Mostly fought in western Europe in muddy, bloody trenches, WWI saw the introduction of the machine gun and poison gas into battle. World War I saw an estimated 10 million military deaths. -
Between the Wars
This period of history was marked by turmoil, as Europe struggled to recover from the devastation of the First World War. Later a period of considerable prosperity (The Roaring Twenties) followed, but this changed dramatically with the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. -
World War II
World War II (WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World
was a global war that was underway by 1939 and ended in 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world’s nations — including all of the great powers — eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100million people serving in military units. -
Civil Rights
The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolent forms of resistance. In some situations it was accompanied, or followed, by civil unrest and armed rebellion. The process was long and tenuous in many countries, and many of these movements did not fully achieve their goals although, the efforts of these -
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