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AMERICA'S IMMIGRATION HISTORY

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  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus arrived in America

  • 1st successful colony was established in Virginia

  • Pilgrim Fathers arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts aboard the Mayflower ship

    British puritans escaped to America from religious persecutions in England.

  • Georgia, the 13th colony, was founded

  • The 13 American colonies rebelled against G.B.

    Revolutionary War

  • Declaration of Independence

    George Washington became the 1st American President

  • Harriet Tubman was born

    She was an African-American slave who escaped and helped a lot of other slave escape, too.

  • Beginning of American Civil War

    It was a war between the Northern and the Southern states of the USA, and the main cause was SLAVERY because the South "needed" slaves to work in the fields, whereas the North wanted to abolish slavery.

  • The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln

    "All slaves shall be free".

  • Murder of Abraham Lincoln + abolition of slavery

  • All eligible male citizens had the right to vote

    Blacks were discouraged and there was violence against them.

  • Jim Crow Laws - segregation

    The Supreme Court stated that black people had to be "separate but equal". Black and white had to live in separate public places (schools, buses, restaurants, public bathrooms).
    Segregation = separation

  • First integrated school + Rosa Parks + Montgomery bus boycott

    For the first time in the USA some black students could go to a school for white people.
    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus. She was arrested for this. As a reaction black people in Montgomery decided to boycott the bus company.

  • March on Washington + Martin Luther King jr.'s "I have a dream" speech

    200,000 black and white people marched on Washington in support of civil rights. M.L. King gave one of the most important and memorable speeches of all time.

  • Civil Right Act

    The Civil Right act was a law that granted civil rights also for black people.
    M.L. King wins the Peace Nobel Prize.

  • Voting Right Act

    FInally black people could vote and be elected.
    100 years after the abolition of slavery, black people got real freedom and equality.

  • Martin Luther King was murdered