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12,000 BCE
Americans settled in America
Native Americans travelled from East-Asia to America 12 000 years BCE.
These peoples were composed of numerous distinct tribes, bands, and ethnic groups and many of these groups survive intact today as partially sovereign nations. -
Jan 1, 1000
When the Europeans first “discovered” America (Leif Eiriksson)
Leif Eiriksson was an explorer that is best remembered as discovering North America in year 1000.
Him and his crew was de the first Europeans that sat foot on America, more specifically the area that is now named as Newfoundland (Canada).
A result of his expeditions was many settlements, however none of them was long therm. -
Jan 1, 1450
The triangular trade
The triangular trade is a historical term indicating a trade between three regions. The best known triangular trading system is the transatlantic slave trade. This trade operated from the late 16th to early 19th, carrying slaves and manufactured goods between American colonies, West Africa and New England. -
Aug 3, 1492
Cristopher Columbus
Cristopher Columbus was an Italian explorer that is best known as the man who discovered America in 1492 when I tried to find the western sea route from Europe to India.
He was not the first European who crossed the atlantics and went home to Europe, but it was his travels that have a lot of meaning and that lead to European colonization of America. -
Civil War
The Civil War was a war fought between the North and South. The North was called the Union, while the South called themselves the Confederate. The main conflicts during the war was about the slavery, and whether or not the U.S should stand together as one nation or split up. Most people in the north was against slavery. In the south they wanted to retain slavery since they needed it for their plantations. -
Plessy v Ferguson
This 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. It stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a Jim Crow car, breaking a Louisiana law. Rejecting Plessy’s argument that his constitutional rights were violated, the Court ruled that a state law that “implies merely a legal distinction” between whites and blacks did not conflict with the Amendments (13th & 14th). -
Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist, she is mostly famous for the Montgomery bus boycott. She refused to give her seat to a white male on the bus, as a result she was arrested by the police as it was at the time that people was separated by race and skin-color. The outcome of her refuse and arrest triggered the civil rights movement. Today she is considered the first lady of the civil rights movement. -
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist and minister. In the spring of 1963 he organized a demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama. He was later arrested with many of his fellow protesters, even though he was arrested the event drew nationwide attention. In august 1963, the historic marsh on Washington drew more than 200 000 people. It was here he made his famous "i have a dream" speech, emphasizing his belief that someday all men could be brothers. -
Brown vs board of education
Oliver Brown had a daughter who had to walk over a mile to get to her segregated school, although it was a school for white children less than seven blocks away. When Brown tried to put her daughter into the school for white children only, the principal refused. Therefor the case was proceeded to go to the supreme court, it was then decided that -
Civil rights act
The civil rights act of 1964 was a labor law which ended segregation in public places based on religion, color, sex and national origin. This is also banned employment segregation. -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama is a former Senator from Illinois and the 44th President of the United States. Barack Obama served one term in the Illinois Senate and is the first African American President of the United States. Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. -
Alton Sterling
Alton Sterling,a 37-year-old black man, was shot several times at close range while held down on the ground by two white Baton Rouge Police.Department officers in Louisiana.Police were responding to a report that a man in a red shirt was selling CDs, and that he had used a gun to threaten someone outside a convenience store.The shooting was recorded by multiple bystanders.The shooting led to protests in Baton Rouge and a request for a civil rights investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.
