American history

American History Timeline

  • missouri compromise

    missouri compromise
    the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Furthermore, with the exception of Missouri, this law prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line.
  • Escape of Harriet Tubman

    Escape of Harriet Tubman
    Harriet Tubman was a runaway slave from Maryland who became known as the "Moses of her people." Over the course of 10 years, and at great personal risk, she led hundreds of slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad,a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves could stay on their journey north to freedom.
  • Cilvil War

    Cilvil War
    The Cilvil War was a war between the Confederation and the Union. It was fought over slavery weather to have slaves or let them be free. Aberham Lincon and the Union won the war freeing all slaves in America.
  • African American Civil Rights Movement

    African American Civil Rights Movement
    African American Civil Rights Movement is the goal to inforce black able to have better imployment ,better eductation, voting rights, but also boycotting some thing, like the bus .
  • Harlem Renissance

    Harlem Renissance
    The harlem renissance is a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished.
  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson
    Jackie Robinson became the first black player in the major leagues in 1947.He came up with the civil rights for black athlets.
  • Rosa Parks bus boycott

    Rosa Parks bus boycott
    Rosa parks was on a public bus and it begain to be packed .And blacks sat in the back whites in the front .And James Blake askede her toget up and she said no and thern got arrested and put in jail.
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9
    Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus.
  • Martin Luther King assassination

    Martin Luther King assassination
    civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee,
  • I have a Dream speech

    I have a Dream speech
    "I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States. ...