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Jamestown was settled
First successful settlement in America -
Plymouth Settled
The Pilgrims made the second successful settlement in America -
Bacons Rebellion
Slave masters needed to look for someone other than white people to be slaves -
Stono Rebellion
Slaves were no longer allowed to be educated after this -
First Great Awakening
A religious revival that stirred the colonists into not wanting England to be in control anymore -
French and Indian War ends
Proves that the colonists can fight -
Boston Massacre
American Colonists are killed by English soldiers making England look worse to the colonists -
Independence Day
The colonies declared independence from England -
Battle of Saratoga
Proved America could beat England in a straight up fight, which causes France to join the war on the side of America -
Articles of Confederation Ratified
First set of laws for America created -
Shay's Rebellion
The rebellion that proved the Articles of Confederation did not work -
NW Ordinance
Decision on how territories could become states -
Constitution Ratified
The second set of laws were given for America -
Whiskey Rebellion
Proved that the Constitution did work -
Alien & Sedition Acts
Made it Hard for immigrants to gain citizenship -
Frederick Douglass Publishes Autobiography
He is the first black man to write a book and publish it. He is an example that black people are real humans too. -
Gettysburg Adress
President Abraham Lincol gives speech saying that the soldiers who died should not have died in vain but should have at least died to make our country equal for all. -
Reconstruction Ammendments
These Ammendments were made to give black people equal rights to freedom, voting, and citizenship. -
Plessy V Ferguson
A Supreme Court case that was supposed to prove the Stupidity of trying to classify who was black and who was not. -
Booker T Washington released up from slavery
Book detailing the life of a black man who was a slave and was now free and was trying to create a life for himself in the South -
WEB Dubois forms NAACP
This group was the first group created by African Americans so that they could get equality. -
Birth of a NAtion
Movie that makes fun of black people and glorifies the KKK. -
Brown Vs Board of Education
Supreme Court case that rules that it is unconstitutional to segregate schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott Ends
African Americans in Montgomery Alabama are able to get the busses desegregated which gives them hope that they can get everything desegregated. -
Bull Connor Uses Firehoses
He unleashes dogs and Firehoses on the Peaceful protestors and it makes him look bad. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Makes all segregation Illegal and officially gives blacks equal rights as everyone else -
Malcolm X Killed
A civil rights activist is killed by another group of civil rights activists after he leaves their group. -
MLK Assassination
The leader and voice of the civil rights movement is killed.
