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The First Slaves
Arrived in Virginia -
Stono Rebellion
Slave rebellion, largest uprising in British mainland colonies -
Lucy Terry
Became the earliest known enslaved poet. -
Crispus Attucks
Killed in Boston Massacre -
Phillis Wheatley
Her book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral is published, making her the first Aftrican American to do so -
Gabriel Prosser
Organized a slave revolt, rebels were hanged -
Slavery made illegal
US Constitution states that congress may not ban the slave trade until 1808 -
Invention of the Cotton GIn
Eli Whitney's invention increased the demand for slave labor -
Congress bans importation of slaves from Africa
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Missouri Compromise
Bans slavery North of the southern boundary of MIssouri -
Denmark Vesey
enslaved African who planned a revolt to lay siege on Charleston, South Carolina, plot is discovered, rebels are hanged -
Nat Turner
enslaved preacher, leads the most significant slave revolt in American history -
William Lloyd Garrison
begins publishing the Liberator, an abolitionist paper -
Amistad Case*
Slaves being transported on Spanish ship overtake it and sail to Long Island -
Wilmot Proviso
attempts to ban slavery gained from Mexican-American War -
Harriet Tubman
escapes slavery and leads the Underground Railroad -
Federal Fugitive Slave Law
Providing for the return slaves who had escaped -
Compromise of 1850
California is admitted as a free state, Utah and Mexican Territories are left to be decided by popular sovereignty -
Frederick Douglass
launches his abolitionist newspaper -
Sojourner Truth
Speaking for abolitionism at women's conference -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
anti-slavery novel published by Harriet Beecher-Stowe -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Established territories of Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Compromise -
Dredd Scott Case
Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states -
John Brown
captured federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry -
Confederacy founded
deep south succeeds -
Emancipation Proclamation
Slaves within Confederate states are free -
Freedmen's Bureau
Established by congress to protect newly freed slaves -
Civil war ends
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Lincoln is assassinated
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Ku Klux Klan
formed in Tennessee -
Slavery in US is ended
Slaves in Texas receive news of the end of the civil wat two months later -
13th amendment ratified
Prohibits slavery -
Series of reconstruction acts are passed
5 military districts are created -
Black codes passed by southern states
Restricts rights of newly freed slaves -
14th Amendment
Defined citizenship, everyone born is US -
15th amendment
giving blacks the right to vote -
Hiram Revels
First African American senator -
Reconstruction ends in the south
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Booker T Washington founds Tuskegee Institute
Higher learning for African Americans -
Plessy vs Ferguson
Racial segregation is constitutional -
NAACP
founded in New York by W.E.B Dubious -
Harlem Renaissance flourishes
New black cultural identity -
Jackie Robinson breaks MLB color barrier
Signed by the Dodgers -
Harry S Truman issued executive order integrating US forces
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Brown Vs Board of Education
Racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional -
Emmett Till
Murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman -
Rosa Parks
refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "Colored Section" -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students are blocked from entering a school -
Greensboro four
Four black students had a sit in at a segregated lunch counter -
Freedom Riders
Bus trips to the south to test out new laws to prohibit segregation -
Jackie Robinson
First African American inducted into the baseball hall of fame -
The March on Washington for jobs and Freedom/I have a dream speech
attended by about 250,000, Martin Luther King Jr's speech -
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights act
prohibits discrimination -
Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace prize
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State Troopers violently attack peaceful demonstrators in Selma, Alabama
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Black Panthers
Founded by Huey Nelson and Bobby Seale -
Thurgood Marshall
Appointed to Supreme Court, first Black justice -
Shirley Chisolm
First black congress woman -
Martin Luther King Jr assassinated
Memphis Tn -
The first race riots in decades errupt
Los Angeles -
Barack Obama
First African American president , defeating John McCain