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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress declared that they are free natiion. Foundation of the USA IE freedomland foundation -
Bill of Rights
Is the name for the collective of the first ten rights.
1.Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
2.Right to keep and bear arms
3.No forced quartering of soldiers.
4.Freedom from unreasonable searches
5.Right to due process
6.Right to a speedy and public trial.
7.Right of trial by jury
8.No unjust and over the top punishment
9.Other rights of the people.
10.Powers reserved to the states. -
Cotton Gin
Revolutionary piece of technology that make cotton farming much much more profitable which resulted in more demand for slavery. -
Fugitive slave act
Federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves that are still in the US boarders -
Marbury-Madison
Court case that may declare an act of Congress void if it is inconsistent with the Constitution -
United States Bans Slave Trade
Congress passes an act to “prohibit" the importation of slaves -
Missouri Compromise
This regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory -
Indian Removal Act
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River -
Nat Turner Rebellion
The Nat Turner Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County in which Nat Turner gathered weapons and fought their owners. -
Cherokee March
15,000 Cherrokee indians were forced to walk from their homelands resulting in may of their deaths be it from illness, starvation or exaustion -
Kansas-nebraska act
Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders -
Ded Scott vs Sanford 1856-57
Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. -
John Brown slave rebellion
Brown's attemptted to start a liberation movement among enslaved African Americans in Harpers Ferry, Virginia Some say it to be the tip of the civil war iceburg. -
Abraham Lincoln elected
Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th president -
U.S civil war
First shots fired in the US civil war -
Emancipation proclamation
3 million enslaved persons in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free". Was hard to reinforce this proclamation due to the whole.... civil war. -
Lincoln's second inauguration
Elected president for the second time -
Slavery "Ended"
13th amendment abloshed the idea of slavery -
15th Amendment
Blacks gained the right to vote -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equa -
Hattie Wyatt
Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate -
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
The minimum wage us estabished setting a groud rule of payment. -
Nasw founded
to create and maintain standards for the profession, and to advance sound social policies and ensure equality -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat, initiating the bus reblion. -
MLKJ “I have a dream”
MLKJ gives his "I have a dream" speech. Furter fanning the fires of change -
March on Washington
was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans -
JFK assassinated
Assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Bloody sunday
1965- Bloody sunday State troopers attack peaceful demonstrators led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., as they try to cross bridge in Selma, Ala. -
Voting Rights Act,
President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discriminatory voting practices -
Executive order 11246
established requirements for non-discriminatory practices in hiring and employment on the part of U.S. government contractors. -
Black Panthers founded
The Black Panther Party or BPP was a revolutionary black nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. Know for its methods of violence to get the rights they strived for. -
Loving v. Virginia
Land mark court case based around the stigma of multiracial marriage -
MLKJ is assassinated
fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee -
Kent State Shooting
Four students are shot to death by National Guardsmen during an antiwar protest at Kent State University
