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slavery
By the mid-19th century, America’s westward expansion and the abolition movement provoked a great debate over slavery that would tear the nation apart in the bloody Civil War. -
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Slavery
in the 1400s the europeans began to sail around the continent of Africa -
1492
colonization
In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered The Americans -
1500
colonization
Slavery was just the beginning. The Europeans began to build trading posts in Africa in the 1500s and by the early 1800s, -
slavery
Slavery in America started in 1619, when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. -
independence
Officially, the Continental Congress declared its freedom from Britain on July 2, 1776, when it approved a resolution and delegates from New York were permitted to make it a unanimous vote. -
colonialism
in 1776 and the Haitian Revolution in 1781. However, the Eastern Hemisphere continued to tempt European colonial powers. -
Suez Canal
After conquering Egypt in 1798, the French military commander Napoleon Bonaparte sent a team of surveyors to investigate the feasibility of cutting the Isthmus of Suez and building a canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. -
Colonialism
refers to European colonial expansion between the 1870s and the start of World War I. -
Independence
Congress made Independence Day an official unpaid holiday for federal employees in 1870. .. -
Imperialism Begins
In the Age of New Imperialism that began in the 1870s, European states established vast empires mainly in Africa, but also in Asia and the Middle East. -
Suez Canal
In 1875, the British bought the Suez Canal in Egypt. -
The Scramble for Africa
In 1875, the two most important European holdings in Africa were French controlled Algeria and Britain's Cape Colony (South Africa) -
the scramble of Africa
African territory by European powers during the New Imperialism period, between 1881 and World War I in 1914. -
The Scramble for Africa
between 1881 and World War I in 1914. -
British and Egypt
In 1882, the British took total control of Egypt. -
Rwanda
In 1894 the explorer, Gustav Adolf von Götzen became the first European to explore Rwanda. -
Imperialism Begins
By 1914, Ethiopia and Liberia were the only countries in Africa not under European control. -
South Africa
In 1948, white South Africans known as Afrikaners made apartheid law. Apartheid is a policy of legal separation based on race. -
British and Egypt
Anglo-Egyptian agreement of 1954 after the Suez Crisis. The first period of British rule (1882–1914) is often called the "veiled protectorate". -
sudan
on January 1 1956 Sudan gained Independence from Egypt and the UK -
British and Egypt
until 1956, when the last British forces withdrew in accordance with the Anglo-Egyptian agreement -
independence
Things were made more difficult because the Eruopeans had draw country lines without regard to where different ethnic groups were located. -
sudan
After independence, the people in the south rebelled against northern rule leading to two civil wars from 1956 to 1972 and from 1983 to 2005. Millions of people died. In 2011, Sudan recognized South Sudan’s independence. -
Rwanda
The country continued to experience violence until 1994 when Hutu began to engage in genocide against the Tutsi people. Between 800,000 to 1 million Tutsi people were murdered. -
Rwanda
The government of Rwanda banned non biodegradable plastic bags in the country in 2008. -
arab spring
In 2010, people in Tunisia began to agitate for a more democratic government. This movement became known as the Arab Spring. -
arab spring
the Islamic world in the early 2010s. -
South Africa
In 2011 the population of South Africa was around 52 million -
south Africa
In 2011 the population of South Africa was around 52 million.