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Dec 19, 1440
Traingular Slave Trade
For two hundred years, 1440-1640, Portugal had a monopoly on the export of slaves from Africa. Later, Americans eventually take part in this trade, kidnapping Africans and selling them in America. -
Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus lands in America
Columbus mkes his voyage across the Alantic Ocean and lands in America, Thinking that is is India, or Asia. -
Indentured Servitude
Indentured servitude was a way for people to move across the Atlantic into the new world. All they had to do to get a fare share of land and some money was work seven years for an employer. The main people who did this were poor British immigrants. -
Slave Code
Slave codes were passed. Slave codes were laws in each state that defined the slaves' standings and masters' rights. These codes gave slave owners absolute power over slaves. Slave codes placed harsh restrictions on the freedom of African slaves; these laws generally stated that they were regarded as, and could be treated like, property. -
Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the US
Lincoln's election changed everything. He planned to abolish slaver, which the South did not like because their economy was based on slavery. -
Civil War Begins
The picture is the Battle of Antietam -
13th Amendment
The thirteenth amendment was first passed and it was put in the contstitution making the abolition of slavery a law
