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Period: Jan 1, 1528 to
European Explorers Bring Slaves To The Americas
Europeans brought slaves to america so that the slaves could do all of the manual labour for them. Slaves built villages and cities. Slaves were also tradable so the Europeans sold them to the native Americans. -
Period: Jan 1, 1528 to
European Explorer's Bring Slaves To The America's
After the end of the war of Independance the US constitution acknowledged slavery and stated that every slave was three-fiths of a person. They brought slaves to the Americas in 1528 and started a long lasting trade called the Atlantic Slave Trade. -
Slavery Ends In Russia
Slavery is abolished in russia but serfdom is retained. Peter the Great converted the households of slaves into households of serfs. -
Cotton Gin Invented
A man named Eli Whitney invented The Cotton Gin. It was a simple mechanized device that would efficently remove the seeds from raw cotton fibers. This caused the south to make a switch to large scale production of cotton which heavily reinforced the economies dependancy on slave labour. -
Slavery Ends In Great Britain
The aboliton of slavery in Great Britain was finally confirmed by an act of the parliment. It was estimated that about 20,000 black people were kept as slaves in the 1760's. -
Amistad Mutiny and Trial
The Amistad mutiny was a group of Africans that rebelled on a spanish ship while being illegally transferred to South America.The Supreme Court tried the 53 Africans and freed them because the captors were breaking international laws. The Supreme Court made sure that this case was an exception. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This was passed as a part ogf the compromise of 1850. It declared that all runaway slaves were to be capture and returned to their masters. -
Comprimise of 1850
This was a comprimise passed in the US that stated California would be admited as a free state and slave trade would be abolished in Washington D.C. Also to please the south laws would not be passed regarding slavery in areas captured in the war aginst mexico also congress passed stronger laws to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. -
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Civil War In the US
The souths seceded from the Union and forms the confederacy. Confederacy troops demand Union troops to leave a fort called Fort Sumter. They then open fire and start the US civil war which lasts for 4 years. -
Signing of The Emancipation Proclamation
Thw Emancipation Proclamation was an order issued by Abraham Lincoln, The order stated that all of the enslaved people living in confederate lands will be "forever freed". -
Slavery Ends In The United States
The Thirteenth Amendmant permanatly abolished slavery throughout all of the United States. Even border states such as kentucky which held over 35,000 slaves. -
US Ratifies 13th Amendment to the Constitution
The 13th amendment officially ending slavery is ratified. Nor slavery or involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States. This was made 8 months after the end of the civil war. -
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Jim Crow Laws
These were laws that made balcks seperat from whites. For example blacks could go to same public things like scholls but they couldnt drink from the same water fountain or use the same restrooms as whites. -
Brown vs. Board of Education (Case in Supreme Court)
On May 17,1954 their was a case in the US Supreme Court which implied that the seperation of public schools for black and white children was unconstitutional. They stated that seperate education creates racism and is an example of social injustice. -
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Freedom Rider's Movement
These men were activist's that rode interstate buses into segregated southern United States. They were arrested for trespassing,unlawful assembly and violating laws. -
Martin Luther King, Jr. is Assassinated
Martin Luther King, Jr was an American clergyman and the leader of The African American civil rights movement. He was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968 at the age of 39. THe killer was a man named James Earl Ray and he was arrested for murder. -
Mauritania Abolishes Slavery
The national goverment of Mauritania was the last country and goverment to abolish slavery. Although reports say that slavery still goes on largely in Mauritania the goverment denies any of these claims.
