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Period: Jan 1, 1528 to
European Explorers bring slaved to the Americas
Europeans started bringing native africans from Africa and used them as slaves, making them live in terrible conditions. This finally ends after about 300 years. -
Cotton gin is invented in U.S.
Eli whitney, who graduated Yale, created the cotten gin which automatically seperated the cotton seed from the cotton fiber. This made slavery on black people more drastic beacuse since the speed of seperating the cotton grew, the speed of drowing them also needed growth, and as a result, more slaves were needed to work more faster than before. -
Slavery ends in Great Britain
The terribly long period of time of slavery finally ends in Great Britain. -
Amistad mutiny and trial
A portuguese ship brought a lrage amount of africans on board to sell them to Cuba. 53 Africans were purchased for a Spanish plantation and put on the ship Amistad. Furiously, the Americans killed all the crew and was sent back to their home land after trial. -
Compromise of 1850
California was an unorganized territory which the U.S. took over, after the war against Mexico. After getting the land, the South and North protested against each other to decide whether the lands should be a slave territory or a free territory. So, henry Clay of Kentucky planned out a compromise, which said that California is a free state and the slave trade would be abolished in Washington D.C, to please the North, and to Please the South, it told them that the Congress will not decide rules a -
Fugitive slave act
This was a law to track down the run away slaves. This came along with the Compromise of 1850. The Congress pass a law that they would help slave holders get back their runaway slaves, and so people paid slave hunters to capture back certain slaves, and there were more stricter rules again the abolitionists who helped the runaway salves. -
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The Civil War in the United Stated of America
The war was caused because of the south secceding from the combinded united states. After almost 4 yeas of brutal battle, the South surrendered and rejoined the United States. -
Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.
Presedant Lincon relsead this law to stop the Confederacy to stop fighting before he frees all the slaves in the rebellious state. -
Slavery ends in the United States
After over 300 years of slavery, it ended with the ratification of the 13th amendment to the Constitution. -
U.S. ratifies 13th amendment to the Constitution
The 13th amendment was added to the constitution to formally abolish slavery in the United States, -
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Jim Crow Laws
This was the state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. Under these laws, blacks were second-class citizens and treated poorly. -
Slavery Ends in Brazil
The terrible sight of slavery in banned from brazil as well. -
Brown v.s. Board of education - U.S. supreme court case
The Court was deciding wether or not separating Black and white children into separate schools was illegal. It was decided that children should get the same education and be allowed in one school despite their race. This was a movement against social injustice, and a victory for civil rights. -
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Freedom Riders Movement
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to test the United States Supreme Court decisions. -
Martin Luther King Assassinated
The civil leader Martin Luther was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, He was shot in his hotel room. this gave a result of leaving the movement of blck civil rights a stop for a period of time. -
Lat country to ban slavery
Maruitania finally abolishes slavery.
