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European Explorers bring slaves to the Americas
Over the 16th to the 19th centuary a mass majority of slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas. These people or slaves were used for working all day and with no pay -
Cotton gin is invented in U.S.—be sure to tell by whom
The first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793, and patented in 1794. It used a combination of a wire screen and small wire hooks to pull the cotton through, while brushes continuously removed the loose cotton lint to prevent jams. This also made so there was more slavery. Which wasn't that good. -
Slavery ends in Great Britain
Slavery ends due to an act of parlement of the British Empire and is vanished from Great Britain -
The Amistad mutiny and trial
In 1840, a federal trial court found that the initial transport of the Africans across the Atlantic had been illegal, because the international slave trade had been abolished, and the captives were thus not legally slaves but free. Given that they were illegally confined, the Africans were entitled to take whatever legal measures necessary to secure their freedom, including the use of force. After the US Supreme Court affirmed this finding on March 9, 1841, sup -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which diffused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). -
Fugitive Slave Act
The law declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves. -
Slavery ends in Russia
The 1861 Emancipation Manifesto claims to have released more than 22 million slaves. Each and every one of them recieving liberty from the Manifesto. -
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Civil War Starts In America
A civil war starts beteen the South and North. The North believes that slavery is wrong and they want to stop it. This starts a huge war and many deaths of good men are taken -
U.S. ratifies 13thamendment to the Constitution
In this the senate made a law were you could not be slaved unless it was because of doing something wrong or breaking the law. -
End of Slavery in America
In 1865 congress decided that it wasn't right anymore and banned slavery for good. -
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Jim Crow Laws
Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. -
Brown vs. Board of education(U.S. Supreme Court case)
During this time the court focused on what students and children should believe. They made a law were there was a school for black's and a school for white's. This caused a major promblem. -
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Civil Rights Movement for African Americans in the U.S.
This whole thing was aimed on out lawing slavery and racial discrimination in the US. It also made it so black's and their kind could vote and have the same right as whites. THis was very important at this time. -
The murder of Emmett Till
This boy was murdered at the age of 14 for flirting with a white woman. This was a period in time When african Americanpeople were viewed as "Less than Whites" =undeserving of even talking to a white women. -
Freedom Riders movement
African Americans people were not allowed to sit with white people on the bus, when Rosa Parks sat where she wanted - she was arrested. She started what come to be known as the "Freedom Riders Movement". -
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
Martin Luther king was a African American clergyman who many poeple disagreeded with and he recieved many death threats for his speakings and act's. He was important because he talked about the Civil rights Movement and people didn't respect so they ended his life for it.
