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Period: 1234 to
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first British settlements in America
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since 1640: slavery
since 1640: slavery is an essential part of economy in the south -
Boston Tea Party
protest against the British tea tax -
Period: to
American War of Indipendance
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Declaration of Indipendance
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G.Washington: President
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G. Washington
president -
J. Adams
president -
capital: Washington
U.S. capital is moved from Philadelphia to Washington -
T. Jefferson
president -
Jefferson passes a law forbidding Americans to participate in the slave trade
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J. Monroe
president -
Missouri Compromise
Maine: free state, Missouri: slave state -
"Indian Removal Act" (Native Americanswere forced into reservations)
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The Emancipator
The New York Anti-Slavery Society begins a weekly newspaper called The Emancipator -
Mexican-American War
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Southern states leave the union
because Lincoln wants to abolish slavery -
Period: to
American Civil War
North vs South -
Emancipation Proclamation
frees all slaves -
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln ordered the freedom of slaves inside the Confederacy. An estimated 200,000 slaves are freed as a result of this proclamation. -
Ku Kluxx Klan foundation
racist organisation -
13th Amendment
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” -
Right to vote
for all citicens -
African-American student at Harvard
W.E.B. Du Bois becomes the first African-American student at Harvard to receive a Ph.D. -
foundation: NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -
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World War I
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Period: to
World War II
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Rosa Parks: arrested and imprisoned
refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus -
“I have a dream”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom -
J. F. Kennedy
president -
Civil Rights Act
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first African-American woman in U.S. Senate
Carol Moseley Braun becomes the first African-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate -
B. Obama
first African-American President -
D. Trump
president