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1492
The Encounter/ El encuentro
Christopher Columbus and his crew land in the Dominican Republic, beginning a period of exploration, trade, and conquest of the native people of the Americas. People from Europe, Africa, and Asia begin to live in the Americas to farm and trade.
Colón y su tripulación aterrizan en la República Dominicana, comenzando un período de exploración, comercio y conquista de los pueblos nativos de las Américas. Personas de Europa, África y Asia comienzan a vivir en las Américas para cultivar y comerciar. -
1530
Los africanos son esclavizados y llevados a las Américas a trabajar
Portuguese colonists bring enslaved Africans to Brazil to work on sugar plantations.
People were brought to America from Africa and forced to work. Los colonos portugueses traen africanos esclavizados a Brasil para trabajar en las plantaciones de azúcar.
La gente fue traída a América desde África y obligada a trabajar. -
Massachusetts makes slavery legal
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Virginia law declares that the children of enslaved people are also enslaved.
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people held as slaves in every colony, including New Jersey
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Marriage between black and white people illegal in some places
Virginia passes a law making marriage between black people and white people illegal. -
Florida's native communities protected people who escaped slavery
1738-1818 Florida, ruled by Spain, was a place that protected people who escaped slavery in their native American seminole communities. -
First Black church founded in America, in South Carolina
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Revolutionary War begins
Revolutionary War begins. The American colonies declare independence from England and the United States of America begins. -
first state to ban slavery
Vermont bans slavery, slavery illegal in Vermont. -
United States allows people who have escaped slavery to be returned
The Constitution of the United States includes a "fugitive slave clause". This means that if a person who was enslaved escapes to a state without slavery, that person can be returned to the people that enslaved them. No place in the United States is safe for an escaped person. -
Where was slavery allowed in the United States?
This is where slavery was allowed when the USA became a country. -
Where was slavery allowed in the United States?
States with more industry became free states. States that relied on large crops, such as tobacco, cotton, and rice, remained slave states. -
Slave Trade outlawed
people could no longer be brought to the United States from other countries to be enslaved. -
Where was slavery allowed in the United States?
The Missouri Compromise of 1821 helped decide what new American territories would allow slavery or not. -
Mexico ends slavery
Mexico abolishes slavery, and many slaves escape to Mexico. -
75,000 people escape on the Underground Railroad
1831-1861 75,000 people escape slavery by on the Underground railroad. They migrate to areas where slavery is not legal, including Canada and Mexico. -
Slavery ends in Canada
Canada, which is part of England, declared all black people free. Many enslaved people in America escaped to Canada. -
Where was slavery allowed in the United States?
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Where was slavery allowed in the United States?
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Where was slavery allowed in the United States?
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Some states leave the United States
In 1860, the Confederate States of America is formed when 11 states secede (leave)from the Union (The United States of America). -
Where was slavery allowed in the United States?
11 states that allowed slavery became their own country. -
Civil War Begins
The Civil War begins, between the Union (USA) and the Confederacy. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln frees all enslaved people in the Confederacy with the Emancipation Proclamation -
Civil War Ends. All slavery ends in America.
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"Black Codes" hurt African Americans
"Black Codes" are passed in the Southern states, which segregate schools, housing, jobs, and public places like parks and libraries. -
African Americans can vote.... but...
African Americans are allowed to vote. But local laws are passed to stop them in many areas. -
Many African Americas leave the South for a better life.
Nearly 40,000 people migrated to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. -
Supreme Court says segregation is legal
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NAACP, an organization to help African Americans, is established.
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Great Migration
1916-1930 First Great Migration, 1.6 million people leave the South. -
Harlem Renaissance
Great music and writing movement in the African American community -
Women earn the right to vote
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Second Great Migration
1940-1970 5 million people leave the South -
Brown v. Board of Education: segregation in schools is illegal
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
led by the Montgomery Improvement Association, including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, African Americans refused to ride segregated buses for over a year. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a group to promote Civil Rights, established by Martin Luther King -
Civil Rights Act; discrimination is illegal.
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Voting Rights Act makes it easier for African Americans to vote.
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Loving v. Virginia marriage between black and white people is legal.
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Martin Luther King is assasinated
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Martin Luther King Day becomes a national holiday
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Barack Obama becomes the first African American president of the United States
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Black Lives Matter movement begins
Black Lives Matter movement begins, reacting to violence against African Americans -
Kamala Harris becomes the first African American vice president of the United States
