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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. -
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.
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Virginia passes a law making marriage between black people and white people illegal.
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1738-1818 Florida, ruled by Spain, was a place that protected people who escaped slavery in their native American seminole communities.
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Revolutionary War begins. The American colonies declare independence from England and the United States of America begins.
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Vermont bans slavery, slavery illegal in Vermont.
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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.
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This is where slavery was allowed when the USA became a country.
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States with more industry became free states. States that relied on large crops, such as tobacco, cotton, and rice, remained slave states.
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people could no longer be brought to the United States from other countries to be enslaved.
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The Missouri Compromise of 1821 helped decide what new American territories would allow slavery or not.
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Mexico abolishes slavery, and many slaves escape to Mexico.
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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.
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Canada, which is part of England, declared all black people free. Many enslaved people in America escaped to Canada.
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In 1860, the Confederate States of America is formed when 11 states secede (leave)from the Union (The United States of America).
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11 states that allowed slavery became their own country.
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The Civil War begins, between the Union (USA) and the Confederacy.
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President Lincoln frees all enslaved people in the Confederacy with the Emancipation Proclamation
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"Black Codes" are passed in the Southern states, which segregate schools, housing, jobs, and public places like parks and libraries.
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African Americans are allowed to vote. But local laws are passed to stop them in many areas.
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Nearly 40,000 people migrated to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.
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1916-1930 First Great Migration, 1.6 million people leave the South.
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Great music and writing movement in the African American community
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1940-1970 5 million people leave the South
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led by the Montgomery Improvement Association, including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, African Americans refused to ride segregated buses for over a year.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a group to promote Civil Rights, established by Martin Luther King
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Black Lives Matter movement begins, reacting to violence against African Americans
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