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10,000 BCE
Latest and earliest immigration?
The latest immigration could have taken place about 12 000 years ago.
The earliest immigration is unknown. -
Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus discovered The New World (America) 12.october 1492. -
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Early Immigration
After the New World was discovered by Europeans, people from all over Europe sailed across the Atlantic to settle in America. -
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Triangular trade
The triangular trade was the trade between America (sugar, tobacco and cotton to Europe), Europa (Textiles, rum and manufactured goods to Africa) and Africa (Slaves to America).
The triangular trade lasted from the 16th to early 19th centuries. -
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American Civil War
Lasted 4 years 3 weeks and 6 days
The war was between the north states and the south states in America.
About 620 000 - 750 000 soldiers died.
When the North won the civil war, about 4 million slaves were freed (most of them by Lincon`s Emancipation Proclamation.). The Reconstruction Era (1865-1877) overlapped and followed the war with the process of restoring national unity, strengthening the national goverment and granting civil right to freed slaves in America. -
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The Reconstruction era
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When Slavery was abolished
Slavery was abolished after the American Civil War. -
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Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws enforcing and legalized racial segregation in the southern united states. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark (New legal principle) United states Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing seperate public scholls for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
Argued: December 9 1952
Reargued: December 8 1953
Decided: May 1954 -
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Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa Parks ignites 381-day bus boycott organized by Martin Luther King Jr. -
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Little Rock Central High School desegregated
After Little Rock school board votes to intergrate schools, National Guard troops prevented black children from attending school. 1000 federal paratroopers are needed to escort black students and preserve peace. Arkansas Gov. Faubos responds by closing schools for 1958-1959 school year. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961.
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March on Washington
More than 200 000 blacks and whites gather before Lincoln Memorial to hear speeches (including King`s "I have a Dream") and protest racial injustice.
