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History:

Slavery was abolished

-> Thirteenth Amendment

Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fithteenth

-> Gave more legal rights and voting rights

Jim Crow Laws:

Blacks were separated from Whites

-> had to go to different schools and ride other busses

Society:

had poorest education standard and fewer wealth

-> couldn't afford the poll tax and reading test

-> resulted in that they couldn‘t vote

KKK:

threatened blacks who could vote

Lynched blacks especially in the south

Hard to stop because of influential connections they had

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What happened to African American people:

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What happened to African American people:

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African people were enslaved

People were taken prisoner against their will

They attacked each other and took hostages which they sold to European agents

They were brought to America by ship

Many people died

They were sold in America

They worked as households servants and field hands

Owners viewing slaves as a labour source and trading commodity

Owners supported the buildings of family’s

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little to eat & drink

Little space

Many diseases

Poor treatment

Slaves had no humanity and the natural rights were taken away

They were beaten

Slaves remained slaves

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• millions of slaves were imported from Africa to America in the 17th and 19th century ——> bad life conditions because of slavery

• many slaves fled to join the British army with a promise of freedom —> hope that it will be better than slavery

• thousands of slaves fled to the North to fight against former masters in the civil war –> they hope of a better life

• 1865: civil war ends and slavery got abolished

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What happend to African-American people in the time of the civil rights movement?

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What happend to African-American people in the time of the civil rights movement?

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before 1950s

fought in the war (they are treated the same)

minority group

treated different

not the same rights as white people

whites are priviledged

during the 1950s and 1960s

-> protest for their rights

want to be treated the same as white people because in the war they are

Dr Martin Luther King: peaceful protest -> sit-ins and boycotts -> opposed the use of violence

Rosa Parks

refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man

-> Montgomery Bus Boycott

affected a protest against the system of segereation

-> black people refused to use buses

bus companies lost a lot of money

August 1963

200.000 people met in Washington

speach of Martin Luther King “I have a dream…“

about the need of equality, against that black people are treated different

Malcom X was the figurehead of the Black Power movement

believes that peaceful resistance would not lead to equality

pro violence

shot dead in 1964

-> not the end of radical groups (Black Panthers)

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Southern Colonies —> huge plantations for the European market

millions of slaves were imported from Africa (17th and 18th centuries)

revolutionary war (1775-1783)

Nothern states abolished slavery

19th century—> anti slavery movement gained

—> the South was not going to abolish slavery willingly

Abraham Lincoln—> elected president in 1860

Civil War in April 1861–> because of slavery

after the victory of the Union in 1865

—> Constitution finally abolished slavery

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in the 1960s

got some rights

no segregation in public places

can vote

banned discrimination in housing

during the 1970s and 80s

got good jobs -> also in the goverment

but there were still problems

they didn‘t got immediat help from the goverment when their houses were distroyed in New Orleans in 2005