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Columbus promised King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to travel to china and bring back spices and gold

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When Columbus met the Arawaks he saw tiny pieces of gold in their ears. In hopes that the Arawaks could lead him to the source of the gold, he captured and enslaved as many men and boys above the age of 13. Any Arawak who returned empty handed would have their hand cut off.

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Columbus, not being able to find any gold in the Americas gathered 500 slaves and sent them back to Spain to were they would be sold off.(200 of which would end up dying in captivity.)

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Since the start of Columbus's search for gold, only 500 Arawak's remained on Haiti. the rest had been killed by disease, execution, suicide, or they had been hunted and sold.

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in 1619 the first slaves arrived in Jamestown Virginia. This would be the start of Americas slave based economy. This would also mark the start of chattel slavery. A form of slavery that treated slaves as less than human, and denied them any and all types of rights or freedoms.

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The signing of the deceleration would declare america independent from England and its own country.

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The constitution included several amendments such as
1. the freedom of speech
2. the right to bare arms
3. no quartering soldiers
4. freedom from unreasonable searches
5. the right of due process and freedom from self incrimination
etc....

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In 1803 America bought the Louisiana colony from France for 15 million dollars. the states that were included were Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.

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1804, all northern states  have abolished slavery

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1804, all northern states  have abolished slavery

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Vermont was the first state to abolish slavery in 1777. Other northern stats would follow and by 1804 all northern states had abolishes slavery.

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Jacksonian democracy was put in place by president Andrew Jackson, and gave the right to vote to most white men over the age of 21, ultimately making the planter class less powerful

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In order to have more land for white settlers to grow cotton on the government removed native american tribes from their land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida. The tribes that were forced to move out had to walk all the way across the Mississippi river to reservations that government had made for them. The journey itself was very difficult and even deadly. Tribes included in the removal were the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole.

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The Mexican American war started over white settlers in Texas wanting Texas to be its own independent state and part of Mexico. Mexico was not okay with that and they decided to go to war over it. The war lasted until 1848 resulting in Americas win. Mexico lost a bunch of territory including California, Texas, Arizona, and now whats known as New Mexico.

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Harriet Tubman is a prominent figure in black history who helped slaves escape captivity through the underground railroad and risked her own safety to help slaves navigate their way to the north. Harriet Tubman escorted 300 slaves to freedom in 19 years.

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The fugitive slave act of 1850 required all slaves that had escaped to the north to returned to their owners in the south. it also allowed bounty hunters (slave hunters) to hunt the slaves in the north (and even sometimes free blacks) and take the back to the south.

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This act allowed newly acquired territories California, New Mexico, and Utah to decide if they were slave states or not

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The civil war was fought between the union and the confederacy over slavery in the south. The union was against slavery and the confederates wanted to keep it. Ultimately the union won and slavery was abolished in the south in 1865.

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In 1865 the thirteenth amendment abolished slavery stating "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"

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The KKK's goal was to obstruct and completely destroy the reconstruction government, and to terrorize and kill black people and black family's.

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The reconstruction era was a 12 year period after the civil war. The purpose of the reconstruction era was to introduce new amendments to give black people more rights and transform the south.

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the compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement by southern democrats that removed troops from the south ending the reconstruction era.

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The separate car act established the policy of separate but equal transportation for black and white passengers.

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This act, also known as the geary act, completely prohibited the immigration of Chinese people to the USA.

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In 1986, the supreme court found segregation to be constitutional under the "sperate but equal" doctrine for black and white Americans.

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Convict leasing was a form of labor that companies would pay for by giving prisons money in exchange for prisoner labor.

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In Brown's lawsuit he claimed that black and white schools were not equal, and that violated the equal protection laws of the 14th amendment. The case was brought to the U.S. district court of Kansas, where it was decided that the segregation of public schools had a negative effect on children of color. Despite coming to that conclusion the court still upheld the separate but equal doctrine. Once his case and 4 other cases of racial inequality were brought to the supreme court in 1952, the justices would eventually, in 1955, rule the segregation of public schools unconstitutional.

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In 1971, president Richard Nixon cracked down on drugs criminalizing them, and declared them the number one enemy of the public.

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1984, Reagan signs the comprehensive crime control act

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1984, Reagan signs the comprehensive crime control act

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The signing of the comprehensive crime control act gave heavier penalties and longer sentences to those in possession of drugs.  These policies put in place by Reagan and Nixon were used to disenfranchise black communities all over the country. The CIA would import drugs like weed and crack into black communities in an effort to destroy them. Reagan also confessed to this on tape after his presidency.

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In 2014, the Obama administration would introduce detention centers at the border, were asylum seekers would be processed to check for eligibility to enter the country. Later on in 2017, Donald trumps administration would begin to separate children from their parents at the border destroying families.