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Slaves were first transported to USA (mainly in the South, working in the fields plantations)

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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A collection of eleven southern states left the Union and formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery.

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Abraham Lincoln refused to recognize the southern states as an independent nation and the Civil War occurred in 186.

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Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, this would allow the slaves to be free in the southern states and laid the groundwork for slaves to eventually be also freed across the country. He won the re-election in 1864 against opponents who wanted to sign a peace treaty with the southern states.

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Lincoln was assassinated by a southern sympathizer called John Wilkes Booth.

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The US Civil War between the Union (United States of America ) and the Confederacy (Confederate States of America).

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In the USA lynchings of African Americans, commonly by hanging, became frequent in the South after the Reconstruction era. Most lynchings were conducted by white mobs against black victims, who decided by their own hand that the black community was guilty.

The political message was the promotion of white supremacy and black powerlessness. Lynchings were photographed and published as postcards, which were popular souvenirs in the U.S. ,expanding fear.

Victims were sometimes shot, burned alive, or tortured and mutilated in public events, with any legal conscience.

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The United States defeated the Confederate States and abolished slavery nation-wide.

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Reconstruction - The Constitution tries to give the black community rights to school, citizenship, to vote..

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Reconstruction failed.

Many southern whites had intimidated and used violence to keep blacks from voting and restore white supremacy in the region.

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Incident in which an African-American train passenger, Homer Plessy, refused to sit in a car for blacks. When this was taken to the Supreme Court, it ruled that a law that “implies merely a legal distinction” between whites and blacks was not unconstitutional.

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Supreme Court decides to upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.

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The civil rights movement

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Rosa Parks, in Montgomery, Alabama, lead to Montgomery bus boycott protest, which  lasted 381 days.

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‘Jim Crow’ laws were followed from the 1880s until the 1960s, when the American States enforced segregation. These laws discriminated against black people in the southern states of USA, they forbade any type of relationship between a black and a white person, with a legal punishment if done.