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Christopher Columbus lands on Modern day Haiti (December 6th 1492)

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Christopher Columbus lands on Modern day Haiti (December 6th 1492)

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Christopher Columbus and his party meet the natives who are beyond welcoming. The party takes advantage of them and begins victimization of the people, looting, raping, pillaging, hunting slaughtering.

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Frontier Towns are Established (1607-1680)

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Frontier Towns are Established (1607-1680)

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Towns on the East Coast are established as early settlements for colonizers. The slowly grow and expand towards the west (Manifest Destiny)

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The Slave Trade begins with the first African-Americans arriving by boat in 1619. This wealth of the frontier states and Europe see wealth to be had as the triangle trade. Ships from Europe go down to South Africa where they capture black tribes people and enslave them than bring them over to the United States to be sold while buying the domesticated products like cotton and tobacco. With them coming full circle to Europe to sell for an increase in price.

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Jamestown Virginia becomes somewhat a beacon of light as Virginia law didn't firmly establish slavery, this encouraged black people to earn there freedom through repayment of their price to the buyer through work, or manumission, which was being released from your enslavement when your owner saw fit. Blacks who gained freedom saw it in there best interest to assimilate into society with whites and distance themselves from enslaved blacks.

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White indentured servitude drops (Late 17th Century)

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White indentured servitude drops (Late 17th Century)

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As white indenturment ended, all the states at the very least below the Mason-Dixon line became slave states, as they needed more free labor.

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In the 1830's Andrew Jackson is elected president and with that he made into law that any free white man could vote. This strategy was used to gain a solid base of voters as they would re-elect him because he had given them rights. He also played off of peoples prejudices and beliefs like saying he wouldn't give black people the right to vote in office. This was a way of fear mongering so people would re-elect him to act on these promises.

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The compromise of 1850 was a law enacted that declared any slave that ran away could be forcibly returned and the Northern states would return them. This was enacted to hopefully prevent a civil war but it instead strengthened the idea after the North didn't follow through on its promise.

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The amendments gave rights to all people who were born in the United States. They also abolished slavery except for under prison servitude. This was two steps forward two steps back.

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A system put into place in the deep south that leased prisoners to labor companies (Coal, Forestry) to work for them as long as they paid the state what the workers value was monthly. Many died under the harsh conditions as safety was not a concern for those who profited.

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Dmoestic Terrorism and Lynchings (1877-1950)

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Dmoestic Terrorism and Lynchings (1877-1950)

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During the late 19th century and early to mid 20th century, white mobs brought significant violence upon black people and families. Lynching's were common place as nothing was being done to bring justice to those effected, as the general public in the south all saw blacks as alien and sub-human.

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After a young boy (black) reported groped another woman (white) in an elavator. A white mob protested for the lynching of the boy outside a courthouse. He was eventually lynched in front of a crowd of white and black in Tulsa Oklahoma. A much larger white mob began burning down buildings in a prosperous neighborhood of greenwood, which was predominantly black. Many homes and businesses fell to the fires that raged and this was a major set back to these people.

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In the 20's and 30's Harlem New York saw an explosion and in black culture, with many artists with enduring works born into those times. This was a revival of arts, and fashion within the black community that spanned a decade which created stir for more underground movements.

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After Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on a bus, the foundation of the SCLC is established to boycott the Montgomery Bus Line, which began on December 5, 1955 and ended on December 21, 1956, with the desegregation of the bus line. The first preisdent of the group was MLK which is how he began his eventful career.

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The freedom rides had the objective of white and black people riding interstate busses into the deep south to ignore segregation laws. This was to get action from the federal government which found segreagation unconstitutional but was allowing the south to enforce it. Violence and public beatings against these people as they disembarked in different towns and cities across the deep south.

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Black Panthers and Civil Rights Era (1966)

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Black Panthers and Civil Rights Era (1966)

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The black panther party is formed over the beliefs that justice should be dealt out to those who oppr essed the black community. They challenged the police brutality and violence against black people. They wanted change in the justice system, and also brought along many social programs that still exist today, like non-profit hospitals for black communities and the free lunch program.