Unit 1 Final Project: Living in the U.S. by Zion Goode-Jowers https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb Timeline from Jacksonian Democracy- Civil Rights Era en-us 2021-11-02 21:17:08 UTC 2026-01-30 00:12:19 UTC hello@padlet.com 1444 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862857163 Origins of chattel slavery began between Portugal and “Angola” ]]> 2021-11-02 21:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862857163 1621 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862861893 20 or so slaves arrived in Jamestown. Slavery wasn´t and institution yet and the blacks were indentured next to irish and other groups of immigrants who needed to pay debts.]]> 2021-11-02 21:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862861893 1640 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862872138 John Punch ran away to Maryland accompanied by two white indentured servants. All three were caught and returned to Virginia. On July 9, the Virginia Governor´s Council sentenced both the white men to have their terms of indenture extended by another four years each. However, they sentenced Punch to serve who he escaped from for life.]]> 2021-11-02 21:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862872138 1789 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862873395 Odaulah Equiano publishes his slave narrative]]> 2021-11-02 21:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862873395 Andrew Jackson US President 1829-1837 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862877364 Jacksonian Democracy: was a 19th-century political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to white men over the age of 21, and restructured a lot of federal institutions in favor of white males.]]> 2021-11-02 21:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862877364 1783 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862883011 Antebellum begins]]> 2021-11-02 21:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862883011 1845 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862884865 Frederick Douglass´s slave narrative is published
Douglass was a former slave who:
  1. Literate
  2. Escaped slavery from MD
  3. Advocated for equal rights

]]> 2021-11-02 21:44:48 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862884865 1850 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862887359 Compromise of 1850
1. Slavery abolished from Washington DC

2. California would be admitted as a non slave state.

3. Congress would have no say over the domestic slave trade.

Fugitive Slave Act implemented.


]]> 2021-11-02 21:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862887359 1793 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862889785 Fugitive Slave Act: 1793 law stated that slave holders could send agents anywhere inside borders to apprehend “slaves”
This act was enacted by congress.]]> 2021-11-02 21:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1862889785 1844 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870841002 Sojourner Truth joins Feminist Action Group

Sojourner Truth was:

  1. Born into slavery in 1797
  2. Spoke dutch in her early life
  3. Escaped around the age of 30
  4. Used the US justice system to free her son.

Sojourner Truth became the first black woman to win a court case against a white man.



]]> 2021-11-05 21:12:20 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870841002 1859 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870844226 Oregon gains statehood]]> 2021-11-05 21:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870844226 1861 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870844705 Civil War begins]]> 2021-11-05 21:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870844705 1863 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870846289 Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln Declared slaves to be free on January 1, 1863.]]> 2021-11-05 21:17:43 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870846289 1865 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870847719 13th Amendment, formerly abolishing slavery in the United States is ratified January 31, 1865


]]> 2021-11-05 21:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870847719 1868 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870849572 14th amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the Civil War]]> 2021-11-05 21:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870849572 1865 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870850331 Civil War ends ]]> 2021-11-05 21:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870850331 1866 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870880336 Black Codes: Primary purpose was to restrict freedom, labor, and movement of black people (former slaves)
list of rules:
No Preaching
No Carrying Firearms (unless)
No Drinking
No Congregating in large groups
No Vagrancy
No unemployment
No Vagrancy
Limited Housing
Miscegenation banned




]]> 2021-11-05 21:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870880336 1867 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870882694 Southern Reconstruction begins]]> 2021-11-05 22:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870882694 1870 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870883726 The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870.]]> 2021-11-05 22:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870883726 1866 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870884279 The Freedmen’s Bureau was established 
They provided: food, clothes, money, legal services, labor contracts, schools, and medical care for whites and blacks]]> 2021-11-05 22:02:20 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870884279 1867 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870887781 start of convict leasing system
Convict leasing system: After the Civil War, slavery persisted in the form of convict leasing, a system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations. While states profited, prisoners earned little to no pay and faced inhumane, dangerous, and often deadly work conditions.

Designed as a compliment black code offenses, this was the first use of the US penal system´s ability to operate like an industrial prison complex System.


]]> 2021-11-05 22:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870887781 1868 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870890002 W.E.B Dubois 1868-1963
Born after the civil war in Massachusetts

First black person ever to receive a Phd from Harvard University.

Anti-racist activist, and author, poet, scholar, historian, Pan-Africanist

Associate professor at University of Pennsylvania and Atlanta University.

World traveler, emigrated to Ghana later in life.

Creator of the Talented Tenth and the United Negro Improvement Association. 





]]> 2021-11-05 22:09:12 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870890002 Booker T. Washington 1856-1915 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870891990 believed:

  1. While blacks spent their time during reconstruction reaching for political power, they forgot the importance of basic work required to succeed.
  2. Blacks should accept an inferior position in the United States.  Submissive, at the bottom of the social structure and continue to prove their worth.
  3. helped create the Tuskegee institute

]]> 2021-11-05 22:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870891990 1914 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870893289 Birth of Nation (1914) by DW Griffith
A movie that depicts what would happen if the south won.
It helped revive the KKK because it showed them as the protagonists and demonized black men.]]> 2021-11-05 22:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870893289 1865 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870894524 Lincoln assassinated]]> 2021-11-05 22:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870894524 1916 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870896618 Great Migration begins
The great migration was a period when African Americans left the south and went to the North and Midwest.]]> 2021-11-05 22:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870896618 1890s zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870897996 Poll tax-Starting in the early 1890s poll taxes were excised as a way to keep black from voting. 

At the same time a ¨grandfather clause¨ was implemented for whites who could not pay because of impoverishment 


]]> 2021-11-05 22:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870897996 1919 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870900281 Red Summer: is the period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots took place in more than three dozen cities across the United States]]> 2021-11-05 22:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870900281 1921 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870906393 Tulsa Race Massacre: A massacre that happened in Greenwood, OK in the black Wall street Neighborhood because a black man was accused of assaulting a black woman.]]> 2021-11-05 22:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870906393 1920 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870907438 19th Amendment: ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.]]> 2021-11-05 22:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870907438 1920 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870908859 Harlem Renaissance begins:
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics ]]> 2021-11-05 22:33:06 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870908859 1933-1939 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870912554 The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. Major federal programs and agencies included the Civilian Conservation Corps , the Civil Works Administration, the Farm Security Administration, the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Social Security Administration . They provided support for farmers, the unemployed, youth and the elderly.]]> 2021-11-05 22:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870912554 1955 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870918198 Emmett Till was brutally murdered.
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American who was killed in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.]]> 2021-11-05 22:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870918198 1961 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870919181 Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals]]> 2021-11-05 22:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870919181 1965 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870920076 Malcolm X was assassinated.
Malcolm X was a a civil rights activist and member of the nation of islam.]]> 2021-11-05 22:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870920076 1968 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870920681 MLK assassinated.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist]]> 2021-11-05 22:49:16 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870920681 1963 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870921925 JFK assassinated.
He was the 35th president of the U.S.]]> 2021-11-05 22:51:08 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870921925 1966 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870922787 The black panther party was created in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.]]> 2021-11-05 22:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870922787 1970 zgoodejowers8116 https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870923929 On August 7, 1970, heavily armed 17-year-old African-American high-school student Jonathan Jackson, whose brother was George Jackson, one of the three Soledad Brothers, gained control of a courtroom in Marin County, California. He armed the black defendants and took Judge Harold Haley, the prosecutor, and three female jurors as hostages. As Jackson transported the hostages and two black  | I didn't know she was a member of the communist party | defendants away from the courtroom, one of the defendants, James McClain, shot at the police. The police returned fire. The judge and the three black men were killed in the melee. Angela Davis purchased the guns used in the attack so she became a fugitive because the police believe she aided them in committing the crime.]]> 2021-11-05 22:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/zgoodejowers8116/74hwxrdasj3obcb/wish/1870923929