Final Project- Nola Vigna by Nola Vigna https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1 Made with charisma en-us 2021-11-01 20:22:37 UTC 2025-11-20 23:45:11 UTC hello@padlet.com Colonial Virginia 1607~1776 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863219366 The colonial period in Virginia began in 1607 when English settlers found American land, and ended in 1776 with the establishment of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Although a thriving Native American society had existed for thousands of years before the English settler colonized it, war with the European settlers and the introduction of new diseases left the Natives of the land helpless. ]]> 2021-11-03 01:24:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863219366 Free Blacks in America 1865 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863239202 In the United states, before the the abolition of slavery in America, " Free Blacks" described the legal status of African Americans who were not enslaved. ]]> 2021-11-03 01:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863239202 American Colonization Society 1816 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863249914 The American Colonization Society (ACS), originally known as the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America. It was founded in 1816 by Robert Finley, and the purpose was to encourage and support the migration / exploitation of enslaved African Americans to the continent of Africa.]]> 2021-11-03 01:37:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863249914 Harriet Tubman 1820~1913 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863257765 Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and political activist. She was born into slavery and escaped. She then made 13 missions to rescue approximately enslaved people, and give them a chance of freedom.]]> 2021-11-03 01:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863257765 Jacksonian Democracy 1825~1850's nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863279085 The Jacksonian democracy was founded in 1825, and expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21, as well as restructured a number of federal institutions.]]> 2021-11-03 01:49:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863279085 Harlem Renaissance 1918~1930 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863288496 The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, during the 1920s and 1930s.]]> 2021-11-03 01:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863288496 Lynching in America 1877~1950 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863299659 After slavery was formally abolished in America, lynching became a tool for racial control, to reestablish white supremacy as well as suppress Black civil rights. More than 4,000 Black people were lynched across America between 1877 and 1950]]> 2021-11-03 01:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863299659 Oregon Exclusionary Law 1844~ nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863309691
June 18, 1844
The Provisional Government passes Oregon’s first black exclusion law. It states that blacks people who tried to settle in Oregon would be publicly whipped, and receive thirty-nine lashes, repeated every six months – until they left Oregon.

]]> 2021-11-03 02:02:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863309691 Booker T. Washington 1856~1915 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863317330 Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator and author, as well as an advisor to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite]]> 2021-11-03 02:05:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863317330 WEB Dubois 1868~1963 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863320469 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian and a civil rights activist.]]> 2021-11-03 02:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863320469 Convict Leasing System 1867~1945 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863325429 After the Civil War, and slavery was abolished, it still persisted in the form of convict leasing, a which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations. While states profited, prisoners earned no pay and faced inhumane, dangerous, and often deadly work conditions.]]> 2021-11-03 02:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863325429 Plessy v.s Ferguson 1892~1896 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863331842 Plessy v. Ferguson, was a huge decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal"]]> 2021-11-03 02:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863331842 Marcus Garvey (UNIA) 1916 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863337607 Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr. Was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the "Universal Negro Improvement Association" and African Communities League]]> 2021-11-03 02:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863337607 Great Migration 1916~1970 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863343830 The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970]]> 2021-11-03 02:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863343830 Tulsa Race Riot 1921 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863347624 The Tulsa race massacre took place in 1921, when mobs of white residents attacked Black residents and destroyed homes and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma]]> 2021-11-03 02:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1863347624 Southern University Shooting 1972 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865277840 Southern University, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was one of the largest historically Black college in the nation. In 1970, over 10,000 Black students attended the university. ]]> 2021-11-03 16:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865277840 Black Codes 1865-1866 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865283246 The Black code restricted and led to severe limitations on the rights of freedmen, while also ensuring that former slaves would continue to be exploited for cheap labor in the state. The primary issues addressed in the codes were civil rights, apprenticeships, vagrancy, and criminal law.]]> 2021-11-03 16:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865283246 Kwanzaa 1960's nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865287506 Karenga was a major figure in the Black Power Movement of the 1960s, and his goal in creating Kwanzaa was to give black people an alternative to the highly commercialized Christmas holiday and provide an opportunity to instill pride, create a sense of identity, purpose, and direction for people of African ancestry.]]> 2021-11-03 16:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865287506 George Floyd 2020 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865315183 George Floyd died on Memorial Day, May 25, 2020, on a Minneapolis, Minnesota street. He was suffocated to death by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. He held his knee on Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes, killing him. His death went viral, sparking anger, outrage, and indignation on a global scale.]]> 2021-11-03 16:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865315183 Antebellum South 1783-1861 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865329861 "The Antebellum South was a period in the history of the Southern United States from the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 until the start of the American Civil War in 1861. The Antebellum South was characterized by the use of slavery and the culture slavery fostered."]]> 2021-11-03 17:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865329861 Compromise of 1850 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865337324 The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.]]> 2021-11-03 17:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865337324 Fugitive Slave Act 1850 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865341581 The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers.]]> 2021-11-03 17:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865341581 Civil War 1865 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865350686 The Civil war in the United States was fought between the Union states and the Confederate states. The main cause of the war was the status of slavery, especially the expansion of slavery into territories acquired as a result of the Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican–American War.]]> 2021-11-03 17:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865350686 Red Summer 1919 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865358490 The 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.]]> 2021-11-03 17:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865358490 Civil Rights Era 1950's-60's nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865363467
The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.]]> 2021-11-03 17:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865363467 Brown v.s Board of Education 1954 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865368786 The Board of Education Topeka, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.]]> 2021-11-03 17:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865368786 " I Have A Dream" 1966 nvigna8980 https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865373114 "Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968."]]> 2021-11-03 17:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nvigna8980/7fkm68b9010z71z1/wish/1865373114