https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9 Made with a dash of Ja'Vion en-us 2022-02-04 19:50:41 UTC 2022-02-04 22:25:14 UTC hello@padlet.com javionavery https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030102486 Columbus arrives (1492) and other Europeans coming. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples.]]> 2022-02-04 20:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030102486 javionavery https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030110282 1754 started the French and Indian War. This war allowed for English expansion and colonial unity (creation of American identity). Benjamin Franklin One of the foremost of the Founding Fathers, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of its signers, he represented the United States in France during the American Revolution, and he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention]]> 2022-02-04 20:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030110282 javionavery https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030112693 In August 1619, the Jamestown colonists bought 20 to 30 enslaved Africans from English pirates. The pirates had stolen them from a Portuguese slave ship. That ship had taken them from Angola. Those taken men and women were the beginning of American slavery.]]> 2022-02-04 20:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030112693 javionavery https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030120449 British sentries manning the Boston Customs House fired into a gathering of people late in the afternoon of March 5, 1770, killing three men and injuring eight others, two of whom died. The tiny squad of troops lost control when one of their number was struck, surrounded by jeering Bostonians hurling hard-packed snowballs. Despite specific orders to the contrary, the soldiers fired.]]> 2022-02-04 20:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030120449 javionavery https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030123856 Crispus Attucks was an iconic symbol of African-American patriotism and military valor during the nineteenth century. "We see him selecting the better part," noted famed educator Booker T. Washington in an 1898 address, "and Crispus Attucks, a Negro, was the first to spill his blood on State Street, Boston, that the white American could enjoy liberty forever, despite his race remained in servitude." By participating in the demonstration, Attucks risked his personal liberty as well as his life, given his possible position as an escaped slave.]]> 2022-02-04 20:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030123856 javionavery https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030132637 Farmers who fought in the Revolutionary War were paid insufficiently to cover their requirements, and they faced financial difficulties. Daniel Shays, a former soldier, led a mob of 600 people to the courthouse in Springfield, Massachusetts, and attacked it. The Governor's militia, which totaled 1,200 men, was outmanned by Shays' men, but they fought back, wounded twenty farmers and murdering four others.]]> 2022-02-04 20:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030132637 javionavery https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030136219 Violence started two days after the election... Tensions between African Americans and whites exploded when a crowd of 2,000 people crossed town and set fire to a Black-owned newspaper office. When African Americans began to arm themselves, whites began to hunt them down and shoot them. The white mob comprised priests, lawyers, bankers, and merchants, all of whom believed they were exercising their civic rights.]]> 2022-02-04 20:46:51 UTC https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030136219 javionavery https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030139074 "Angry at the glacial pace of legal change, African American college students conducted sit-ins, freedom rides, and protest marches to oppose segregation in the South early in the decade." Their efforts resulted to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in public accommodations and employment, as well as the 24th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which guarantee voting rights. Other organizations were encouraged by [these events] to fight for equal rights."]]> 2022-02-04 20:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030139074 javionavery https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030140772 "[The events] started with the shooting and killing of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black male, by police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014." Brown, a college student with no criminal history, was unarmed. He was suspected of stealing a convenience store just moments before the shooting by local cops... The shooting sparked [huge protests] in the St. Louis suburb almost immediately, with protestors taking to the streets to cry out against what many regarded as yet another instance of police brutality against young black males,.... When police used [riot gear] such as armored vehicles, tear gas, rubber bullets, and sound cannons to respond to protestors, even those who were acting peacefully, the situation deteriorated and garnered national attention.]]> 2022-02-04 20:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030140772 javionavery https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030218990 Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was murdered. She worked as a paramedic in an emergency room. On March 13 in Louisville, Kentucky, she was shot many times by police officers who entered her home with a no-knock warrant. Kenneth Walker, Taylor's boyfriend, was present. Officer Hankison, who killed Taylor, has yet to be apprehended. His position was terminated. Officer Hankison should be arrested, according to the people of America who are striving for justice.]]> 2022-02-04 22:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030218990 javionavery https://padlet.com/javionavery/at5987zxhxp4x6y9/wish/2030222759 A violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, January 6. The effects of this event are as followed:

• A woman was shot and killed inside the Capitol.
• More than a dozen people were arrested.
• Washington's mayor also instituted an evening curfew in an attempt to contain the violence.
• The counting of the votes were upheld due to the Rebellion
• Twitter for the first time locked Trump's account. It demanded that he remove tweets excusing violence. It also threatened "permanent suspension."

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