https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc Made by Mary, Louise, Thea and Maria. en-us 2018-12-12 21:40:52 UTC 2018-12-13 06:49:37 UTC hello@padlet.com mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314066101 Slavery comes to North America.]]> 2018-12-12 21:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314066101 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314066270 Rise of the cotton industry.]]> 2018-12-12 21:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314066270 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314066449 Lincoln gets elected as president and signalises the secession of seven Southern states and the formation of the Confederate States of America.]]> 2018-12-12 21:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314066449 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314066524 The Civil War began and four more Southern states joined the Confederacy while four border slave states in the upper south remained part of the union.]]> 2018-12-12 21:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314066524 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314066677 Congress annulled the fugitive slave laws, prohibited slavery in the U.S. territories, and authorized Lincoln to employ freed slaves in the army.]]> 2018-12-12 21:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314066677 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067002 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and called on the Union army to liberate all slaves in states still in rebellion as “an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity.”]]> 2018-12-12 21:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067002 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067218 Two-thirds of the Republican Senate passed the amendment.]]> 2018-12-12 21:50:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067218 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067318 The House of Representatives pass the amendment with a two-thirds democratic majority.]]> 2018-12-12 21:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067318 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067476 Alabama becomes the 27th state to ratify the 13th Amendment.]]> 2018-12-12 21:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067476 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067639 The 13th Amendment (amendment to the U.S. Constitution which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime) was officially adopted into the Constitution – 246 years after the first shipload of captive Africans were brought to Virginia and bought as slaves.]]> 2018-12-12 21:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067639 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067791 NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) was founded. The mission of NAACP is to ensure political, educational, social and economic equality of right of African-American people.]]> 2018-12-12 21:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067791 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067919 The African American civil rights movement is established.]]> 2018-12-12 21:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314067919 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314068194 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger in a bus in Alabama. Ms. Parks becomes a symbol on the African-Americans fight towards civil rights. The whole situation led up to a 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott.]]> 2018-12-12 21:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314068194 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314068301 The Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American, was enrolled in Little Rock Central High School which were an all-white high school in the U.S. Their entry was later on blocked, but a month later president Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the girls into the school.]]> 2018-12-12 21:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314068301 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314068586 Martin Luther King Jr. held one of the most popular speeches in history because of the quotation “I have a dream”.]]> 2018-12-12 21:56:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314068586 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314068707 Malcolm X, a black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is assasinated.]]> 2018-12-12 21:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314068707 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314068842 The militant party “Black Panthers”, a self-defense group which fought against the local police, were founded in Oakland. ]]> 2018-12-12 21:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314068842 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314068952 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated outside his motel room.]]> 2018-12-12 21:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314068952 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314069090 First African-American astronaut, Guion S. Bluford Jr., gets sent into outer space.]]> 2018-12-12 21:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314069090 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314069176 Oprah Winfrey becomes the first African-American female billionaire.]]> 2018-12-12 21:59:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314069176 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314069313 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American president and the country’s 44th president.]]> 2018-12-12 21:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314069313 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314069436 The movement “Black Lives Matter” is established.]]> 2018-12-12 22:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314069436 mariajjm https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314069539 Michael Brown, an unarmed 18 year old was shot and killed in Ferguson. The grand jury made the decision not to indict the police officer who shot Mr. Brown, and this choice triggered tons of protest in the city of Ferguson and other cities around the U.S.]]> 2018-12-12 22:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mariajjm/ybjhr3ij0jmc/wish/314069539