civi us

1879-1880

kansas exodus = up to 60k black people migrated to kansas seeking freedom

1896

national association of colored women

1895

atlanta compromise speech

1883

civil rights cases

1896

plessy v ferguson

 1890s

the south mainly had a dramatic increase in violence against AA

average of 187

lynching each year (roughly 1 every 3 days)

1892

anti-lynching campaign launched condeming the lynching of her friends

1920s.

racist segregation was imposed in federal departments in washington dc.

1915

president wilson had the birth of a nation premier at the white house.

1903

publishment of the souls of black folk by w.b.e du bois

1909

national association

1910-1920

5 mill b ppl left the south for detroit, buffalo, detroit etc

1920s

riots exploded

1921

tulsa oklahoma

in tulsa oklahoma

more than 300 black ppl were killed, 10k were left homeless

during WW2

about 700k bpl hopped on liberty trains from south to north to california

During the war

NAACP’s membership grew from 50k to 500k members,

1942

congress of racial equality held sit ins in northern cities where black ppl would sit in white spaces and demand to be served to protest segregation

1953

brown v board of education

1964

the 2nd civil rights act

1960s

the dem party was behind the CRA and helped the civil right movement

1905

the niagara movement

during WW1

need of workers in  factories to replace the man that went to the war, and need for more weapons

1831 j

abolitionist newspaper,weakly journal the liberator by william lloyd garrison

1830s

thanks to the innovation : 100K northern joined the movement

1833

Slavery abolished in the british empire

1833

creation  of the american anti-slavery society

1840

black abolitionists sought an independent role in the movement

1837

John c Calhoun saw slavery as a stable basis for white supremacy

1841

a group of 135 slaves seized a ship called the creole

as 19c went own

some southern states gov enacted laws to limit or prevent the mistreatment of slaves = strengthen slavery

1846

the wilmot provision

1846-1848

war with mexico = annexation of texas (expansion)

1850

Compromise of california

1854

the kansas nebraska act

1854

creation of the Republican party

1857

dred Scott's decision

1860

Abraham Lincoln Candidate for the presidential election

1850

New fugitive slave act

1787 in the constitution

The fugitive slave clause , slave trade clause and 3/5 compromise

1793

the fugitive slave act

1790

naturalization act

1820

missouri compromise

 1820-60

2m slaves were sold bw the states

1830-60

30k slaves escaped

1831

nat turner’s rebellion

1832

virginia enacted more repressive laws

1787-1808

more than 170K slaves were brought to the us

1808

slave trade clause end = abolition of slave trade

1870

end of naturalization act

beginning of 19th ct

Cotton industry expanded dramatically

before 18ct

slavery was central crop produced by slaves for the slave society

1607-1700

more than 500K british ppl came to NA (13 colonies)

1675

bacon's rebellion

by 1700

slave labor replaced indentured servitude in virginia

1705

Virginia Slave Codes passed (first colony to establish comprehensive limitations of slaves)

18th

anti- slavery sentiment spread among quakers

mid 18

3 slave system = tobacco based and personal in chesapeake , rice in SC and georgia and up north with personal slave

1770 In chesapeake

nearly half family owned at least one slave

Atlantic slave trade

10million transported

1619

first 20 slaves arrived in virginia by ship

1676

armed conflict settlers vs indigenous = massacre

through the 18th ct and 1st half of 19th

black people resisted

1712

1st resistance to slavery was In NY

1831

nat turner's rebellion

1859

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

By the 19th century

slaves identifies as african americans

By 1730

In SC majority of black,2 /3 of the population

By 1770

slave population made up nearly half of the whole population of virginia

Between 1770-1804

every state north of Maryland = steps toward emancipation

1773

benjamin rush a FF said slavery was a national crime

1775

Dunmore Proclamation

In 1776

on the eve of independence, fewer than 10k free black people resisted in the US.(By 1810 their numbers had grown to nearly 200k)

1779

Philpsburg proclamation

1861-1865

Civil war

1861b

battle of fort sumter, first attack by the confederacy. And battle of bull run

1861 union

union confiscating slaves as contrabands

1862

first conscription law by the confederacy

March 1862

Congress prohibited the army from returning fugitive slaves + slavery abolished in washington DC

july 1862

Second confiscation act

1863

enrollment act by the union

1863 b

Battle of Gettysburg, led to the gettysburg address (abraham lincoln) 

Jan 1t of 1863

emancipation proclamation

1865 b

battle of appomattox

1865 c

Congress approved the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the union

1865 al

abraham lincoln assassination

1865-1870

 the freedmen's bureau

1863

AL tried to attract southerners loyal to the union, leading to the creation of AL gov

1865 may

AL replaced by Andrew jonhson

1865-1867

series of presidential reconstruction

1865-1866

SC and Mississippi Black codes

1866

civil right act

June 1866

14th amendment

1867

1st reconstruction act

after 1867

secret societies (like KKK)

1871

30 black people and 1 white judge were murdered by the KKK.

1870-71

3 enforcement acts

1873

economic depression

1873 KKK

Colfax massacres