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question		réponse
First slaves arrived in the British colonies in... commencer à apprendre		1619
Where were the slaves used? commencer à apprendre		Tobacco and cotton plantations as manual labor, mainly in South
Thomas Jefferson said... commencer à apprendre		"All men are created equal"
What was the Three Fifth Compromise about? commencer à apprendre		1 slave would be counted as 60% of a white man
What was Eli Whitney's Cotton gin about? commencer à apprendre		taking the seeds out the cotton.
When was Eli Whitney's Cotton gin? commencer à apprendre		1793
One slave with gin... commencer à apprendre		could process 23 kg of cotton a day.
Where was the cotton exported? commencer à apprendre		Great Britain
What started the Industrial Revolution? commencer à apprendre		Cotton export
When were the new slaves made illegal? commencer à apprendre		1808
What was the anti-slavery movement called? commencer à apprendre		Abolitionists
What was "Bleeding Kansas"? commencer à apprendre		vote to decide if state would be enslaved or free
When did the "Bleeding Kansas" take place? commencer à apprendre		1854
How many people did political violence kill? commencer à apprendre		50 to 200
When did the political violence kill people? commencer à apprendre		1854-1859
Who was John Brown? commencer à apprendre		abolitionist who supported violence against slave owners.
Who was Abraham Lincoln before he became the president? commencer à apprendre		Lawyer and politician
When did Abraham Lincoln join the Republican Party? commencer à apprendre		1856
When did "House Divided" speech happen? commencer à apprendre		1858
When was Abraham Lincoln a candidate for president? commencer à apprendre		1860
Was Abraham Lincoln against slavery? commencer à apprendre		Yes, but he couldn't do anything about it
Lincoln elected... commencer à apprendre		11 Southern states seceded and formed new country.
How many people died due to Civil War? commencer à apprendre		635 thousands
How long was the Civil War? commencer à apprendre		1861-1865
The date of freeing the slaves commencer à apprendre		4 April 1865
What was the reconstruction? commencer à apprendre		Plan to rebuild the country
When was Lincoln killed? commencer à apprendre		On 15 April 1865
Who killed Lincoln? commencer à apprendre		John Wilkes Booth, Southern patriot.
What were the Black Codes? commencer à apprendre		– new laws to keep blacks as almost slaves.
Black Code made black people have no right to... commencer à apprendre		own land, go to school or vote
Ku Klux Klan... commencer à apprendre		used terror and fear to control blacks
Plessy vs. Ferguson date commencer à apprendre		1896
1940 commencer à apprendre		13m blacks in US, 10m in the South.
Blacks in the US Army... commencer à apprendre		were only used to cook and do physical work, etc.
At 1 December 1941... commencer à apprendre		Roosevelt ordered to train the blacks to fight.
Tuskegee Airmen commencer à apprendre		some of first black pilots trained to fly.
President Harry S Trueman ordered desegregation of US military. commencer à apprendre		1948
1954 – commencer à apprendre		US Schools desegregated
1 December 1955 commencer à apprendre		Arrest of Rosa Parks led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
November 1956 commencer à apprendre		Supreme Court ordered city buses desegregated
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.? commencer à apprendre		Protestant minister who became national leader of black Americans
Sit-ins commencer à apprendre		form of economic attack.
What was Luther King's main philosophy? commencer à apprendre		To not fight violence with violence.
28 August 1963 commencer à apprendre		250,000 black and white protestors met in Washington to tell the government that something had to be done about segregation.
King's speech was called... commencer à apprendre		"I have a dream"
15 September 1963, Birmingham, Alabama commencer à apprendre		– 4 members of the Klan planted 15 sticks of dynamite under the stairs of black church on Sunday morning.
Early 2010’s commencer à apprendre		several young black teenagers were killed by white police officers in different American cities.

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