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

SOCIAL ISSUES 2

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