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The African Slave Trade In a Broad Context
PreColumbian America
The arrival of human beings in America
35,000 BC
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Americans were widely dispersed across the Western Hemisphere
9000 BC
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Agricultural Revolution began
5000 BC
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Post-Columbus Colonization
Colonization was dominated by Spain
1490 - 1590
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Columbus reaches the Americas
1492
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Small pox arrived causing a "biological holocaust"
1518 - 1530
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French concentrated on settlements in the north
1534 - 1730
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Portugal staked out a claim in Brazil
1550
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British Colonization (first permanent settlement in Jamestown, VA)
1607 - 1776
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Dutch began to settle in the Americas
1628
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Revolutionary War
1775 - 1783
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African Slave Trade
African Slave Trade to the Americas
1456 - 1863
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Post-American Revolution
Declaration of Independence
1776
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US Constitution
1787
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Civil War
1861 - 1865
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
1863
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13th Amendment abolishes slavery
1865
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Brown v. Board of Education
1954
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Civil Rights Movement
1955 - 1968
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Supreme Court legalizes interracial marriage in all states
1967
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First President with African Ancestry Elected (Barack Obama)
2008
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