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2300 bc
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1607
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1619
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-Wrote in journal about "Negars"
-Globalization/Capitalism: Native Americans, English, African Slaves, Dutch Ships
1620
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1620 - 1700
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-Matrilinial: Runs through mom's side of the family; smart because if you were born a slave, you'd have to stay a slave; incentive for white males to rape their black female slaves so they could keep their babies as slaves
1775
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1776
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-Thomas Jefferson
-Against King because he won't let them go past the Appalachians and steal more land from the Natives
1789
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10 Slavery Provisions:
-2nd Amendment - Right to Bear Arms: fear of slave revolt and not being able to protect themselves; if President says thee's a war, when President calls the militia, whites won't be able to defend themselves against slaves should they need to
-3/5th Compromise and Electoral College:
-whoever has most population has the most power
-fear north would end slavery through popular vote -> electoral college
-Senate: don't represent people, represent land
-Senators don't represent people, they represent land
-Skew it to benefit states with less population
-Incentive to get more slaves
-Electoral College: always goes in favor of the White Supremacists (Right Side)
1790
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-Only Free Whites can be American citizens
1803
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-Doubles size of country
-New Orleans: sneak slaves in through here and the land is better
1808
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Date the Constitution says slave trade must end
-Virginians producing enough slaves and want to sell excess to other colonies
-4/5 of the 1st 5 Presidents from VA, they make the rules
1812
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1813
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-If British win, America not country anymore
-Slaves and hirelings to be killed because they tried to run
-in absence of slaves, no country
1820
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-Slavery could be practiced below Mason-Dixon line, couldn't be practiced above it
1828
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1831
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-Nat Turner was slave who instigated other slaves to revolt
-After Rebellion, life got significantly harder for slaves for the next 30-40 years
-Not allowed to read or write, have gatherings, churches
-NC law that gives slave owners/renters the right to do anything to their slaves: any law that prevents the ability to kill slave, makes it impossible to own slaves
-Often outcome of failed movements: opposition cracks down
1836
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-Texas leaves Mexico because Mexico abolishes slavery
1845
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1861 - 1865
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1862: South is crushing it; Whites in North riot against Lincoln
1862
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-If you're white person in the North, and you go to land in the Midwest, and manage to squat in it for a year, you can have it
-How?
-sends people out to kill Natives on that land
-46 million white people can trace their wealth to this Act (not including people in the South, Texas Homestead Acts, Florida Homestead Acts, etc)
1865 - 1877
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-North keeps troops in South to enforce new Amendments
-Freed blacks: (1) find family, (2) build schools, (3) build churches
-Introduction of public schools: newly freed blacks have no money and weren't allowed to read while enslaved so no one knows how to read or write
1876 - 1896
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-Criminalize being black
Ex. in Lousiana it was illegal to steal chicken because blacks were way more likely to commit this crime
-Loitering crime
-Every black male on the 1st of every year has to prove employment under white man - punishable by slavery by corporations, schools
1876
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Hayes (Republican) becomes president in exchange for pulling troops out of South
1882
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-Chinese were here to build railroads
-When RRs done, we kick them out
1896
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-Plessy v. Ferguson: 7-1 vote; separate but equal on the basis of the 14th Amendment; dissent introduces "colorblind", which is racist term
1903
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FDR tells Japan not to send more people over
After, increased immigration from East/South Europe (Italy, Greece, Poland ,etc)
-Issue: they're not considered white
White=Protestant
1923
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Ozawa v. US
-Ozawa claims whiteness (skin pale, culturally white)
-SC says: white isn't color or culture; white is scientific designation
US v. Thind
-Indian man
-scientific - Caucus Mountains stretches to India
-SC says: "common man" - whatever an average white man thinks it is
1924
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immigration Quotas for Different Countries
0 Asians
0 Africans
Some Southern and Eastern Europeans
All the English
1924
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Become Citizens by default
1930
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Hindu
Catholic
Jewish
Protestant
All considered races
1941 - 1945
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Hitler says that by trying to build the perfect race he's using American ideas
1944
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SC ruled you can't separate US citizens by race, except in times of national security
1945
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White vets get to go to college
1964
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-Desegregation
-Voting Rights Act
-Fair Housing Act
1968
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Housing loans given to whites
1968
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-Southern Strategy
-Speak for the "silent majority"
-1st thing, get someone on SC who will oppose blacks -> William Reinquist
1978
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1980 - 1988
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Lee Atwater (member of Reagan's team) says: need to use abstract economic policies that hurt blacks more than whites
Rise of Republican power
-Known racist
-Opposed FHA
-Fires Angela Davis
-Announces Presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi where freedom riders were lynched
-Hear of aids for the first time - think it's queer people disease
-Black people crime rate decreases
-Black people incarceration rate increases
-Amplifies War on Drugs
-Disenfranchisement
-Appoints Clarence Thomas and John Roberts (who writes book on opposing FHA) to SC
1992
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1994
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First time in 40 years
Gut federal government
2003
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"won't need it in 25 years"
2013
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SC rules VRA Unconstitutional