What happened in America during segregation time ?
Segregation Timeline
1863
The Emancipation Proclamation and the Battle of Gettysburg
1808
1929-1939
1896
Act prohibiting slave importation
The Great Depression
Plessy V. Fergusson
1896-1965
1954-1968
1861-1865
1865-1877
Jim Crow laws
Civil rights movement
Secession War
The Rectonstruction era
What did the civil rights movement change for the better ?
Civil rights movement
1964
The Civil Rights Act
1960
First Black Child to go to an all-white school
The Great Depression
- Worst economic crisis in history
- Affected the entire world
Consequences :
- slowing consumer demand
- mounting consumer debt,
- decreased industrial production
- Crash of the U.S. stock market
Ban of the slave trade
March 3, 1807 → January 1, 1808 : as early as possible
- President Thomas Jefferson
→ Since the 1770s
- Importation of slave : federal crime
→ American ships since 1704
- The Domestic slave trade persisted
→ increased in importance→ smuggling of slave
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 very limited/complicated part of the great documents of human freedom
The battle of Gettysburg
- July 1, 1863 - July 3, 1863
- Robert E. Lee and George Meade
- turned the course of the Civil War
Civil rights movement
A social movement
Goal : abolish legalized segregation. → show unfair Jim Crow Laws Nonviolent mass protests and civil desobedience → Montgomery Bus Boycott - +1 year → March from Selma to Montgomery - 87km
As a result :
- The Civil rights Act - 1964
- Black people accepted in society - 1960
Jim Crow laws
- Enforced from 1896 to 1965
- Legalization of segregation
18 may 1896
PLESSY V. FERGUSSON
- a US Supreme Court landmark
- Jim Crow Laws -> did not violate the US Constitution
- doctriine : "separate but equal"
Reconstruction era
- 1865-1877
- Rebuilding after the Civil War, reshape the post-slavery nation
- Social progress for African American rights : end of slavery, grant of citizenship
- Challenges: White resistance, economic chaos, political corruption
Secession War
Causes : The Problem of slavery The problem of states rights The fighting : The confederate army attacked Sumter Fort General Lee surrendered to General Grant. 620.000 people had been killed
The civil rights act
- Signed by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964
- Prohibited discrimination in public
- Provided for the integration of schools
- Made employment discrimination illegal
It was the most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction
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What happened in America during segregation time ?
Segregation Timeline
1863
The Emancipation Proclamation and the Battle of Gettysburg
1808
1929-1939
1896
Act prohibiting slave importation
The Great Depression
Plessy V. Fergusson
1896-1965
1954-1968
1861-1865
1865-1877
Jim Crow laws
Civil rights movement
Secession War
The Rectonstruction era
What did the civil rights movement change for the better ?
Civil rights movement
1964
The Civil Rights Act
1960
First Black Child to go to an all-white school
The Great Depression
- Worst economic crisis in history
- Affected the entire world
Consequences :Ban of the slave trade
March 3, 1807 → January 1, 1808 : as early as possible
- President Thomas Jefferson
→ Since the 1770s- Importation of slave : federal crime
→ American ships since 1704- The Domestic slave trade persisted
→ increased in importance→ smuggling of slaveEmancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 very limited/complicated part of the great documents of human freedom
The battle of Gettysburg
Civil rights movement
A social movement
Goal : abolish legalized segregation. → show unfair Jim Crow Laws Nonviolent mass protests and civil desobedience → Montgomery Bus Boycott - +1 year → March from Selma to Montgomery - 87km
As a result :
Jim Crow laws
18 may 1896
PLESSY V. FERGUSSON
Reconstruction era
Secession War
Causes : The Problem of slavery The problem of states rights The fighting : The confederate army attacked Sumter Fort General Lee surrendered to General Grant. 620.000 people had been killed
The civil rights act
- Signed by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964
- Prohibited discrimination in public
- Provided for the integration of schools
- Made employment discrimination illegal
It was the most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction