SOCIAL ISSUES 2

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