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African American History

African American History. Servitude to Slavery. Indentured servants- Virginia and Maryland before 1675 Head right system Bacon’s rebellion conflict between backcountry and tidewater gentry, -cause to revaluate indentured servants- move to slaves Beginning of slavery- tobacco.

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African American History

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  1. African American History

  2. Servitude to Slavery • Indentured servants- Virginia and Maryland before 1675 • Head right system • Bacon’s rebellion conflict between backcountry and tidewater gentry, -cause to revaluate indentured servants- move to slaves • Beginning of slavery- tobacco

  3. Plantations and Slave Trade • Slave trade- middle passage- Brazil and Caribbean • Cultural practices brought from Africa • Tobacco in Chesapeake, rice in South Carolina • Development of Slaves in South due to • Low supply of indentured servants • Spread of tobacco • Colonists begin to view bondage as morally wrong • Compete in slave trade • Stono Rebellion- earliest slave rebellions – slaves in Charleston tried to flee to Spanish Florida

  4. Abolition and Abolitionists • Second Great Awakening • American Colonization Society • William Lloyd Garrison • Frederick Douglass • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Emancipation Proclamation • African Americans at war

  5. Reconstruction • Amendments: 13, 14, 15 • Sharecropping • Black Codes • Compromise of 1877 • Slaughterhouse cases and Civil rights cases 1888 • Plessy v Ferguson • Booker T. Washington

  6. Progressive Era • WEB Du Bois- Social Equality, NAACP • Left out of Progress • Ida B Wells • Rise of KKK- Birth of a Nation • WWI- segregation

  7. 1920s • Harlem Renaissance • Marcus Garvey

  8. Great Depression/New Deal • Shift in Voting • Eleanor Roosevelt WWII • Homefront • Segregated units

  9. 1945-present • Dixiecrats 1948 • Brown v Board • Little Rock 9- Eisenhower • MLK Jr. -SCLC, Letter from Birmingham Jail, non-violence • Sit ins Separatists • Marcus Garvey , • Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael (SNCC) • Roy Wilkens- NAACP • Huey Newton- Black Panthers

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