Women/African Americans Timeline APUSH
Category: Otro
Actualizado: 12 may 2019
Shivani Kulkarni
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Created byShivani Kulkarni
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First captured Africans land in JamestownMiddle PassageSlave revolt in the West IndiesSlave systems codifiedWashington writes in a letter that he is opposed to institution of slavery despite owning slavesThree-Fifths Clause- for purposes of representation in government, 3/5 of slaves are countedNorthwest Ordinance prohibits slavery in the Northwest territoryHaitian Revolution succeeds under leadership of Toussaint L’OuvertureCongress votes to end the slave tradeFrederick Douglass publishes his Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassHarriet Tubman escapes slavery to Pennsylvania and begins helping fugitives through the Underground RailroadCompromise of 1850Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s CabinDred Scott decisionJohn Brown’s raid in Harpers FerryEmancipation ProclamationFreedmen’s Bureau establishedThirteenth Amendment ratifiedKu Klux Klan foundedFourteenth Amendment ratifiedFifteenth Amendment ratifiedCompromise of 1877Booker T. Washington gives his “Atlanta Compromise” speechPlessy v. Ferguson SCOTUS decision allows for the establishment of the “separate but equal” doctrineWEB DuBois publishes Souls of Black FolkBeginning of the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington)Brown v. Board of Education decision strikes down “separate but equal” doctrineEisenhower sends federal troops to Little Rock Central HighSDS begins first restaurant/lunch counter sit-ins as nonviolent protests for mistreatment of African AmericansFreedom RidesMLK’s March on WashingtonTwenty-fourth Amendment prohibits poll taxesCivil Rights Act of 1964Malcolm X assassinatedSelma Freedom MarchVoting Rights ActKerner CommissionMLK assassinatedBarack Obama elected as America’s first African American presidentMayflower arrives in New England (Pilgrims immigrated to the Americas as families, with women and children)Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony to Rhode Island for leading religious congregations with women and asserting influence in the churchSalem Witch Trials- targets were mostly women, often widowsDebates about role of women- essay published by John Peter Zenger titled “Arguments for Educating Women”Phyllis Wheatley publishes Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and MoralWomen play instrumental role in Revolution (leading boycotts, providing supplies to troops, harboring troops)Dorothea Dix spearheads hospital and prison reformSeneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of SentimentsSojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” speech in OhioWomen vote in WyomingMinor v. HappersettWomen’s Christian Temperance Union foundedUprising of the 20,000Women’s suffrage parade in Washington led by suffragette Alice Paul and NAWSACarrie Chapman Catt announces “Winning Plan”Nineteenth Amendment ratifiedRachel Carson publishes Silent SpringBetty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique and Congress passes the Equal Pay ActEqual Rights Amendment approved in CongressTitle IX of the Education Amendments ActRoe v. Wade decision protects women’s abortion rightsPeríodos
initial emergence of anti-slavery movement (Liberator, American Anti-Slavery Society, World Anti-Slavery Convention)Bleeding KansasAmerican Civil WarHiram Revels becomes first African American in CongressGreat Migration- exodus of African Americans from South to North in search of jobs and social mobilityMontgomery bus boycottsRepublican motherhood emerges as prominent idea about role of women in American societyCult of DomesticityWomen as nurses in the Civil War (Clara Barton and Red Cross, Louisa May Alcott)Women in the Progressive EraRoaring ‘20sHome Front during World War IIEra of conformity, suburbanization, return of the housewife image of woman
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