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Black History Month

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Angela first African woman documented in America
Triangle of Trade the trading system between the Americas, England and Africa
cash crop farm crop raised to be sold for money
cash crops from the Americas Sugar, coffee, rice, cotton and tobacco
tobacco Most valuable cash crop in the 1600's; can be consumed by chewing, smoking, and sniffing
sugar cash crop used to make molasses and rum
indentured servant Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
slave a person who becomes the property of others
pirate a person who attacks and robs ships at sea
1808 Slave trade ended in America
1865 13th amendment (freed the slaves)
Jim Crow Laws state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation
The Great Migration the mass movement of about five million southern blacks to the north and west between 1915 and 1960
Harlem Renaissance the blossoming of African American intellectual life and culture in the 1920's and 1930's.
Brown vs. The Board of Education 1954- court decision that declared state laws segregating schools to be unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Little Rock Nine Nine black students who were first to enter Central High, directly opposing the governor of Arkansas
Greensboro Sit-Ins four black students sat at the "whites only" lunch counter in a department store; the protest sparked similar efforts
Freedom Riders Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation
Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
Voting Rights Act of 1965 a policy designed to reduce the barriers to voting for those suffering discrimination.
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