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- - - - This was the decade of Ronald reagen and the conservative USA. The country was in a cold war with the SOviet union and supported anti-communist movements around the globe.
      - Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Iron curtain that seperated the democratic western countries from the communist countries of Eastern Europe throughout the cold war.
      - However in 1989 the Berlin wall felt and the cold war came to an end, leaving USA as the only superpower left in the world. The 80s will also be remembered as the decade of MTV and the music viedeo, and pop icons like Madonna and Michael Jackson.
      - 1990s
        
        In 1991 there was a short war in the Middle east, called operation desert storm. The aim of this operation whas to protect Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, which were major suppliers of oil to the USA.
        
        They also had big technologically changes and the world was introduced to the pc and the internet.
        
        The 21st century
        
        On new years eve 1999, most of the western world was worried: whould there be a worldwide computer crash? The dreaded crash never happened, but events in 2001 changed the world. On september 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked and two of them crashed into the twin towers on Manhattan, one hit the pentagon and the last one missed its target and crashed.
        
        Following the attacks
- - - - The 1920s brought the automobile, the telephone, electricity, the motion picture and more industrial growth.
      - Stoc market crash on Wall street in 1929.
      - The civil war 1861-1865 and the years after
        
        July 4, 1776
        
        Transatlantic Triangular Slave trade
        
        The Mayflower arrived in 1620
        
        1607
        
        First british colony
        
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        The ship were boarded with pilgrims who wanted more of religion freedom
        
        But they were not prepared for the cold winter so many died, but those who survived got help from the native americans
        
        After they had mange to settle down they invited the native americans over for a grand dinner as a thank you for their help, this has later turned into Thanksgiving
        
        America sold sugar, tobacco and cotton to Europe.
        
        Europe sold textiles, rum and manufactured goods to Africa
        
        And Africa sold slaves to America.
        
        This triangular trading started in 1619 an stopped in 1807
        
        The declaration of independence
        
        This was when the british colonies in America declared theimselves as independent and America became a independent counrty
        
        Back then there were 13 stripes and 13 stars at the american flag which was because of the thirteen colonies, later there become one star more for each state that was introduced
        
        Tha revolutionary war between Britain and America lasted between 1775 to 1783
        
        This was between soth and north in America
        
        The ones from north called themselves the union
        
        The ones from south america called themselves the confederate states of America
        
        The northerns wanted to get rid off slavery while the south economy was depending on slavery so they wanted to keep it
        
        Abraham Lincoln became the president in America and he promised to get rid off slavery, and that was in 1865 when the ones from north won
        
        Abraham Lincoln died to a shot to the head at a theater at april fourth in 1865, this was before the slavery was abolished.
        
        13th amendment was to abolish slavery
        
        14th amendment makes former slaves citizens of the U.S
        
        15th amendment gives all men the right to vote, regardless of race and color.
      - The Jim Craw laws
        
        These laws were supporting racial segregation
        
        These were strict laws for how you could work, where you could work, and for how much compensation.
        
        These laws appeared throughout the South as a legal way to put black citizens into the society and take away there votes, and to control where they were and how they traveled.
      - Ku Klux klan
        
        Their main targets was the afro-americans
        
        They wanted to clean up the country so that there were only whites in America
        
        They were established in 1866
      - Rosa Parks
        
        A black woman who didnt want to give up her busseat to a white man, this lead to her being arrested and this started the civil right movements, this was in 1855-56
      - Martin Luther King held a speach on the steps of the lincoln memorial, this was a chance to reach out to both white and black people, he had prepared a speech but instead he improvised and told everyone about his dream