Question

create a timeline showing specific events that have impacted the construction of race and ethnicity in the United States in the last 200 years – 1800s to present.

Answer 1

The start was with dum diversas in 1452, where, the pope decided to be reducing anyif the Muslim pagans. This started with slave trace beginning from west Africa.

Further, Portuguese dominion had been established all over the west coast in the year 145.

1607: masrked the first settlements in America of the English men. Petty criminals are encouraged in Virginia. With mass emigration and bond labourers.

1619: beginning of slavery with tobacco crops.

1620: utopian settlement of refuge.

1650: almost 500 African origin people found in the Virginia colony.

1662: it was declared by Virginia that children who were born to the slave women would also be slaves.

1676: rebellion against bond servitude by bacon’s rebellion.

1705: slave codes enacted in Virginia for prevention of biracial uprisings such as the above mentioned rebellion.

1793: Slave labour intensified by cotton gin.

1800s: expansion of the Americas on the west end, with slave holding soreadingto the south territories with a debate on the north end.

1823: absolute rights were given by the orders of the Supreme Court.

1830: Indian removal act for relocation of the native Americans in the established territories.

1861-1865: civil war.

1865: legal reinforcement of racial segregation: