Discrimination

  • Massacre at Mystic

    Massacre at Mystic

    Colonist set fire to the village of the Pequots
  • The scalp act

    The scalp act

    practice of offering bounties for Native American scalps by colonial and state governments, which began in the 17th century and continued into the 19th century, particularly in places like California.
  • 3/5 compromise

    3/5 compromise

    enslaved people would be counted as three-fifths of a person for the purpose of congressional representation and taxation
  • Battle of tippecanoe

    Battle of tippecanoe

    American forces led by William Henry Harrison and Native American warriors associated with Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and his brother, "The Prophet," Tenskwatawa.
  • The Missouri compromise

    The Missouri compromise

    The compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and prohibited slavery in the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory north
  • Indian removal act

    Indian removal act

    law signed by President Andrew Jackson that authorized the president to negotiate with Native American tribes for their lands east of the Mississippi River in exchange for lands to the west.
  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion

    One of the biggest slave rebellions in the U.S. many dead
  • Trail of tears

    Trail of tears

    the forcible removal of over 100,000 Indigenous people from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to Indian Territory
  • The fugitive slave act

    The fugitive slave act

    capture and return of escaped enslaved people to their enslavers, even if they had fled to free states.
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision

    He was man held in a free state and thought he was free but he was ruled over and told no matter what he was basically property.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    Order issued by President Abraham Lincoln threat declared enslaved people in the confederate states sill in rebellion against the union were forever free.
  • The 13th amendment

    The 13th amendment

    abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime after due conviction.
  • Slavery ends in the us

    Slavery ends in the us

    The 13th Amendment was ratified, officially abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States and guarantees that all citizens are protected by the law.
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    prohibits the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn

    Victory where Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors, led by figures like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, defeated Lt. Col. George Custer and the U.S.
  • Battle of wounded Knee

    Battle of wounded Knee

    three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army.
  • Plessy V.S Ferguson

    Plessy V.S Ferguson

    The Court's “separate but equal” decision