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The Massacre of Mystic, also known as the Pequot massacre or the Battle of Mystic Fort occurred on May 26, 1637, during the Pequot War. A joint English and Narragansett/Mohegan force, led by Captain John Mason, set fire to the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River in what is now Connecticut -
This act is referring to colonial-era laws, or scalp laws that established bounties for the scalps of Native Americans, effectively incentivizing violence against them, particularly in the American colonies and later the United States -
This was an agreement made at the 1787 U.S. Constitutional Convention that allowed Southern states to count three fifths of their enslaved population for purposes of congressional representation and direct taxation. -
This battle happened on November 7, 1811, in Indiana, where American forces led by William Henry Harrison defeated the Native American confederacy assembled by Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa -
This compromise was a 1820 agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining a balance of power in Congress between free and slave states. -
The trail of tears refers to the forced displacement of Native American tribes, primarily the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Seminole, from their ancestral land in the southeastern United States to west of the Mississippi River. -
This act was a U.S. law signed by President Andrew Jackson that authorized the president to negotiate with Native American tribes to exchange their ancestral lands east of the Mississippi River for territory West of the river -
This Rebellion was a slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia resulting in the deaths of at least 55 white people, and resulted in stricter slave codes and harsher laws limiting the rights of enslaved and free Black people in the South -
This was two federal laws passed in 1793 and 1850 that allowed slaveholders to capture and reclaim escaped slaves from free states, with the 1850 act being significantly more severe. -
This Decision declared that people of African descent, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court -
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War. It declared that enslaved people in the Confederate states still in rebellion against the Union were freed and allowed to enlist in the Union Army -
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude across the nation, with the sole expectation as a punishment for a duty convicted crime -
Slavery ended in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution on December 6, 1865, which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude nationwide. -
The 14th amendment, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S. -
the 15th amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits denying or abridging a citizen’s right to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude -
This battle was fought on June 25-26, 1876, in Montana Territory between the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry and combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes -
Battle of Wounded Knee involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army. More than 250 people of the Lakota were killed and 51 wounded. Some estimates placed the number of dead as high as 300 -
this was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal”