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The Massacre at Mystic, or the Pequot Massacre, was a brutal event, during the Pequot War, where English colonial forces and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies attacked and destroyed a fortified Pequot village near the Mystic River.
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Nat Turner's Rebellion was a bloody uprising of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, led by Nat Turner, a self-styled prophet, in August 1831. The revolt resulted in the deaths of at least 55 white people, though the exact number varies across sources. -
The Dred Scott Decision was a 1857 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that stated people of African descent, enslaved or free, could not be citizens of the United States, denying them the right to sue in federal court -
The Emancipation Proclamation was an Executive Order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring that all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory were to be freed