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Pequot War whereEnglish colonial forces and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies attacked and burned the main Pequot Fort near the Mystic River
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history of colonial and state governments offering scalp bounties for Native Americans, particularly in the 17th through the 19th centuries, which largely ended in the early 1800s
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The 3/5ths Compromise was an agreement during the 1787 U.S. Constitutional Convention that counted three out of every five enslaved people when calculating a state's population for purposes of congressional representation and taxation
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a significant conflict between American forces led by William Henry Harrison and Native American warriors organized by Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and his brother, Tenskwatawa
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a 1820 U.S. federal law that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining a balance in Congress between slave and free states
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refers to the forced displacement of the Cherokee Nation, and other Native American tribes, from their ancestral homes in the southeastern United States to lands in the West
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authorized the U.S. government to negotiate removal treaties with Native American tribes, exchanging their ancestral lands east of the Mississippi River for territory in the West
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Slave uprising led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia, on August 21-23, 1831, resulting in the deaths of approximately 55-65 white people and hundreds of African Americans
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two United States federal laws, passed in 1793 and 1850, designed to capture and return escaped enslaved people to their owners
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The Dred Scott Decision of 1857 was a landmark Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be U.S. citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court
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The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War, that declared enslaved people in Confederate-held states to be free
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officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime
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granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, established the Due Process Clause, ensuring states cannot deprive individuals of life, liberty, or property without a fair legal process
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prohibits denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" and was ratified on February 3, 1870
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The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War
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Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army
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Plessy v. Ferguson was an 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine