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This event was a turning point in the war, with English forces and their allies killing men, women, children, and the elderly who were inside the fort, a number often cited as between 300 and 700 Pequots.
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any number of historical laws, particularly in colonial North America, that authorized bounties for scalps, often as a means of incentivizing the extermination of Indigenous peoples.
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an agreement made during the 1787 U.S. Constitutional Convention that determined three-fifths of the enslaved population would be counted when determining a state's total population for the purposes of Congressional representation and taxation.
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Occurring at the Native American confederacy's headquarters near present-day Indiana, the battle was a significant blow to Tecumseh's movement, ending mass tribal resistance to American expansion in the Northwest Territory and contributing to the escalating tensions that led to the War of 1812.
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a law that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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a U.S. law signed by President Andrew Jackson that authorized the President to negotiate treaties with Native American tribes for their removal from ancestral lands in the East to territories west of the Mississippi River.
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the forced relocation of approximately 60,000 Native Americans from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River, primarily to Indian Territory , between 1830 and 1850.
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The rebellion, the deadliest slave revolt in U.S. history, sparked widespread fear and led to increased restrictions on Black people across the South, as well as brutal acts of retaliation against suspected rebels.
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a pair of federal laws passed in 1793 and 1850 that required the capture and return of enslaved people who escaped from one state to another
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the U.S. Supreme Court that denied African Americans, enslaved or free, citizenship and the right to sue in federal court. The court also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, asserting that Congress could not prohibit slavery in U.S. territories.
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It declared that enslaved people in Confederate states fighting against the Union were free and could join the Union military.
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This amendment ended chattel slavery throughout the country following the American Civil War.
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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 U.S., including formerly enslaved people, and prohibited states from denying any person "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" and the "equal protection of the laws".
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prohibits denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne.
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U.S. soldiers killed nearly 300 Lakota people in South Dakota during a botched attempt to disarm them, marking a brutal culmination of the Ghost Dance movement and the Pine Ridge Campaign.
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Supreme Court ruling that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.