Discrimination timeline

  • massacre at mystic

    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.
  • The scalp act

    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.
  • The 3/5ths compromise

    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.
  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    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.
  • The Missouri Compromise

    a law that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
  • Indian Removal Act

    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.
  • Trail of tears

    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.
  • nat turner rebellion

    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.
  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    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
  • Dred scott decision

    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.
  • emancipation proclamation

    It declared that enslaved people in Confederate states fighting against the Union were free and could join the Union military.
  • Slave Trade Ends in the United States

    This amendment ended chattel slavery throughout the country following the American Civil War.
  • 13th amendment

    abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
  • 14th amendment

    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".
  • 15th amendment

    prohibits denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  • Battle of the Little Bighorn

    The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne.
  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    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.
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Supreme Court ruling that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.