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During the Pequot war, English colonists and their Native allies attacked the Pequot villages, killing hundred of them.
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Enslaved preacher Nat Turner led a violent uprising in Virginia. Spread fear among slaveholder, leading to harsher slave law and restriction.
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Pennsylvania law offered bounties for Native American scalps. This encouraged violence and near-genocide of Native people.
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Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not citizens and had no rights to sue in federal courts. Strengthened slavery and increased sectional tensions before the Civil War.
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Issued by President Abraham Lincoln, it declared enslaved people in confederate state free. It changed the civil war into a fight against slavery.
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Abolished slavery in the U.S Legally ended slavery, though discrimination continued.
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Granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to everyone born in the U.S. to became a foundation for civil rights.
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Gave African American men the right to vote. Many were still blocked by discrimination and Jim Crow laws.
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Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors defeated General Custer’s U.S. forces. It showed Native resistances but led to harsher U.S crackdowns
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Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation under “separation but equal” Legalized discrimination for decades