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The Massacre at Mystic was a pivotal event during the Pequot War where a combined force of English colonists and their Native American allies surrounded and set fire to a fortified Pequot village near the Mystic River in Connecticut. The Massacre at Mystic was a pivotal event during the Pequot War where a combined force of English colonists and their Native American allies surrounded and set fire to a fortified Pequot village near the Mystic River in Connecticut. -
The Scalp Act, enacted by the colonial government of Massachusetts, was a proclamation that offered bounties for the scalps of Native Americans. -
The Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention that determined how enslaved people would be counted for both taxation and representation in Congress. -
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson, made it illegal to import new slaves into the United States. -
The Battle of Tippecanoe was a conflict between U.S. forces led by William Henry Harrison and the warriors of Tecumseh's Native American confederacy. -
The Missouri Compromise was a legislative agreement that sought to maintain the balance of power between slave and free states in the U.S. Congress -
The Indian Removal Act, signed into law by President Andrew Jackson, authorized the president to negotiate with Native American tribes for their removal from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River -
The Nat Turner Rebellion was a slave revolt led by Nat Turner, an enslaved man, in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner and a group of fellow slaves killed approximately 60 white people. The rebellion was ultimately suppressed, and Turner was captured and executed. -
The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of Native American tribes, primarily the Cherokee, from their homelands in the southeastern United States to designated Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. -
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. It required citizens and law enforcement in free states to assist in the capture and return of enslaved people who had escaped to freedom. -
The Dred Scott Decision, formally known as Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a landmark Supreme Court case. The Court ruled that Dred Scott, an enslaved man who had lived in free territories, was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in federal court. The ruling also declared that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens of the United States. -
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. It declared that all enslaved people in Confederate-held states were to be set free. -
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially abolished and prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime. -
The 14th Amendment is one of the Reconstruction Amendments and addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law. It granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people -
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote -
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, or also called Custer's Last Stand, was a major conflict between U.S. Army forces and a coalition of Native American tribes -
The Battle of Wounded Knee was a massacre of nearly 300 Lakota men, women, and children by the U.S. Army -
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.