Early American Discrimination

  • Massacre at mystic

    the Mohegan and Narragansett tribes, attacked and set fire to a Pequot fort near the Mystic River
  • The Scalp Act

    paid bounties for the scalps of Native Americans, inciting violence and mass murder as part of a campaign of extermination and human trophy-taking
  • The 3/5ths Compromise The 3/5ths Compromise

    the enslaved population was counted for purposes of both legislative representation in the U.S. House of Representatives and for direct taxation by the government
  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    American forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison fought against a Native American confederacy led by Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother
  • The Missouri Compromise

    admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining a balance in the Senate between slave and free states
  • Battle of the Little Bighorn

    occurred as a result of escalating tensions over treaty violations and the U.S. government's attempt to force tribes onto reservations after the discovery of gold in the Black Hills
  • Indian Removal Act

    authorized the president to negotiate treaties with Native American tribes to exchange their lands east of the Mississippi River for lands west of the river
  • Trail of Tears

    the forced relocation of approximately 60,000 Native Americans, primarily the Cherokee, along with Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes
  • nat turner rebellion

    Believing he was divinely chosen to liberate enslaved people, Turner and his followers killed around 55-60 white men, women, and children before the revolt was suppressed a few days later
  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    two federal laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850, designed to capture and return escaped enslaved people to their owners
  • dred scott decision

    declared that people of African descent, whether enslaved or free, could not be citizens of the United States and thus had no right to sue in federal court
  • 13th Amendment

    abolished slavery and involuntary servitude across the nation, with the exception of involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime for which an individual has been convicted
  • Slave Trade Ends in the United States

    Slavery ended in the United States with the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, which abolished slavery nationwide
  • 15th Amendment

    prohibits denying citizens the right to vote based on race, color, or previous servitude, granting African American men the right to vote
  • Battle of Wounded Knee Battle of Wounded Knee

    involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army.
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    established the "separate but equal" doctrine, allowing for racial segregation under the Fourteenth Amendment as long as separate facilities for different races were equal.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War