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the Mohegan and Narragansett tribes, attacked and set fire to a Pequot fort near the Mystic River
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paid bounties for the scalps of Native Americans, inciting violence and mass murder as part of a campaign of extermination and human trophy-taking
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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
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American forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison fought against a Native American confederacy led by Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother
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admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining a balance in the Senate between slave and free states
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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
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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
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the forced relocation of approximately 60,000 Native Americans, primarily the Cherokee, along with Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes
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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
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two federal laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850, designed to capture and return escaped enslaved people to their owners
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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
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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
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Slavery ended in the United States with the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, which abolished slavery nationwide
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prohibits denying citizens the right to vote based on race, color, or previous servitude, granting African American men the right to vote
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involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army.
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established the "separate but equal" doctrine, allowing for racial segregation under the Fourteenth Amendment as long as separate facilities for different races were equal.
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an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War