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The Mystic Massacre, also known as the Pequot Massacre or the Battle of Mystic Fort, occurred on May 26, 1637, during the Pequot War. -
The Scalp Act" refers to laws, particularly in colonial America and the American West, that offered financial bounties for scalps, primarily those of Native Americans, as a means of exterminating Indigenous populations. -
The 3/5 Compromise was an agreement made at the 1787 Constitutional Convention that counted three-fifths of a state's enslaved population for both legislative representation in the U.S. Congress and for direct taxation purposes -
The Battle of Tippecanoe, fought on November 7, 1811, was a significant conflict between American forces, led by Governor William Henry Harrison, and Native American warriors allied with Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa (The Prophet). -
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a legislative agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining a balance of power between slave and free states in the U.S. Congress. -
The Trail of Tears refers to the forced displacement of Native American tribes, primarily the Cherokee, from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to designated territory west of the Mississippi River, mainly in what is now Oklahoma, following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. -
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was 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. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a bloody slave uprising in Southampton County, Virginia, beginning on August 21, 1831, led by Nat Turner, a self-styled prophet and enslaved preacher. -
The Fugitive Slave Acts were two federal laws passed in 1793 and 1850 that enabled the capture and return of enslaved people who had escaped to free states -
The Dred Scott decision of 1857 declared that people of African descent, whether enslaved or free, could not be U.S. citizens and thus had no right to sue in federal court. -
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order by President Abraham Lincoln that declared enslaved people in the rebellious Confederate states to be free, taking effect on January 1, 1863. -
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude across the nation, with the exception of involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime for which a party has been convicted. -
The international slave trade to the United States was banned in 1808, but the institution of slavery itself was only abolished with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution on December 6, 1865, following the Civil War. -
The 14th Amendment is a key component of the U.S. Constitution that granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and prohibited states from depriving any person of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" and denying "equal protection of the laws". -
The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibits states from denying a citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory. -
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States ... -
an 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, allowing states to segregate public facilities for different races as long as those facilities were supposedly equal in quality.