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Massacre at Mystic happened during the Pequot War. When the American colonists and their Native American allies attacked a pequot village in Connecticut. This caused around 500 to 600 deaths. -
The 3/5ths Compromise was an agreement that counted each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person for determining a sates population and representation in Congress. -
The slave trade ended in the U.S. in 1808, when a federal law banned the importation od enslaved people, through slavery itself continued within the country. -
The Battle of Tippecanoe was a clash between U.S. forces, led by Governor William Henery Harrison, and Native American warriors, led by Tecumsehs brother Tenskwatawa. The U.S. won, which weakened Native American resistance in northwest territory. -
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery north of the 36°30´ line in the Louisiana Territory. -
The Trail of Tears was a forced relocation of Native Americans. Mainly the Cherokee, from their homelands to territory west of the Mississippi in the 1830s resulting in thousands of deaths from disease, hunger and exposure. -
The Indian Removal Act authorized the U.S. government to force Native American tribes to relocate west of the Mississippi River, leading to forced migration known as the Trail of Tears. -
The Nat Turner Rebellion was a 1831 slave uprising in Virginia lead by Nat Turner. Around 70 enslaved people killed about 55 white people. The revolt was quickly suppressed and Turner was executed. This lead to stricter laws against enslaved people. -
The Fugitive Slave Act required that escaped enslaved people be returned to their owners. Even if those slaves were found in free states. They imposed penalties on those who helped them escape. -
The Dred Scott decision was a Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not U.S. citizens and that Congress couldn't ban slavery in the U.S. territories. This would eventually lead to the Civil War. -
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln in 1863, it declared all enslaved people in Confederate states to be free, shifting the Civil Wars focus to ending slavery. -
The 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865 to abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, except as a punishment for crime. -
The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1668. It granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S. and guaranteed equal protection under the law. -
The 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870. This gave African American men the right to vote by prohibiting voting discrimination based on race. -
The Scalp Act was a U.S. law that paid bounties for Native American scalps to encourage settlers and soldiers to fight and kill Native Americans during westward expansion. -
The Battle of Little Bighorn was a fight between Native American tribes, ed by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, and the U.S. soldiers under General Custer. Native Americans won decisively. -
The Battle of Wounded Knee was a massacre in South Dakota where U.S. soldiers killed around 300 Lakota Sioux, marking the end of major Native American resistance to U.S. expansion. -
The Plessy vs. Ferguson was an 1896 Supreme Court Case that upheld racial segregation "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional