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The Mystic massacre – also known as the Pequot massacre and the Battle of Mystic Fort – took place on May 26, 1637 during the Pequot War, when a force from the Connecticut Colony under Captain John Mason and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River. -
offered bounties for the scalps of Native Americans, primarily in North America during the 17th to 19th centuries. These scalp acts served as a brutal tool of extermination, directly supporting the mass murder of men, women, and children by paying individuals for proof of kills.
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1787 Constitutional Convention that allowed Southern states to count three out of every five enslaved individuals for Congressional representation and taxation
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occurred on November 7, 1811, near present-day Lafayette, Indiana, where American forces under Governor William Henry Harrison defeated a confederation of Native American warriors led by Tenskwatawa
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1820 agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, preserving the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, and prohibited slavery in the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line
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1830 law signed by President Andrew Jackson that authorized the president to negotiate treaties to remove Native American tribes from their ancestral lands east of the Mississippi River to lands in the west
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slave uprising led by Nat Turner in August 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia, that killed around 55 white people before being suppressed by state and federal troops
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series of forced displacements of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River. Authorized by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 under President Andrew Jackson
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federal law that strengthened the return of escaped slaves, requiring citizens and marshals to assist in their capture and return to their enslavers, even in free states
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declared African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be citizens of the United States and had no right to sue in federal court
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an executive order issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War, that declared slaves in Confederate-held territories to be free
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abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime
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Slavery and the domestic slave trade effectively ended in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865
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grants birthright citizenship, guarantees equal protection of the laws and due process of law to all people under a state's jurisdiction, and extends civil rights protections to all Americans
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prohibits states from denying citizens the right to vote based on their race, color, or previous condition of servitude