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English colonists and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies attacked the Pequot Fort. Forces under Captain John Mason set the fort ablaze, resulting in the deaths of many Pequot men, women, and children, This pivotal event led to the near-annihilation of the Pequot tribe, solidifying English control over the fur trade in the region. The Massacre at Mystic is important to Early American Discrimination because it showed the brutal tactics the colonists used over the native populations. -
"The Scalp Act" isn't one specific law, but a term referring to various historical laws in the United States and other regions that paid bounties for the scalps of enemies, notably Native Americans, making scalping a financially motivated act of violence. It’s important to Early American Discrimination, early American discrimination against Native Americans was characterized by policies of removal and assimilation, fueled by a desire for land and resources. -
A decisive American victory over a confederation of Native American tribes led by Tecumseh's brother, Tenskwatawa (the Prophet).The Battle of Tippecanoe was significant for early American discrimination because it fractured Tecumseh's confederacy, weakening Native American resistance and clearing the way for increased settler expansion and forced land sales that dispossessed Native tribes. -
May 28, 1830, -authorized the president to negotiate treaties with Native American tribes to exchange their ancestral lands east of the Mississippi River for territory west of it.Early American discrimination was important because it created foundational hierarchies, institutions, and policies that continue to shape American society, resulting in lasting disparities in wealth, opportunity, and rights for marginalized groups, particularly Black and Indigenous peoples. -
May 23, 1831,-the forced displacement of the natives Americans from their homelands in the southeastern United States to land west of the Mississippi River, known as Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), between the 1830s and 1850s. The Trail of Tears is important to early American discrimination because it highlights the what Indigenous pople went through such as prejudice and land greed, which led to forced displacement, suffering, and death for thousands of Native Americans. -
August 21, 1831,A violent uprising of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, led by the enslaved preacher Nat Turner. Turner, who believed he was called by God to free his people from slavery, gathered followers and killed at least 55 white people as they marched through the county. It’s important to Early American Discrimination because it shocked the white south, which led to harsher slave codes and increased restrictions. -
-The Dred Scott Decision of 1857 was a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that denied citizenship and the right to sue in federal court to all people of African descent, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free.The Dred Scott decision was crucial to early American discrimination because it legally could not ban slavery in the territories, it considered enslaved people to be property, which inflamed national tensions over slavery and pushed the nation closer to the Civil War. -
January 1, 1863,-an Executive Order issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War, that declared enslaved people in Confederate-held states were to be freed. While it did not end slavery nationwide the Proclamation was a pivotal step.The Emancipation Proclamation was crucial to early American discrimination because it ended slavery, which was the most egregious form of discrimination in America. -
January 31, 1865,- The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.The amendment also gave Congress the power to enforce its provisions through legislation.The 13th Amendment is important to understanding early American discrimination because it formally ended chattel slavery. -
The 15th Amendment is a part of the U.S. Constitution that prohibits denying or abridging citizens' right to vote based on race,color, or previous condition of servitude. It was important to early American discrimination because it was passed specifically to prevent states from denying voting rights based on race, thus protecting newly freed African American men from being disenfranchised after the Civil War -
a pivotal 1876 clash in which Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors, led by figures like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, decisively defeated the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.The Battle of the Little Bighorn is important to understanding early American discrimination because the U.S. government and public reacted with outrage and increased anti-Native American sentiment. -
The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved individuals, and prohibited states from denying any person equal protection of the laws or depriving them of life, liberty, or property without due process.It was crucial for early American discrimination by legally requiring states to treat all persons within their jurisdiction equally, providing a basis for future civil rights and anti-discrimination lawsuits. -
December 29, 1890,-approximately 150-300 Lakota individuals were slaughtered by the United States Army, troops in the area of wounded knee Cree in southwestern south Dakota. The massacre was the climax of the U.S. army’s efforts to repress the Plains people in the 19th century.The Battle of Wounded Knee is important to early American discrimination because it was a brutal culmination. -
Homer Plessy, was arrested for violating Louisiana's Separate Car Act, which mandated segregation on railway cars. The Court's majority ruled that this law did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, which legitimized Jim Crow laws and systemic racism for decades.Plessy v. Ferguson is important to early American discrimination because the 1896 Supreme Court ruling established the “separate but equal” doctrine,which legitimized racial segregation.