Early American Discrimination Timeline

  • Massacre at Mystic

    Massacre at Mystic

    the English launched a full-scale massacre against the Patawomeck and other area Virginia Indian tribes
  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat turner’s rebellion was a bloody slave uprising in Southampton. In the following weeks, white mobs killed hundreds of Black people in retaliation, and Nat Turner was eventually captured, tried, and hanged.
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision

    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.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    It ensured that in confederate states slaves who were still in rebellion were set free. Tho that did not end slavery in loyal boarder states. The Emancipation Proclamation did made a few good impacts. It completely changed the war, increased union strength and expanded freedom.
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    Lyman Trumbull wrote this amendment not to stop slavery but to stop it for the innocent people. People who had committed crimes would get enslaved. Although it caused a lot of incarceration it had some positive things to such as setting some people free.
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and established equal protection under the law and due process of law for all citizens
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    Stops the US government and states from denying any citizen the right to vote based on their race, color, or slavery.
  • battle of the little bighorn

    battle of the little bighorn

    defeated and contained by white settlers, who outnumbered them, had more technology, more money, and who destroyed their traditional way of life. The dead laying there due to the battle was crushed or decapitated heads and disembowelments.
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Plessy vs. Ferguson

    this is the separate but equal court case. They had to have everything spilt for blacks and whites. Separate bathrooms, ticket stands, water fountains etc.