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The English colonists and the allies attacked a Pequot village, setting fire to the fort and killing an estimated 400 to 700 men, women, and children. -
Engagement between U.S. forces led by William Henry Harrison and a confederation of Native American tribes led by the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa, at a village called Prophetstown in Indiana. -
Forced removal of approximately 60,000 members of the Five Civilized Tribes—Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole—from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River between 1830 and 1850, following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. -
Authorized the president to negotiate treaties with Native American tribes to exchange their lands east of the Mississippi River for territory west of the Mississippi. -
Took place in Southampton County, Virginia. 70 followers killed 55-65 white people. The rebellion resulted in the deaths of Turner and dozens of enslaved people during the initial uprising, in the ensuing retaliations, which led to even harsher laws restricting the rights of Black people in the South. -
Case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, which declared that enslaved or formerly enslaved people of African descent could not be citizens and had no rights in federal court. The decision also stated that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories, thereby invalidating the Missouri Compromise. -
Executive order issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln . It declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious Confederate states were to be freed and became eligible for military service in the Union Army. -
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime. It declared that slavery or forced labor could not exist within the United States and granted Congress the power to enforce this article through appropriate legislation. -
Granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S., including formerly enslaved people, and prohibited states from denying any person equal protection of the laws or life, liberty, or property without due process. -
Prohibits the federal government and state governments from denying or restricting a citizen's right to vote based on their "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was a decisive victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes over the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry. Also known as "Custer's Last Stand" or the "Battle of the Greasy Grass," the engagement was a significant event in the Great Sioux War, triggered by the U.S. government's failure to uphold treaties and the discovery of gold in the Black Hills. -
involved U.S. Army soldiers killing approximately 300 Lakota people, mostly women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota after a botched attempt to disarm them. The incident, which also resulted in the deaths of 25 U.S. soldiers