Early American Discrimination Timeline

  • Massacre at Mystic

    Massacre at Mystic
    a force from Connecticut Colony under Captain John Mason and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River
  • The Scalp Act

    The Scalp Act
    made it legal to kill Indian people
  • The 3/5ths Compromise

    The 3/5ths Compromise
    three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation
  • Slave Trade Ends in the United States

    Slave Trade Ends in the United States
    stopped the flow of slaves into the country
  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    Battle of Tippecanoe
    The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought between American soldiers and Native American warriors along the banks of the Kethtippecannunk a river in the heart of central Indiana.
  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act
    allows the president to give land west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian land within existing state borders
  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion
    was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears
    when some of the Indians were forced to leave their homes and go elsewhere.
  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    The Fugitive Slave Act
    required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    that slaves were not citizens
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    slaves in states that are rebelling are now free
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn
    a victory for the Indians and it helped bring more forces from the U.S to move them to there reservations.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment
    No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Plessy vs. Ferguson
    that the separation of blacks and whites does not violate the Constitution.
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    gives all men the right to vote
  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Battle of Wounded Knee
    A massacre of the Lakota men, women, and children.