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The Massacre at Mystic was a violent attack on the Pequot native tribe by the Connecticut colonists. The natives village was set on fire an 400-700 Pequots were killed, nearly wiping out their entire tribe. -
The scalp acts were primarily in the 17th and 19th centuries in North America, they offered a sum of money for the scalps of Native Americans, this incentivized the killing of Indigenous people. -
This act refers to a pair of federal laws in both 1753 and 1850 that permitted the capture and forced return of escaped slaves. -
A compromise made in the 1787 constitutional convention that determined 3/5 of a states enslaved population would be counted during the calculation of the population for the representation in the house of reps. -
The importation of slaves from Africa was prohibited in the United States. -
A conflict in modern day Indiana led by William Henry Harrison that defeated the native Americans and damaged Tecumseh's efforts to unite the Natives against American expansion. -
A law the temporarily got ride of the conflict for the expansion of slavery and to make Missouri a slave state, and Maine a free state. -
U.S law signed by president Andrew Jackson that authorized the negotiation of removal treaties of native Americans living on the east of the Mississippi River. -
The Nat Turner Rebellion was a 36 hour protest led by an African American preacher named Nat turner. This rebel led to the death of approximately 55 white people before local authorities were able to put a stop to it. -
The forced removal of Native American tribe, primarily the Cherokee from their home lands to designated Indian territory in the west, most of these lands were in Oklahoma. -
Dred Scott along with his wife Harriet were slaves that lived in Missouri and were taken to free territory, they tried to sue for their freedom in 1846 but were ultimately told that the constitution did not apply to black people and that they were “property” in 1857. -
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order given by president Lincoln that all slaves in rebelling confederate states were free. -
The 13th amendment was what officially abolished slavery in all U.S states. -
The 14th amendment gave all people born and naturalized in the U.S citizenship and equal protection. -
The 15th amendment gave all black men the right to vote, although poll taxes and literacy tests were established to try to deter black men from voting. -
A bottle fought on Montana territory where the Sioux and the 7th Calvary regiment led by general Custer, this battle resulted in the death of Custer and all his men which is now recognized as a huge win for the Natives. -
The wounded knee massacre ended in 300 deaths of the Lakota by the hands of the U.S military -
The Plessy vs. Ferguson case was the Supreme Court decision that enacted the separate but equal rights, this decision cemented the Jim Crow laws.