Early American Discrimination Timeline

By RyanHiler

  • Massacre at Mystic

    English and colonial forces, led by Captain John Mason, with their Narragansett and Mohegan allies, attacked and set fire to a Pequot fort near the Mystic River in present-day Connecticut.
  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave uprising led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision

    declared enslaved and free African Americans could not be citizens, denying them the right to sue in federal court.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    a presidential executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, that declared enslaved people in the Confederate states in rebellion against the Union to be free.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States and its territories, with the exception of punishment for a crime.