History

  • Massacre at Mystic

    Brutal attack during the Pequot war where English colonists and there native allies burned the main Pequot village
  • The Scalp Act

    refers to the practice of colonial and state governments offering bounties for Indigenous scalps
  • The 3/5ths Compromise

    an agreement that for the purposes of representation and taxation, three-fifths of a state's enslaved population would be counted toward its total population
  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    a decisive victory for U.S. forces led by William Henry Harrison against a confederation of Native Americans under Tecumseh and his brother
  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    requiring the capture and return of escaped enslaved people to their owners
  • Trail of tears

    The Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation of Native American tribes, primarily the Cherokee, from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States
  • Indian removal act

    forced relocation of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to territory west of the Mississippi River.
  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave uprising led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia
  • The Missouri Compromise

    admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, maintaining the balance of power between free and slave states in Congress
  • Dred Scott Decision

    declared African Americans were not citizens, could not sue in federal court, and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in U.S. territories, effectively invalidating the Missouri Compromise
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territory to be free
  • 13th Amendment

    officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States, except as punishment for a crime
  • Slave Trade Ends in the United States

    The slave trade ended in the United States with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment
  • 14th Amendment

    grants U.S. citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
  • 15th amendment

    prohibits states and the federal government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on their "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
  • Battle of the Little Bighorn

    a decisive victory for the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne over U.S. Army forces led by Lt
  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Tears refers to the forced relocation of Native American tribes, primarily the Cherokee, from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    "separate but equal" doctrine, which found racial segregation in public facilities to be constitutiona