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Massacre at Mystic
They shot anyone who tried to escape the wooden palisade fortress and killed most of the village. About 400-700 were killed in the attack, The English had brought the Native Americans along with allies with Mohegan and Narragansett tribes and the Pequot tribe of modern-day Connecticut. It was all over the Pequot's traditional land. -
The 3/5ths Compromise
It determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation. it was made to ensure that the southern slave states entered the union created by the United States Constitution of 1787. Slavery was legal a non-proportional representation in the national government in the southern. -
Slave Trade Ends in the United States
It wasn't an crucial an element as the northern economy. The last trade in America was The Clotilda, the last American slave ship. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
Tippecanoe was important because it caused Tecumseh to fully align with Great Britain. This alliance, in part, is why the United States declared war on Britain the following year. The American forces under the command of William Henry Harrison, and Native American warriors under the leadership of Tenskwatawa, were involved and was commonly referred to as “The Prophet.” The food supplies stored for the winter was all destroyed. -
The Missouri Compromise
This Missouri Compromise drew a line from east to west along the 36th parallel, dividing the nation into competing halves—half free, half slave. The next day, pro-slavery advocates in the House moved to reconsider the vote. It outlawed slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory. -
Indian Removal Act
The Act established a process whereby the President could grant land west of the Mississippi River to Indian tribes that agreed to give up their homelands. They Forced nearly 100,000 Native Americans to relocate from their ancestral homelands east of the Mississippi River to “Indian Territory” in what is now Oklahoma. The Indian tribes removed was the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole -
Nat Turner Rebellion
The slave rebellion occurred in Southampton County, Virginia, on August 1831. It played an important role in the development of antebellum slave society. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves. They try to escape to the areas where slavery was banned. -
Dred Scott Decision
A decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. -
The Scalp Act
Anyone who brought in a male scalp above the age of 12 would be given 150 pieces of eight or the equivalent of $150. For females above the age of 12 or males under the age of 12, they would be paid $130. it was a challenge act to their enemies. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." As it did not free all slaves. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. -
13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "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." In short term to abolished slavery. -
14th Amendment
Gave citizenship to everyone born in the U.S. It was a way to give equal protection. It was created to grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,” thereby granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people. -
15th Amendment
It was the grant African American men the right to vote. This was to ban all restrictions on the right to vote regarding ethnicity and prior slave status. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne. The dead were Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and every member of his immediate command. The Battle of the Little Bighorn happened because the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
It was a reaction to a religious movement that gave fleeting hope to Plains Indians whose lives had been upended by white settlement. the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota aka The US Troops Mobilized Against Ghost Dancers. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Is advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws. Since segregation laws did not provide equal protections or liberties to non-whites, the ruling was not consistent with the 14th Amendment. -
Trail of Tears
The Cherokees' forced march to Oklahoma, during which thousands died, became known as the Trail of Tears.” The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward. 6,000 men, women, and children were killed.