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Massacre At Mystic
the Puritans and their Indian allies marched on the Pequot village at Mystic, slaughtering all but a handful of its inhabitants. The massacre was the first documented use of “total war” against American Indians, meaning the English force slaughtered all Pequot they came in contact with, making no distinction between armed warriors or helpless women and children -
The Scalp Act
Anyone who brought in a male scalp above age of 12 would be given 150 pieces of eight, ($150), for females above age of 12 or males under the age of 12, they would be paid $130. The act turned all the tribes against the Pennsylvania legislature -
The 3/5ths Compromise
three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. The three-fifths compromise had a major impact on U.S. politics for decades to come. It allowed pro-slavery states to have a disproportionate influence on the presidency, the Supreme Court, and other positions of power. -
Slave Trade Ends in the United States
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 is a United States federal law that provided that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. It took effect on January 1, 1808. The biggest impact was that for the first time, ending slavery became a goal of the Union in the bloody civil war with the Confederacy. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
This battle became known as the Battle of Tippecanoe, which occurred north of present-day West Lafayette, Indiana. The American army drove off the American Indians and burned Prophetstown to the ground. Most natives no longer believed in the Prophet. Many returned to their own villages after the defeat. The U.S. victory broke Tecumseh's power and ended the threat of an Indian confederation. -
The Missouri Compromise
Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It maintained a delicate balance between free and slave states. -
Indian Removal Act
the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. -
Trail of Tears
the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. The rebels killed between 55 and 65 people, at least 51 of which were White. Nat Turner destroyed the white Southern myth that slaves were actually happy with their lives or too docile to undertake a violent rebellion. His revolt hardened proslavery attitudes among Southern whites and led to new oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves -
The Fugitive Slave Act
That provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory. The passage of the Fugitive Slave Acts resulted in many free blacks being illegally captured and sold into slavery -
Dred Scott Decision
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 most important slavery-related decision in the United States Supreme Court's history. The purpose was to balance the Congressional strength of the two factions by making sure an equal number of slave and free states were admitted to the Union. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." The Emancipation Proclamation was the necessary legislation that gave slaves their opportunity to free life in the United States. It was the culminating act of many arguments and papers by abolitionists. It was an endearing proclamation by President Lincoln to free slaves. -
13th Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
The 13th Amendment was necessary because the Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln in January of 1863, did not end slavery entirely; those enslaved in border states had not been freed. The 13th Amendment forever abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories. -
14th Amendment
It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
This was important because it ensured that the freed slaves were officially U.S. citizens and were awarded the rights given to U.S. citizens by the Constitution. -
15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
It effectively enfranchised African American men while denying the right to vote to women of all colors. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River.
The Battle of the Little Bighorn is important because it proved to be the height of Native American power during the 19th century. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army. The massacre was the climax of the U.S. Army's late 19th-century efforts to repress the Plains Indians, -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". Plessy v. Ferguson was important because it essentially established the constitutionality of racial segregation.