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Massacre at Mystic
It was an attack on the Pequot tribe on Mystic Fort, leaving countless people deceased. This is important to discrimination because it represents letting people, and their tribes, be and displaying that it is not right to enslave people or abuse them only because of their different races and beliefs. -
The Scalp Act
This was an act that if you brought in an older, native American male's scalp you could make up to one hundred pounds, and fifty for a female's. This is important to discrimination because we must remember how important it is to allow people of different races to have their own hairstyles. -
3/5ths Compromise
Three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining taxation and representation. This contributes to discrimination as being more inclusive and considering African Americans as American citizens. -
Slave Trades Ends in the United States
The allowance of African slaves to be traded and sent away to be traded from the United States ends. This is obviously important to discrimination, being one step closer to ending it and helping to minimize the issue. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
William Henry Harrison led his troops in Tippecanoe and won a battle he started against the native Americans. This relates to the significance of remembering discrimination because again, like many others, a white man came in and tortured and burnt down the homes of innocent Native Americans due to disagreeing with their ways of life. -
The Missouri Compromise
This was the coming together of the North's desire to stop slavery from spreading, and the South's whim to increase it. This relates to early American discrimination by increasing the greatness and potential for ending slavery on the North's part, but it also contributes to discrimination because of the South's craving to keep slavery alive, and growing, black men and women being nothing but tools to them. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
It was a rebellion of slaves from Virginia led by Nat Turner, and they killed fifty-one white people. This is important to discrimination because it represents that violence will only lead to more violence and if cruelty towards the slaves never happened than neither would this if discrimination was avoided. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The act that all slaves be returned to their owners, whether they were in a free state or not. This was evidently fulfilling discrimination, again treating black people like farm equipment and not humans with their own lives and trajectory. -
Dred Scott Decision
This was the decision determined by the U.S Court that black people are not American citizens. This is one of the key events to discrimination because it proves how America has evolved, what it means, and how important it is to know all men and women are equal. -
Emancipation Proclamation
This was a document issued by Abraham Lincoln to free all slaves in the confederate states. This is important to discrimination because it is the beginning of major changes and the evolution of equality between the races. -
13th Amendment
This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary slavery. This is evidently important regarding discrimination because it is the first amendment to act for black people and not against them, bettering things from here. -
14th Amendment
It extended rights to formerly enslaved African Americans. This was critical to discrimination, another 13th amendment that will lead to ending discrimination, or at least working on that more efficiently. -
15th Amendment
This granted black men the right to vote. This was important to discrimination because it lessened discrimination as a whole. Black men may now decide the fate of the country just as white men. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
Custer and his men went to murder several native Americans but Custer was outnumbered and foolish in his tactics and he and his men lost and were killed, enraging several white Americans at the time. This relates to the importance of discrimination because Custer desired to go in and murder and torture innocent people all because of their different ways of living. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
The United States Army went in and brutally murdered over three-hundred Lakota people. This si one of the most disgusting examples of discrimination and is important to remember because so many innocent lives were terrorized to death, including stepping on the skulls of children because the army refused to "waste" bullets on them. -
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
This was what began the "separate but equal" laws as a result of the court ruling that segregation does not violate the declarations stated in the Constitution. This is important to discrimination because it still demonstrates the issues at that time with segregation and racial inequality despite several new acts benefiting African American men.