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Massacre at Mystic
During the Pequot War, when the colonists under Captain John Mason and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River -
The Scalp Act
Governor Robert Morris enacted 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
All the states came to an agreement of what slaves should be counted as in the population. They decided each slave is 3/5ths of a person -
Slave Trade Ends in the United States
United States passes legislation banning the slave trade -
Battle of Tippecanoe
The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought on November 7, 1811, in Battle Ground, Indiana between American forces led by then Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and Native American forces that resulted in an American victory. -
Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands. -
Trail of Tears
The result of the Indian Removal Act where the Native tribes could either join White culture or move west of the Missisippi About 2,500–6,000 died along the trail of tears. A large percentage of those being Cherokee. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
This rebellion lasted roughly 3 days from August 21st to August 23rd of 1831. Basically Nat Turner's Rebellion was a rebellion of Virginian slaves that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. The rebelling slaves killed between 55 and 65 people, 51 of which were white. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Passed on September 18, 1850 by Congress, The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. 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. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott v. Sandford case was the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person to his freedom. The decision argued that, as someone's property, Scott was not a citizen and could not sue in a federal court. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, during the Civil War. -
13th Amendment
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. -
14th Amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. -
15th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. It took place on June 25 1876 and only lasted about a day. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Battle of Wounded Knee aka Wounded Knee Massacre was the slaughter of approximately 300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The massacre was the peak of the U.S. Army's late 19th-century efforts to repress the Plains Indians. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
The Plessy v. Ferguson case was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal