Discrimination Timeline

  • Massacre at Mystic

    Massacre at Mystic
    this was the English's first defeat of the Pequot people in the Pequot War, it was a 3 year war instigated by the Puritans to seize the tribe's land.
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  • The Scalp Act

    The Scalp Act
    Anyone who brought in a male scalp that was older than 12 would paid. For females above 12 or males under 12, they would be paid less.
  • The 3/5ths Compromise

    The 3/5ths Compromise
    Slaves counted for 3/5 of a person when counting the population for tax.
  • Slave Trade Ends in the United States

    Slave Trade Ends in the United States
    This is when the United States of America decided to stop participating in the slave trade.
  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    Battle of Tippecanoe
    The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought between the American forces and Native American warriors
  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non slave state, this set a precedent, for every free state there must be a slave state.
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act
    Signed by Andrew Jackson, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears
    Native Americans were walked to their new home, many died along the way.
  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion
    Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831.
  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    The Fugitive Slave Act
    this provided for the return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or a federal territory.
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    Dred Scott v. Sandford did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution gave American citizens
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
  • 13th amendment

    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

    14th Amendment
    No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment
    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."
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn
    The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne. The death of Custer and his troops became a rallying point for the United States to increase their efforts to force native peoples onto reservation lands.
  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Battle of Wounded Knee
    Wounded Knee Massacre, 300 Lakota Indians slaughtered by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota.
  • Plessy V Ferguson

    Plessy V Ferguson
    Plessy v. Ferguson was a U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for people of color were equal in quality to those of white people, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".