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Early American Discrimination
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Massacre at Mystic
enraged the settlers that the warriors would kill civilians and led to increased support for the Pequot War among colonists. -
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 3/5ths Compromise
every enslaved American would be counted as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation purposes -
Slave Trade Ends in the United States
Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million captured men, women, and children were put on ships in Africa, and 10.7 million arrived in the Americas. The Atlantic Slave Trade was likely the most costly in human life of all long-distance global migrations. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
victory of a seasoned U.S. expeditionary force under Major General William Henry Harrison over Shawnee Indians led by Tecumseh's brother Laulewasikau (Tenskwatawa), known as the Prophet. -
the missouri compromise
a law that tried to address growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery. -
indian removal act
authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
hardened proslavery attitudes among Southern whites and led to new oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves. -
the fugitive slave act
permitted for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state and fled into another -
Trial of tears
the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast. -
Dred Scott Decision
upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. -
Emancipation Proclamation
declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
13th amendment
13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. -
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
“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 the Little Bighorn
marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.