-
Tried to comepletely destroy Pequot Indiands at the village of Mystic. This shows Native Americans that peace with white settlers was impossible.
-
The act legalized the taking of Indian scalps for money. This act was meant to destroy the Delaware Indian tribe.
-
Some southern congressmen joined with the north in voting to abolish the African slave trade.
-
This war was fought between U.S. forces & Native American warriors.
-
This was authroized by the president to negotiate with soutehrn Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands.
-
Slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia. There were 55-65 slaves killed during this and that's the highest number of fatalities caussed by any slave uprising in the American South.
-
Cherokee Indians are forced to move from Georgia to Arkansas by President Andrew Jackson. Thousands of Native Americans died in the forced move.
-
Dred Scott's master moved him to a free state and then back to a slave state. Dred Scott sued, saying that since he had lived in a free state, he was a free man. The Supreme Court says that Dred Scott can't sue because slaves aren't citizens of the United States.
-
Presidential act that freed slaves in the rebelling states. This was the first step to ending slavery in the United Sates.
-
The 13th Ammendment was passed on Janurary 31, 1865 and ratified December 6, 1865. The 13th Ammendment abolished slavery in the United States.
-
This ammendment granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States. That included former slaves who were recently freed.
-
The 15th Ammendment was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869 and ratified on February 3, 1870. It granted African American men the right to vote.
-
It took place between the U.S. cavalry and the Northern Tribe Indians. It was a waged war against the whites because they refused to stay off tribal lands in the Black Hills.
-
This was a battle between the U.S. military and Lakota Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek. It resulted in the death of about 300 men, woman, and children.
-
There was a law that required passenger trains operating within the state to provide "seperate but equal" accomidations.
