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Massacre at Mystic
It was when a military group from the colony of Connecticut and they set fire to a Pequot village. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner led a slave rebellion that was the biggest in history and they went and killed 55 white people all over the course of one day in Southampton county. -
Dred Scott Decision
It was a court case that made it all the way to the Supreme Court and it was ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and thus they could not receive any protection from the United States. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It stated that all people held as slaves are now free. -
13th Amendment
It made it illegal to own slaves in any state or territory unless as a punishment. -
14th Amendment
No state shall make or enforce any law that goes against privileges and rights of citizens.