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1492
The Scalp Act
in 1492 a governor made the scalp act meaning that anyone who brought him a Micmac scalp could get $150 -
Massacre at Mystic
The first Defeat of the Pequot people by the English in the Pequot war -
The 3/5ths Compromise
The The 3/5ths Compromise was every 5 slaves that would count for 3 white men -
Slave Trade Ends in the United States
In 1800 congress passed the bill to stop the moving of slaves to Africa to America and if you were caught you were to be jailed and fined -
Battle of Tippecanoe
The Battle of Tippecanoe prompted Tecumseh to help the north in the civil war -
The Missouri Compromise
This balaced the power of slave states and free states making Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state -
Trail of Tears
this was when the natives were forced out of their homeland and forced to move west -
Indian Removal Act
In 1830 the president Allowed to give land to Native tribes across the Mississippi river if they gave up their homeland -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner was an enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The The Fugitive Slave Act was even if you were free you were required to go back to your owner -
Emancipation Proclamation
Declared that all slaves in all states be freed -
13th Amendment
Slavery is outright banned by the constitution -
14th Amendment
Equal Protection under all laws -
15th Amendment
Gave african american men the right to vote -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The battle started because the natives didnt want to be forced out of their home to move to reservation plants. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
A gun accidentally fired and witch made the white soldiers start firing at the natives causing hundreds of men, women , and children dead -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
allowed separate things for whites and blacks -
Dred Scott Decision
Upheald Slavery in the US and denied legal black citizenship in America