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massacre at mystic
A pre-dawn attack on Mystic Fort that left 500 adults and children of the Pequot tribe dead -
The Scalp Act
In response to repeated massacres of British families by the French and their native allies during King George's War -
The 3/5ths Compromise
Ultimately, the delegates who objected to enslavement as an institution ignored their moral qualms in favor of unifying the states, thus leading to the creation of the three-fifths compromise -
Slave Trade Ends in the United States
The Slave Treade Ended byt The Civil War. The war was a very brutal, that lasted from 1861-1865. It left the south economically devastated, and resulted in the criminalization of slavery in the United States. Confederate General Lee surrendered to Union General Grant in the spring of 1865 officially ending the war. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
Britain hoped that the natives could lock the United States into a war of attrition that would cost men, money, and resources -
The Missouri Compromise
The cause of the Missouri compromise was to allow slavery in Missouri while simultaneously admitting Maine as a free state. -
Indian Removal Act
The reason for this forced removal was to make a westward expansion for Americans easier. -
Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nathanial Turner was an enslaved man who led a rebellion against enslaved people on August 21, 1831. Nathanial Turner set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people and a new wave of cruel laws forbid the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was a Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters. -
Dred Scott Decision
The cases were allowed because a Missouri statute stated that any person, black or white, held in wrongful enslavement could sue for freedom. The petition that Dred Scott signed shows the reason he felt he was entitled to freedom. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
13th Amendment
The 13th amendment is Neither slavery nor forced slavery, 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
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment aloud African-American men to have the right to vote. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn happened because the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie, in which the U.S. government guaranteed to the Lakota and Dakota as well as the Arapaho exclusive possession of the Dakota Territory west of the Missouri River, had been broken. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
The massacre at Wounded Knee was a reaction to a religious movement that gave fleeting hope to Plains Indians whose lives had been upended by white settlement. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial quarantine under the “separate but equal” doctrine.