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British governor Edward Cornwallis created an extirpation proclamation, which included a bounty for male scalps or prisoners. -
three-fifths compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person -
Trans-Atlantic slave trade -
United States and the Native Confederacy of Indians fought -
balanced desires of northern states to prevent expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it -
Native Americans were relocated to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. -
The act of removing Indians from the US territory. -
“Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was an enslaved man who led a rebellion of slaves people -
The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, -
Denied the legality of black citizenship in America -
It was declared that "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
The amendment that abolished slavery -
Fourteenth Amendment gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States -
This Amendment granted African-American men the right to vote. -
a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne -
A massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers -
Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal -
A surprise attack on Mystic Fort that left 500 adults and children of the Pequot tribe dead