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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 Pequot Massacre (or the “Mystic Massacre”) was the first defeat of the Pequot people by the English in the Pequot War, a three-year war instigated by the Puritans to seize the tribe’s traditional land. it’s important to Early American Discrimination because it was the first defeat of the Pequot people by the English in the Pequot War -
The Scalp Act
In 1756, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Robert Morris enacted the Scalp Act. -
The 3/5ths Compromise
The Three-Fifths Compromise greatly augmented southern political power. In the Continental Congress, where each state had an equal vote, there were only five states in which slavery was a major institution. Thus the southern states had about 38 percent of the seats in the Continental Congress. It's important to Early American Discrimination because It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation -
Slave Trade Ends in the United States
It's important because more slaves would have led to the United States becoming a slave empire in a way in which many Southerners wanted -
Battle of Tippecanoe
The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought between American soldiers and Native American warriors along the banks of the Keth-tip-pe-can-nunk, a river in the heart of central Indiana. is important because it conflict at Tippecanoe was the primary catalyst for the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States -
The Missouri Compromise
the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories. it's important because outlawed slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders, It's important because it freed more than 25 million acres of fertile, lucrative farmland to mostly white settlement in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. -
Trail of Tears
the Trail of Tears (1831 to 1850) was the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast. Land grabs threatened tribes throughout the South and Southeast in the early 1800s. It's important because commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner believed he was called by God to deliver his people from slavery, It's important because it led to the passage of a series of new laws -
Dred Scott Decision
Missouri's Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857. In its 1857 decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. It's important because the U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." The Emancipation Proclamation was the necessary legislation that gave slaves the opportunity to free life in the United States. -
13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, 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. It's important because it ended slavery and began the long-term goal of achieving equality for all Americans. -
14th Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,” extending the provisions of. The 14th Amendment was necessary to make clear that Black people, as well as anyone born in the country or naturalized, were American citizens. -
15th Amendment
the 15th Amendment granted African-American men the right to vote -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Custer's Last Stand, marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
A gun was discharged and soldiers opened fire. When the shooting stopped, hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children were dead. It's important because The massacre site became a place of remembrance for Native Americans, and decades later Wounded Knee would be a rallying cry in struggles for Native American rights. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson established the constitutionality of laws mandating separate but equal public accommodations for African Americans and whites. It's important because the ruling provided legal justification for segregation on trains and buses and in public facilities such as hotels, theaters, and schools.