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Massacre at Mystic
Pequots were slaughtered because the Puritans believed differently from them and believed that they should have the land that the Pequots occupied. Also, Puritans believed that the native americans were children of satan because the occupied the wilderness -
The Scalp Act
The Scalp Act legalized the taking of scalps for money from the government in order to get rid of the Delaware once and for all. This is the result of nearly 40 years of the Penn family lying to the Delawares and Shawnee's -
The 3/5ths Compromise
A compromise between Northern and Southern state delegates that 3/5ths of the slaves would be counted for the purpose of determining taxation and representation in the House Representatives -
The Fugitive Slave Act
it decreed that owners of enslaved people and their “agents” had the right to search for escapees within the borders of free states. The law also imposed a $500 penalty on any person who helped harbor or conceal escapees. Some abolitionists organized clandestine resistance groups and built complex networks of safe houses to aid enslaved people in their escape to the North. -
Slave Trade ends in the United States
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves stated no new slave could be imported into the US. Most smugglers would use American Flags on their ships so they were not caught. The Atlantic slave trade was not ended until the American Civil War, when American built and managed ships were prevented from operating. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
Native American tribes sought to oppose American expansion into the Old Northwest Territory. Led by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, the Native Americans began to assemble a force to oppose the settlers. -
The Missouri Compromise
It is federal legislation that balanced desires of northern states to prevent expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it. It said Missouri is a slave state and Maine is a free state and declared a policy of prohibiting slavery in the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands -
Indian Removal Act
Signed by President Andrew Jackson authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. -
Trail of Tears
This started with the Choctaw, the first of the major tribes to be re-located after the signing of the Indian Removal Act by President Jackson. The last was the Cherokee and they lost a lot of people there fore dubbing it the Trail of tears and death. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner led a rebellion of enslaved people. His action set off a massacre of up to 200 black people and a new wave of oppressive legislation that prohibited things to enslaved people such as education, movement, and assembly -
Dred Scott Decision
The US Supreme Court found that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom. It also found that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States -
Thirteenth Amendment
"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." This was the amendment that abolished slavery -
Fourteenth Amendment
The 14th Amendment was one of 3 Amendments passed during the Reconstitution Era to abolish slavery.
It granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States including enslaved persons. -
Fifteenth Amendment
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
The massacre of nearly 300 Lakota people by soldiers of US Army. The massacre was the climax of the U.S. Army’s late 19th-century efforts to repress the Plains Indians. It broke any organized resistance to reservation life and assimilation to white American culture, -
Plessy vs Ferguson
US Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation. Basically saying that they were separate but equal. All because Plessy refused to ride in the car for blacks. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It was the necessary legislation that gave slaves their opportunity to a free life in the United States. The oppression caused by servitude was lifted.
It also paved the way for the permanent abolition of slavery in the United States.