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trail of tears
The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans and their enslaved African Americans[3] within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government.[ -
Spanish and French exploration
While the Spanish were focused much more on conquest and converting indigenous peoples to Christianity, the French more interested in creating trading outposts without large-scale settlement and conquest. Their different approaches had a lot to do with where each group explored and what they found there. -
jum crow laws
n practice, Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America and in some others, beginning in the 1870s. -
the five civilized tribes
The Dawes Act of February 8, 1887 marks a turning point in determining tribal citizenship. This Act developed a Federal commission tasked with creating Final Rolls for the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles -
tulsa race massacre
The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre, was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921
The event is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history.17 18 The attackers burned and destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the neighborhood at the time, one of the wealthiest black communities in the United States, colloquially known as "Black Wall Street.19