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The word slave came from the slavonic tribes and the reasons for enslavement is due to conquest, war and debt.
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Massachusetts was the first colony to legalize slavery
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In 1667 Virginia enacted a law that changing the status of a slaves religion would not free a slave.
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Virgina Slave Codes was a law making slavery permanent. Blacks were punished more harshly and more rights and opportunities were given to poor white people due to the fact blacks were now lower than they were.
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Question why blacks dont have natural rights.
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Decleration of Independence was created establishing equality and natural rights on mankind. Yet the problem was our nation was built on freedom yet we still have slaves.
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Denied native americans as U.S Citizens they were considered Domestic Foreigners, they could not be citizens because they were not white.
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Indians begin to see themselves as sharing common identity, multiple tribes band together under Tecumseh for pan-indian movement.
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Missionaries began changing Native Tribes religions to theirs.
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The president could employ people to teach agriculture and basic school skills to Native Americans.
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A Native man Sequoyah completed the Cherokee alphabet which has 86 letters each for one sound. People could learn the alphabet in one day it was so simple.
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Indian Removal Act initiates trail of tears for five civilized tribes. Forcibly they relocated to the east of Mississippi; yet many died before and durring their journey.
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Fights between indians and whites. From small rebellions to large massacres
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Government assigned all tribes to their own reservations dividing them up.
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Recommended all plains tribes move to two large reservations.
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In Colorado drunk miners massacured a peaceful camp. 133 people died. (105 women and children)
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Virginia passed two acts in 1682 that combined Native Americans and Africans into one category classified as "negroes and other slaves"
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Slaves were classified as property in 1705 by a law passed in Virginia. Slaves could be used as settlements of debt, even slaves who had been freed.
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Sioux in Minnesota rebelled
