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The Massacre at Mystic took place in Connecticut. The people killed during this were the Pequot Tribe. -
The 3/5 Compromise basically stated that every 3 out 5, slaves would be counted depending on the population of the state. -
It was against the law to trade slaves for other goods in 1808. -
The Battle of Tippecanoe was a battle fought in Indiana between American forces led by then-Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory. -
The Missouri Compromise was the line between the free northern states and the slave southern states. -
It was an act to get Indians unsettled lands inside of the borders, so the president at the time Andrew Jackson gave them a grant for the land inside if they moved outside the borders. -
It's a trail that Andrew Jackson (president at the time) made over 125,000 natives walk all the way from wherever they were until they crossed the Mississippi River. Sometimes they'd walk through many states just to get to the river. It was also more than one tribe that had to make the walk. -
The Nat Turner Rebellion was a rebellion against enslaved people in Virginia. It was led by a woman named Nat Turner. Rebels killed over 60+ white people and it was one of the deadliest revolts in US History -
The Dred Scott Decision was from a Supreme Court case in 1846. The case was Dred Scott vs. Sandford and the decision was that slaves weren't real people. Also, the US Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black Africans, the Supreme Court said as they made their decision. -
If the slave were caught in the free states they'd be returned to their owners in the southern states forcefully. -
The Emancipation Proclamation is what Lincon said to the rebelling states, about the slaves. He only made this towards the rebelling states because he didn't want states in the union to join the rebels. -
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery. -
The 14th Amendment is when black men received equal protection under the laws. -
The 15th Amendment gave black men the right to vote. -
The Battle of Little Bighorn was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne tribes. -
This battle is also called the Battle of Wounded Knee Massacre because there were over 300 Latoka people killed by the US Military. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court Case was a landmark case because it set the separation but equal in motion. The decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution.