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Allied Puritan and Mohegan forces attack a Pequot village under the commands of English Captain, John Mason. They burned down homes, killing over 500 women, men, and children, The ones that were able to escape were also shot and killed. -
Anyone who brought in a male scalp above the age of 12 would be given 150 pieces of 8 ($150), for females above the age of 12 or males under the age of 12, would be paid $130. -
Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. -
A new Federal law made it illegal to import captive people from Africa into the United States. This date marks the end—the permanent, legal closure—of the trans-Atlantic slave trade into our country. -
Significant defeat for Tecumseh's American Indian Confederation. -
An Act to authorize 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. -
Law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands. -
Forced Native American Tribes. Approximately 60,000 Indigenous people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" (Cherokee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw were some) between 1830 and 1850 by the United States Government.
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Revolt that hardened proslavery attitudes among Southern whites and new oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves. The rebels killed 55 to 65 people, 51 of them being white. -
The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Dred Scott, Missouri slave, claimed his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S. Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen. -
Proclamation that declared, "That all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Abolished Slavery -
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States- including former enslaved people- and guaranteed all citizens, "equal protection of the laws." -
Granted African American men the right to vote. -
"Custer's Last Stand," The most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plain Indian War. -
The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. -
U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, "separate but equal."