Discrimination timeline

  • Massacre at Mystic

    English colonist attacked and set fire to Pequot fort.
  • The Scalp Act

    colonial and early American legislation, or "scalp bounties," that paid money for Native American scalps, encouraging violence and warfare as a means of extermination and profit.
  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people to their enslavers, drawing authority from the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution
  • The 3/5ths Compromise

    The Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement made at the 1787 Constitutional Convention that counted three-fifths of the enslaved population for purposes of determining a state's total population, which in turn affected both congressional representation and direct taxation.
  • Slave Trade Ends in the United States

    when a new federal law prohibited the importation of enslaved people from Africa.
  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    a decisive American victory over a Native American confederacy led by Tecumseh's brother, Tenskwatawa, under the command of William Henry Harrison in Indiana Territory.
  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise was a 1820 federal law that resolved the growing tension over slavery by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
  • Trail of Tears

    The Trail of Tears refers to the series of forced displacements of Native American tribes, particularly the Cherokee, from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to designated Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, primarily in the 1830s.
  • Indian Removal Act

    authorized the president to negotiate treaties with Native American tribes to exchange their lands east of the Mississippi River for territory west of the Mississippi.
  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion

    This rebellion caused the death of 56 people
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision

    African Americans could not be citizens of the us at all
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    This was the freeing of enslaved people
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    This abolished slavery
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Granted citizens ship to all people
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    Cant not vote no matter your race
  • Battle of the Little Bighorn

    It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory.
  • The Wounded Knee Massacre

    The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army.
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Allowed racial segregation in public places