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A force from the Connecticut Colony under Captain John Mason and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River. They circled the fort and shot anyone who tried to escape it. -
There were so many minor attacks that the settlers on the frontier appealed to the Pennsylvania legislature, which set aside $60,000 for forts, Houser said. Instead, the money was set up as a fund to remove the Indians from the border. -
The Three-Fifths Compromise stated that three slaves from every five in a state would be included in the population census. -
a new Federal law made it illegal to import captive people from Africa into the United States. This date marks the end of the permanent, of the trans-Atlantic slave trade into our country. -
The defeat at Tippecanoe promised Tecumseh that he would ally his remaining forces with Great Britain during the War of 1812. They would play an integral role in the British military's success in the Great Lakes region in the coming years. -
This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. -
The president is to grant lands west of Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy and were killed. -
Michigan, Louisiana, and Florida moved west after the U.S. government coerced treaties or used the U.S. Army against those resisting. Many were treated brutally. An estimated 3,500 Creeks died in Alabama and on their westward journey. -
An enslaved preacher and self-styled prophet named Nat Turner launched the most deadly slave revolt in the history of the United States. -
The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves. -
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney read the majority opinion of the Court, which stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. -
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached the third year of the Civil War. -
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. -
Passed by Congress on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people. -
Passed by Congress on February 26, 1869, and ratified on February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote. -
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought along the ridges, steep bluffs, and ravines of the Little Bighorn River, in south-central Montana on June 25-26, 1876. -
On December 29, 1890, tragedy occurred as US Army troops fired upon Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation, leaving an estimated 200 people dead. -
Ferguson, a legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on May 18, 1896, by a seven-to-one majority (one justice did not participate), advanced the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws.