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Massacre at Mystic
also known as the Pequot massacre and the Battle of Mystic Fort took place during the Pequot War, when Connecticut colonists under Captain John Mason set fire to the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River -
The Scalp Act
Anyone who brought in a male scalp above the age of 12 would be given 150 pieces of eight, ($150), for females above the age of 12 or males under the age of 12, they would be paid $130. The act turned all the tribes against the Pennsylvania legislature. -
The 3/5ths Compromise
compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. -
Slave Trade Ends in the United States
enslaved people continued to be bought and sold within the Southern states, but in January 1808 the legal flow of new Africans into this country stopped forever. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
the victory of a seasoned U.S. expeditionary force under Major General William Henry Harrison over Shawnee Indians led by Tecumseh's brother Laulewasikau known as the Prophet -
The Missouri Compromise
was United States federal legislation that balanced the desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it -
Indian Removal Act
signed into law by President Andrew Jackson authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders -
Nat Turner Rebellion
an enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people. His action set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people -
Trail of Tears
a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Indigenous people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. As part of the Indian removal -
The Fugitive Slave Act
required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. -
Dred Scott Decision
A supreme court case that decided African Americans were not citizens and so they were not protected under the constitution -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
13th Amendment
abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime -
14th Amendment
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws -
15th Amendment
granted African American men the right to vote. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
also called Custer's Last Stand, marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War -
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine