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Massacre at Mystic
The Massacre at Mystic was a pre-dawn attack against the Pequot. What is so important is the Puritans attacked the Pequot tribe and killed 500 adults and children members of that tribe just to get some land. -
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. Why this is important because later on, it made the Indians go against the Pennsylvania legislature. -
The 3/5ths Compromise
Every enslaved American would be counted as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation purposes. This agreement gave the Southern states more electoral power than they would have had if the enslaved population had been ignored entirely. -
Slave Trade Ends in the United States
This is when we stopped getting imports from Africa for slaves. The significance is there is no more slavery within the United States. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
It was the end of a Native American confederacy. The defeat at Tippecanoe prompted Tecumseh to ally his remaining forces with Great Britain during the War of 1812, where they would play an integral role in the British military success in the Great Lakes region in the coming years. -
The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was where Missouri wanted to be a slave state but they would throw off the balance of the slave states and non-slave states. So what happened is Maine switched to a non-slave state to make it equal. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. Why this is significant because this is what leads to the Trail of Tears. -
Trail of Tears
What this is the Indians were forced to move Westward by Andrew Jaxson. What made them move Westward was the Indian removal act. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
The Nat Turner rebellion is a slave rebellion to try to gain freedom. This is important because it is one of the bloodiest and the most effective rebellion in United States history. This is also important because this rebellion helped ignite the civil war. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
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. Why this is significant is it stripped free slaves of their freedom. -
Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott Decision was a court case where the United States territories denied the legality of black citizenship in America. why this is important because this court case made it to that they could be citizens of the U.S. -
Emancipation Proclamation
What this did was made it gave slaves the opportunity to live a free life in the United States. Why Abraham did this because it created more moral force on the Union. -
13th Amendment
The thirteenth amendment gave slaves the right to freedom. Why this is important because there were no more slaves in the United States. -
14th Amendment
The 14th amendment said that all people born within the United States was a citizen of the United States. This amendment gave equal rights. -
15th Amendment
The 15th amendment gave African men the right to vote. Why this is important because it leads to other protests. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of the 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. The demise of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee Massacre, (December 29, 1890), the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. The significance is it marked the end of Indian resistance to the encroachments of white settlers. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Plessy vs. Ferguson was a court case. Why it was important is that it upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.