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The massacre at Mystic was the first defeat of the Peduot people in the Pequot war where 500 adults and children died by the English. -
The Nat Turner Rebellion was a Rebellion done by a man named Nat Turner and his fellow slaves against white people in Virginia. -
The Dred Scott Decision is where a man named Dred Scott got into a free state but was not given his citizenship so a ruling in the Supreme Court made it to where he could not get his freedom. -
The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all slaves shall be free but it was not yet set in law. -
The 13th Amendment was a huge thing to happen in the U.S.A. where slavery was abolished formally. -
The 13th Amendment freed the slaves and the 14th Amendment gave them rights or citizenship. -
The 15th Amendment gave all men the ability to vote not women yet. -
The Plessy vs. Ferguson was a case in the Supreme Court where they ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality.