Discrimination Timeline Dec 9

By TylerWB
  • Massacre at Mystic

    Massacre at Mystic

    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.
  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner launched the most deadly slave revolt in the history of the United States.
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision

    the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens