Discrimination timeline

  • Massacre at Mystic

    Massacre at Mystic

    English colonists and other allies set fire to a Pequot village near the Mystic River, killing hundreds of men, women, and children.
  • the scalp act

    the scalp act

    Anyone who brought in a male scalp above age of 12 would be given 150 pieces of eight or given $150. For females above age of 12 or males under the age of 12, they would be paid $130.
  • The 3/5ths compromise

    The 3/5ths compromise

    made blacks to be considered 3/5ths of a person, for representation in congress, and for the taxation for northern and southern states.
  • the battle of tippecanoe

    the battle of tippecanoe

    Fought to resist increasing white expansion into Native lands, the battle destroyed the Shawnee settlement of Prophetstown and weakened Tecumseh's Native resistance movement
  • Indian removal act

    Indian removal act

    This act authorized the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi River in exchange for Native American lands within existing state borders
  • The Indian removal act

    The Indian removal act

    The displacement of 60,000 people from the five civilized tribes to Oklahoma
  • Nat turner rebellion

    Nat turner rebellion

    uprising of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision

    Stated anyone who was African descent free or not could not vote or sue.
  • emancipation proclamation

    emancipation proclamation

    Executive issued by Abraham Lincoln that declared that enslaved people in the rebellious Confederate states were free.
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    Abolished slavery throughout the United States
  • slave trade ends in the United States

    slave trade ends in the United States

    Made the importation of slaves illegal in the United States but not freeing the slaves still in the states.
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    The amendment granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, including enslaved people, and equal protection under the law for all citizens.
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    It gave African American men the right to vote by Un allowing states from denying their right based on race, color, or previous conditions
  • the battle of little big horn

    the battle of little big horn

    a major conflict in the Great Sioux War where many tribes, led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, defeated Lieutenant Colonel George Custer's Cavalry in southeastern Montana.
  • the battle of wounded knee

    the battle of wounded knee

    where US soldiers try to disarm Lakota Sioux, leading to a violent battle where 300 Lakota die including women and children and 25 soldiers die aswell.
  • plessy vs. Ferguson

    plessy vs. Ferguson

    was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the places for each race were equal in quality