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the Pequot massacre and the Battle of Mystic Fort -
Anyone who brought in a male scalp above age of 12 would be given 150 pieces of eight, ($150), for females above 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. -
an agreement reached during the US Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population. -
a United States federal law that provided that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. -
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 admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
The Indian Removal Act authorized the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
part of a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government known as the Indian removal. -
a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia led by Nat Turner. -
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. -
a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that the United States Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship. -
a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln -
the Thirteenth Amendment was to abolish slavery in the United States. -
This amendment is granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.” -
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
The most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. -
he slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. The massacre was the climax of the U.S. Army's late 19th-century efforts to repress the Plains Indians. -
a United States Supreme Court case that ruled segregation was legal, as long as equal facilities were provided for both races