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The Massacre at Mystic was the first defeat of the Pequot people by the English in the Pequot War, a three-year war -
Anyone who bought in a male scalp above the age of 12 would be given 150 pieces of eight or the equivalent of $150. For females above the age of 12 or males under the age of 12, they would be paid $130 -
It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation -
AN act of Congress passed in 1800 made it illegal for Americans to engage in the slave trade between nations, and gave the U.S. authorities the right to seize slave ships which were caught transporting slaves and confiscate their cargo. -
A battle fought between the American forces under the command of Willian Henry Harrison, and Native American warriors under the leadership of Tenskwatawa -
This drew a line from east to west along the 36th parallel dividing the nation into competing halves -
An act authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for the Indian lands within existing state borders -
Between 1830 and 1850, about 100,000 American indians living between Michigan, Louisiana, and Florida moved west after the U.S. government coerced treaties or used the U.S. Army against those resisting -
An enslaved man led a rebellion of enslaved people. His action set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people -
The fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was part of the Compromise of 1850. The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state -
The Dread Scott v. Stanford was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that held the Constitution did not extend the American citizenship to people of black African decent, and thus they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens. -
The Emancipation Proclamation, was a presidential proc lamation and executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln -
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S. -
The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the U.S." -
The 15th Amendment granted African AMerican men the right to vote -
A battle where some united Native Americans won against General Vuster's 7th cavalry -
It is one of the final chapters of America's long Indian wars, the U.S. Calvary kills 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota -
A U.S. landmark where the Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation law did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality