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Massacre at Mystic
English settlers tried to completly destroy the pequate Indians at the village at Mystic. This shows the Native Americans that peace with white settlers was impossible. -
The Scalp Act
This act legalized of Indian scalps for money. This act was meant to destroy the Deleware Indian tribe. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
near present-day Lafayette, Indiana between United States forces led by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory -
Indian Removal Act
during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
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The Trail of Tears
Cheroke Indians are forced to move from Geroriga to Arkansas by President Andrew Jackson. Thousands of native Americans died in the forced move. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dres Scott's master moved him to a free state and then back to a slave state. Dred Scott sued, saying that since he had lived in a free state he was a free man. The Supreme Court says Dred Scott can't sue, because slaves aren't citizens of the United States. -
Emancipation Proclomation
Proclomation act that freed slaves in the rebelling states. this was the first step to ending slavery in the United States. -
13th admendment
declared 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." -
14th admendment
granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
15th admendment
granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that 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." -
Battle of Little Big Horn
near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, pitted federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. -
Plessy vs Ferguson
was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
