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The Pequot Tribe was attacked by the English Puritans and their Native Allies. The massacre at Mystic was one of the many attacks on the tribe during the three-year war but this was the one the Pequot Tribe lost. -
The Scalp Act was when the British Governor Edward Cornwallis created an extirpation proclamation which included a bounty for male prisoners -
The 3/5th Compromise counted enslaved people as 3/5th of a person -
A new federal law made it illegal to import captive people from Africa -
The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought between American soldiers and Native Americans along the banks of Keth-tip-pe-can-nunk which is a river located in Central Indiana -
It drew a line from east to west along the 36th parallel dividing the nation into halves. Half free, half slave -
Authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian moments -
Between the years 1830 and 1850, roughly 100,000 American Indians living between Michigan, Louisiana, and Florida located themselves west after the U.S. government coerced treaties. They were treated horribly and an estimated 3,500 Creeks died in Alabama on their journey. -
Nat Turner and some of his followers went into his master's house and killed his entire family. His rebellion was one of the largest rebellions ever to take place. -
The act required that salves should be returned to their owners even if they are in a free state -
The US Supreme Court ratified slavery in some US territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in the United States, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. -
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863 as America approached its third year of civil war. -
The 13th Amendment states that slavery or involuntary servitude as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have duty convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States including formerly enslaved enslaved people and provides all citizens equal protected under the law. -
The 15th Amendment is the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied no matter what race they are. -
The battle was a victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne. The death of Custer and his troops became a rallying point for the US. -
A gun was discharged and soldiers opened fire. When the shooting was over, a lot of Lakota men, women and children were dead. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson was an important decision the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the US Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality.