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This was the massacre of the Pequot tribe. -
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. -
Three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. -
A new Federal law made it illegal to import captive people from Africa into the United States. -
Victory of a seasoned U.S. expeditionary force under Major General William Henry Harrison over Shawnee Indians led by Tecumseh's brother Laulewasikau (Tenskwatawa), known as the Prophet. -
An Act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories. -
The forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast. -
Authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
An enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people. -
The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. -
The United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. -
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
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. -
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. -
Granted African American men the right to vote. -
Marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. -
The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. -
A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.