Early American discrimination

  • Massacre at mystic

    Massacre at mystic

    it was a battle that took place between the Puritans and the pequot tribe. the battle happened because the puritans thought the pequots were hostile and the puritans wanted the land
  • The Scalp Act

    The Scalp Act

    cutting or tearing a part of the human scalp and if you were to bring a part of the scalp of a male one the age of 12. you would get $150 for it
  • The 3/5ths Compromise

    The 3/5ths Compromise

    slaveholding states were able to count slaves to determine their numbers of senators.
  • Slave Trade Ends in the United States

    Slave Trade Ends in the United States

    the ''act prohibiting the importation of slaves''
  • Battle of Tippecanoe

    Battle of Tippecanoe

    a battle between the American soldiers and the native Americans. incompatible ways of understanding and living on the land and religious views made co-existence improbable.
  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise

    an act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory. the union on an equal footing with the original state.
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act

    this act authorizes the president to grant unsettled lands west of Mississippi in exchange for Indian land with existing state border.
  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion

    an enslaved preacher and self styled prophet which leads to the deadliest revolt of enslaved people
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears

    the trail of tears was an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the ''five civilized tribes''
  • The Fugitive Slave Act

    The Fugitive Slave Act

    it required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if their in a free state
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision

    upheld slavery in the United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America. declared the Missouri compromise to be unconstitutional.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    the proclamation was declared "that all persons held as slaves" with in the Rebellious states "are and henceforward shall be free"
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    abolished slavery in the United States
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    granted citizenship to all people that was born or naturalized in the United States including formally enslaved people and provided all the citizens with equal protection under the law
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    granted African American men the right to vote
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn

    a battle between the federal troops and the northern plains Indians
  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Battle of Wounded Knee

    was the deadliest mass shooting in American history.
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Plessy vs. Ferguson

    a landmark U.S supreme court decision ruling that racial segregation laws