Early American discrimination

By kmuse
  • The scalp act

    The scalp act

    series of laws that offered cash bounties for the scalps of native Americans
  • Massacre at mystic

    Massacre at mystic

    English colonists and their Native American allies attacked a Pequot village in Connecticut. They set the village on fire and killed hundreds of men, women, and children. This event made the tribes fall apart spiritually
  • Battle of tippecanoe

    Battle of tippecanoe

    battle led by William Harrison and a Native American crew led by ‘the prophet’, this made Harrison a national hero.
  • Indian removal act

    Indian removal act

    Andrew Jackson allowed an act to pass that forced native Americans to move from their homelands to the designated Indian territory west of the Mississippi River.
  • Trail of tears

    Trail of tears

    name given to the path the Indians had to take to get to their designated area that they were forced to relocate to. This trail led to thousands of deaths.
  • Nat turner rebellion

    Nat turner rebellion

    Nat turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia. The rebel slaves killed around 60 white men before the militia shut them down. This led to stricter slave laws and made life harder for enslaved and free black people.
  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott

    The Supreme Court ruled that an enslaved man, dred Scott, wasn’t a u.s citizen and couldn’t sue for his freedom. This made the missouri compromise unconstitutional.
  • Emancipation proclamation

    Emancipation proclamation

    Declared that all enslaved people shall be set free and forever be free, a presidential executive order by Abraham Lincoln.
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    Permanently abolished slavery and involuntary serving in the United States,except as punishment for crimes
  • 14th

    14th

    Gave citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to all people born in the United States
  • 15th

    15th

    This amendment gave African American men the right to vote by not letting states deny the right to vote.
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn

    George Custer attacked a big camp of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors in Montana. Custer and his men in the battle were killed in a victory for the Native American tribes.
  • Battle of wounded knee

    Battle of wounded knee

    final major armed confrontation between the Lakota Sioux and the U.S. Army
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Plessy vs Ferguson

    made the separate but equal principle,this legitimized the Jim Crow laws.