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During the Pequot War, when a force from the Connecticut Colony under Captain John Mason and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River. -
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. -
It determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation. -
The legal flow of new Africans into this country stopped forever. -
Deemed an American victory, the battle had far-lasting implications with Native -
Drew a line from east to west along the 36th parallel, dividing the nation into competing halves—half free, half slave. -
which forcibly removed thousands of American Indians from their homelands in the southeastern United States. They were relocated to an area of land then known as Indian Territory or the state of Oklahoma. -
Authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
An enslaved preacher and self-styled prophet named Nat Turner launched the most deadly slave revolt in the history of the United States. -
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, and denied the legality of black citizenship in America. -
After three years of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln stated that this was not a war for us; it was a fight to abolish slavery. -
Slavery was now outload -
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United State -
Grants the right to vote for all male citizens regardless of their ethnicity or prior slave status. -
A defining moment for two Native American nations, the Cheyenne and the Lakota Sioux. -
Upheld state-imposed Jim Crow laws it became the legal basis for racial segregation in the United States. -
The town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota was seized, by followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM), who staged a 71-day occupation of the area.