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enraged the settlers that the warriors would kill civilians and led to increased support for the Pequot War among colonists. -
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 -
every enslaved American would be counted as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation purposes -
Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million captured men, women, and children were put on ships in Africa, and 10.7 million arrived in the Americas. The Atlantic Slave Trade was likely the most costly in human life of all long-distance global migrations. -
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. -
a law that tried to address growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery. -
authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
hardened proslavery attitudes among Southern whites and led to new oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves. -
permitted for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state and fled into another -
the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast. -
upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. -
declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. -
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States -
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” -
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 -
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.