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The war resulted the destruction of the Pequot nation, with many Pequot men, women, and children killed. It marked a turning point in pequot war -
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a violent uprising of enslaved people. killed approximately 55 white people before being suppressed. Led to new laws. -
stated African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court. It was important because denied the legality of black citizenship in America. -
an executive order by President Abraham Lincoln that declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territories to be free. -
officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime, within the United States and its territories -
defining U.S. citizenship, granting all persons born in the U.S. to citizens, prohibiting states from denying the equal protection of the laws to anyone -
prohibits denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".