Early American Discrimination Timeline

  • Massacre at Mystic

    Massacre at Mystic
    English Settlers tried to completely destroy the Pequot Indians at the village of Mystic. This showes the Native Americans that peace with white settlers was nearly impossible.
  • Scalp act

    Scalp act
    This act legealized the taking of indian scalps for money. This act was meant to destroy the Delaware Indian tribe.
  • slave trade ends in the united states

    slave trade ends in the united states
    The act abolished the slaves trade in the British Empire, in particular the atlantic... the united states acted to abolish its atlantic slave trade the same month on 2......
  • Battle of tippencanoe

    Battle of tippencanoe
    The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought on November 7, 1811, near present-day Lafayette, this is where william harrison and his army took down tecumseh and his army
  • Indian removal act

    Indian removal act
    During the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Indian tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands.
  • Nat turner rebellion

    Nat turner rebellion
    took place in southhampton county, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears
    Cherakee Indians are forced to move from Gerorgia to Arkansas by President Andrew Jackson. Thousands of Native Americans died in the Forced move.
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    Dred Scotts master moved him to a free state and then back to a slave state. Dred Scott sued, saying that since he had lived in a free state he was a free man. The Supreme court said that Dred Scott caint sue because slave aren't citizens of the United States
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    Presidental Act that freed slaves in the rebellion states. This was the first step to ending slavery in the United States.
  • 13th admendment

    13th admendment
    The constitutional admendment was what ended slavery.
  • 14th admendment

    14th admendment
    Ofically makes blacks citizens of the united states.
  • 15th admendment

    15th admendment
    gives black men the right to vote in the United States.
  • Battle of little big horn

    Battle of little big horn
    Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his troops faught against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.
  • The battle of wounded knee

    The battle of wounded knee
    The wounded knee massacre occured on April 27, 1890 near wounded knee creek on the Lakota pine ridge indian reservation in the U.S state of south Dakota.
  • plessy vs. ferguson

    plessy vs. ferguson
    Segregation: it says you could have seperate water fountans. bathrooms, train cars schools as long as they are equal