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The Mystic Massacre, also known as the Pequot Massacre, occurred on May 26, 1637, during the Pequot War when English colonists and their Mohegan and Narragansett allies attacked and burned a fortified Pequot village near the Mystic River in Connecticut. -
The Indian Removal Act, signed into law by U.S. President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorized the president to negotiate treaties for Native American tribes to exchange their homelands east of the Mississippi River for lands west of the river. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a bloody uprising of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by the enslaved preacher Nat Turner. -
The Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation and removal of the Five Civilized Tribes—the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole—from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to "Indian Territory" (present-day Oklahoma) during the 1830s and 1840s -
The Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v. Sandford) was a landmark 1857 U.S. Supreme Court ruling stating that people of African descent could not be U.S. citizens, that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories -
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring that all enslaved people in the rebellious Confederate states were free. -
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1865, formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States and its territories, except as punishment for a crime for which a person has been duly convicted. -
The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and prohibited states from infringing on the rights of citizens without due process and equal protection under the law -
The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibits states from denying any citizen the right to vote based on their "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". -
The battle was a momentary victory for the Lakota and Cheyenne. The death of Custer and his troops became a rallying point for the United States to increase their efforts to force native peoples onto reservation lands. -
Plessy v. Ferguson was an 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the \"separate but equal\" doctrine, which stated that racially segregated public facilities were permissible as long as the facilities were of equal quality.