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The Mystic massacre also known as the Pequot massacre and the Battle of Mystic Fort took place during the Pequot War. This happened 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. A pre-dawn attack on Mystic Fort left 500 adults and children of the Pequot tribe dead, and left a three year war instigated by the Puritans to seize the tribe's traditional land. -
This Date in Native History: On April 8, 1756, “The 1756 Scalp Act was the result of close to 40 years of the Penn family lying to Delaware and Shawnees,” Pennsylvania Historian Norman Houser said. The act legalized the taking of scalps for money, paid by the Pennsylvania government. The Scalp Act passed as a means to get rid of the Delaware once and for all. -
It determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation. In the continental congress where each state had an equal vote there were only five states in which slavery was a major institution. The southern states had about 38 percent of the seats in the Continental Congress. -
It was utilized to gather up quite a few slaves escaped slaves. People who weren't slaves at all who were free born and sent them back to the South. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves. -
The practice of slavery continued to be legal in much of the U.S. until 1865, of course, and enslaved people continued to be bought and sold within the Southern states, but in January 1808 the legal flow of new Africans into this country stopped forever. -
The battle was between the American forces under the command of William Henry Harrison. The Native American warriors under the leadership of Tenskwatawa commonly referred to as The Prophet. Deemed an American victory, the battle had far-lasting implications with Native. -
It maintained a delicate balance between free and slave states. On the single most divisive issue of the day, the U.S. Senate was equally divided. The Missouri Compromise was federal legislation of the United States that balanced the desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it. -
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. It gave the federal government the power to remove Indians to designated territory west of the Mississippi River. It removed about 60,000 Indians from the Southeastern United States and it also increased the rate of westward expansion. -
Turner and his followers started at his master's house and killed the entire family. They marched throughout southampton county in Virginia killing at least 55 people until white authorities crushed the revolt. Turner avoided capture for nearly two months before he was caught. -
In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which required the various Indian tribes in today’s southeastern United States to give up their lands in exchange for federal territory which was located west of the Mississippi River. Most Indians fiercely resisted this policy, but as the 1830s wore on, most of the major tribes – the Choctaws, Muscogee Creeks, Seminoles, and Chickasaws – agreed to be relocated to Indian Territory (in present-day Oklahoma). -
The United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories and denied the legality of black citizenship in America. They declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a Federal territory. -
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are and henceforward shall be free." The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the union cause and strengthened the union both militarily and politically. -
“all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Nonetheless, the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation since it only applied to areas of the Confederacy. Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. -
So the 15th Amendment is the right of citizens of the United States to vote. Also shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It also granted African American men the right to vote. -
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, pitted federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. Tensions between the two groups had been rising since the discovery of gold on Native American lands. -
Many women and children were slaughtered within minutes. As the Ghost Dance movement spread,frightened white settlers believed it a prelude to an armed uprising. This was caused by tensions between the u.s. government and the Sioux Native American tribe as well as cultural misunderstandings and conflicts. -
Plessy vs Ferguson is the Supreme Court case that had originally upheld the constitutionality of separate but equal facilities based on race. It established the constitutionality of laws mandating separate but equal public accommodations for African Americans and whites. This 1896 ruling remained the law until the Brown v.