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The massacre took place on May 26, 1637 during the Pequot War, when a force from Connecticut Colony under Captain John Mason and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River. They circled the fort and shot anyone who tried to escape it.
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The "Scalp Act" refers to several different policies, but a significant one was passed by Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Robert Morris
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The Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement at the 1787 Constitutional Convention where, for purposes of both representation and taxation, three out of every five enslaved persons in a state would be counted towards the total population
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fought on November 7, 1811, between U.S. forces led by William Henry Harrison and Native American warriors associated with Tecumseh and his brother, Tenskwatawa
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The Missouri Compromise was passed by the 16th United States Congress on March 3, 1820, and signed into law by President James Monroe on March 6, 1820
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authorized the president to negotiate treaties with Native American tribes to exchange their lands east of the Mississippi River for lands in the west
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The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American peoples, beginning as early as 1831 with the Choctaw and continuing through the 1830s for the Muscogee Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations
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Nat Turner's Rebellion, historically known as the Southampton Insurrection, was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia
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The Fugitive Slave Act refers to two congressional statutes passed in 1793 and 1850 that allowed slave owners to reclaim and return runaway slaves from other states, derived from the Fugitive Slave Clause in the U.S. Constitution
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The Dred Scott Decision of 1857 was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that denied citizenship to all people of African descent and stated that Congress could not prohibit slavery in federal territories, ultimately making the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring enslaved people in the rebellious Confederate states to be free
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Slavery ended in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment in December 1865, after the Civil War, which abolished chattel slavery nationwide. Before this, the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in rebelling states during the war, and the international slave trade was already illegal in the U.S. since 1808
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formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude across the nation, with the exception of such servitude as punishment for a crime
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granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people, and prohibited states from denying them life, liberty, or property without due process of law or equal protection of the laws
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prevents the government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on their race, color, or previous condition of servitude
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Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors defeated the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer
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The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army
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an 1896 Supreme Court case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine, which upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws under the Fourteenth Amendment