Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
It is the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, it was an agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South.
What is freedmen bureau?
It was a cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America
What is the manifest destiny?
This refers to the reality that the United States criminalizes and incarcerates more of its own people than any other country in the history of the world and inflicts that enormous harm primarily on the most vulnerable among us: poor people of color.
What is Mass incarceration?
While Native Americans and English settlers in the New England territories first attempted a mutual relationship based on trade and a shared dedication to spirituality, soon disease and other conflicts led to a deteriorated relationship and, eventually, the First Indian War.
What is the relationship between Native Americans and Americans in the west?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws"
What is the 14th Amendment?
This act authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots.
What is the Dawes act?
African American men were sent to help control the Native Americans of the Plains, capture cattle rustlers and thieves and protect settlers, stagecoaches, wagon trains and railroad crews along the Western front.
What is buffalo soldiers and the contrversy behind them?
It is refuse (a loan or insurance) to someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk.
What is redlining?
The U. S. Army carried out a surprise attack on a non-combatant encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along the Big Sandy Creek in southeastern Colorado, killing about 160 men, women, and children, including elderly or infirm.
What is the Sand Creek massacre?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and five years of continuous residence on that land.
What is the Homestead act?
This is a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture and corporal mutilation
What is lyniching in america?
This is when combined with zero-tolerance policies, a teacher's decision to refer students for punishment can mean they are pushed out of the classroom—and much more likely to be introduced into the criminal justice system.
What is the school to prision pipeline?
This was the forced relocation during the 1830s of Indigenous peoples of the Southeast region of the United States (including the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among others) to the so-called Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Trail of tears?