Natives, Africans, & Mexicans in the U.S (1776-1861)

1. Africans

2. Natives

3. Seminole War from 1835 to 1842. Fugitive slaves fought beside the Seminoles who had taken them in.

4. By 1837, the Jackson administration had removed 46,000 Native American people from their land and secured treaties

5. African American as slaves

6. Sold and exploited by their owners

7. In the 17th and 18th centuries, some blacks gained their freedom, acquired property, and gained access to American society

8. With the defeat of the Confederacy, Northern troops remained in the South to ensure the slaves newly won freedom

9. Slaves were tortured and given the worst treatment of punishment

10. January, A.D. 1863, 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

11. Mexicans

11.1. inevitable clashes between Mexican troops and U.S. forces provided the rationale for a Congressional declaration of war on May 13, 1846

12. Indians removed from their land, many resisted.

13. -Tribes agreed to treaties for hopes of retaining some of their land

14. Indians could occupy lands within the United States, but could not hold title to those lands

15. On February 2, 1848 the Treaty was signed in Guadalupe Hidalgo, its provisions called for Mexico to cede 55% of its territory in exchange for fifteen million dollars in compensation for war-related damage to Mexican property.

16. the war between the United States and Mexico was about violence, racism, appropriation and expropriation

17. Mexicans in the U.S had to become second-class citizens. American laws were not extended equally to them. Justice was delayed and therefore denied