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The Thirteen Colonies were ready to take on the British in the American Revolutionary War with the assistance of France.
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The year that the U.S declared independence
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The year that the American revolution between the 13 colonies and the British was over
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The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.
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The year when George Washington became the 1st president
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uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government.
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The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803
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DescriptionThe War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom.
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The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823.
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The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy).
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The year that Abraham Lincoln was chosen as the 16th president.
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The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in a theatre
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On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate troops to the Union's Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
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was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States and is recognized as a universal symbol of freedom and democracy.
