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104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement,they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement. Jamestown was the first successful permanent English settlement in what would become the United States.. -
The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord.The battle signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war. -
The first formal statement by a nation's people asserting their right to choose their own government.The American colonists were able to confirm an official alliance with the Government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain. -
A convention of delegates from all the states except Rhode Island met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the convention it was decided that the best solution to the young country's problems was to set aside the Articles of Confederation and write a new constitution. -
The Federalist incumbent John Adams ran against the rising Republican Thomas Jefferson. Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party. The election was a political realignment that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican leadership. -
The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States in 1803. The deal granted the United States the sole authority to obtain the land from its indigenous inhabitants, either by contract or by conquest. -
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise was meant to create balance between slave and non-slave states. -
The nullification crisis was a conflict between the U.S. state of South Carolina and the federal government of the United States.The Nullification Crisis represented a pivotal moment in American history as this is the first time tensions between state and federal authority almost led to a civil war. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. Marked the official beginning of the American Civil War. -
The first battle of the American Civil War, fought in Virginia near Washington, D.C. The surprising victory of the Confederate army humiliated the North and forced it to prepare for a long war. Bull Run resulted in thousands of lives lost and is referred to as the first major land battle of the American Civil war. -
The Civil War's Battle of Shiloh ended with a United States (Union) victory over Confederate forces in Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. The Battle of Shiloh was a crucial success for the Union Army. -
The battle of Antietam was a decisive engagement that halted the Confederate invasion of Maryland, an advance that was regarded as one of the greatest Confederate threats to Washington, D.C. Union victory at Antietam provided President Abraham Lincoln the opportunity he had wanted to announce the Emancipation Proclamation, making the Battle of Antietam one of the key turning points of the American Civil War. -
The Siege of Vicksburg was a great victory for the Union. It gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union. -
The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in the Civil War, costing the Union 23,000 killed, wounded, or missing in action. The battle was a Union victory. -
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, murderous attack on Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of April 14, 1865. Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning. Lincoln assassinated just five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox Court House, ending the four-year War Between the States.