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Jamestown was the first successful permanent English settlement. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary War. -
The signing of the Declaration of Independence is the most important but least celebrated days in American history when 56 members of the Second Continental Congress started signing the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. -
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decided on how America was going to be governed. -
Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party. -
The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution. -
Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed by the U.S. Congress in 1820. Congress agreed to admit Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. -
The Monroe Doctrine was created by President James Monroe to protect American interests in the Western Hemisphere. -
The Nullification Crisis was a conflict between the U.S. state of South Carolina and the federal government of the United States. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter was taken place near Charleston, South Carolina and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. -
First battle in the North (Maryland). 23,000 Casualties- marking the single bloodiest day in American history. Lincoln used this "victory" to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Lincoln dedicated the cemetery at Gettysburg and laid forth a vision of the future. Lincoln described the Civil War as a struggle to preserve. -
Freed slaves in the rebelling states, made abolition of slavery a Northern war aim, discouraged interference from foreign governments, and allowed for the enlistment of African Americans soldiers in the Union Army. -
John Wilkes Booth became the first person to assassinate an American president when he shot and killed Abraham Lincoln at the Ford's Theater in Washington. Booth believed that Lincoln was determined overthrow the Constitution and to destroy his beloved South. -
Robert E. Lee, facing troop and supply shortages, surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.