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Sugar Act
Act Increases The Duties On Imported Sugar & Other Items -
Stamp Act
Americans Will Pay Tax Not To Their Own Local Legistalers In America But Directly To England -
Quatering Act
Requires Colonist To House British Troups And To Supply Them With Food & Water -
Townshend Revenue Acts
Imposing A New Series Of Taxes On The Colonist To Offset The Cost Of Administering And Protecting The American Colonist -
Boston Massacre
Occurs As A Mob Hurasses British Soldiers Who Then Fire Their Muskets Point Blank Into The Crowd, Killing 3 Instantly, Mortally Wounding 2 Others, And Injuring 6 -
The California Gold Rush
When Gold Was Found By James W. Marshall At Sufters Mill,
News Of The Discovery Brought Some 300,00 People To California. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Created The Territories Of Kansas Nebraska -
Abraham Lincoln Elected As President
The First Republican To Receive 180 Out Of 303 Possible Electoral Votes And 40% Of The Popular Vote -
South Carolina Secedes From Union
South Carolina Secedes, Followed By Mississipi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisana, & Texas -
The Confederate States Of America
Formed With Jeffereson Davis, A West Point Graduate and Former US Army Officer, As President -
Abraham Lincoln Is Sworn In
He Was Sworn In As 16th President Of The United States Of America -
Civil War Begins
At 4:30 A.M. Confederates Under Gen. Pierre Beauregard Open Fired With 50 Canons Upon Fort Sumter In Charleston, South Carolina -
Virginia Secedes From Union
Followed Within 5 Weeks By Arkansas, Tennese, And North Carolina. Thus Forming An 11 State Confederacy -
Victory For Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
In Tennese, Capturing Fort Henry, 10 Days Later Fort Donelson -
President Lincoln's Son Dies
President Lincoln Is Struck With Grief After His Beloved Son, Willie Died Of Fever, Probably Caused By Polluted Water -
Emancipation Proclamation
Freeing Slaves Issued By President Lincoln -
Grant Is Placed In Command
Grant Placed In Command Of Army In The West Orders The Capture Of Vicksburg -
Stone Wall Jackson Dies
South Suffers Huge Blow After Death Of Jackson. His Last Words Were "Let Us Cross Over The River And Rest Under The Shade Of The Trees" -
War Turns Against South
As The Confederates Are Defeated At The Battle Of Gettysburg In Pennyslvania -
Lee Surrenders
Lee Surrenders His Confederate Army To General Grant At The Village Of Appomattox Courthouse In Virginia -
Lincoln Gets Shot
President Lincoln Gets Shot In The Head By John Wilkse Booth While Watching The Play Our American Cousin -
John Wilkes Booth Is Killed
He Is Shot And Killed In A Tobacco Barn In Virginia, Most Likely For The Assasination Of Lincoln -
The 13th Ammendment
Passed By Congress On January 31, 1865, Its Finally Ratified. -
US Surrenders To The Japanese
The U.S Surrendered To The Japanese At Corregidor In The Philippine Issands -
North Korean Plans To Invade The U.S.
Stalin Approves Of A Plan To Invade The U.S, Who Supports South Korea. The U.S. Found Out And Sent U.S Troops To North Korea -
Lift Off Of Apollo 11
Apollo 11 Lifts Off On A 4 Day Mission To The Moon
