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US History 1776-1876
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Declaration of Independece
The 13 colonies sign the Declaration of Independece -
Turning Point of the American Revolution,Battle of Saratoga
7,000 surrendered to a combined force of American militia and Continental regulars. News of the momentous British defeat spread quickly through the colonies and fueled speculation that the French government would now consider entering the conflict on the American side. For months, rumors have suggested that Louis XVI needed solid proof of the strength of the revolution before he would officially commit French military aid to the cause. The British defeat at Saratoga could very well buy -
Final Battle of the American Revolution.Yorktown
A three-week old siege which had begun with the miraculous convergence of French and American forces on the Chesapeake Bay. -
Treaty of Paris
Two months of hard bargaining resulted in a preliminary articles of peace in which the British accepted American independence and boundaries resolved the difficult issues of fishing rights on the Newfoundland banks and prewar debts owed British creditors, promised restitution of property lost during the war by Americans loyal to the British cause, and provided for the evacuation of British forces from the thirteen states. -
Constitution of the United States
How much power to allow the central government, how many representatives in Congress to allow each state, and how these representatives should be elected--directly by the people or by the state legislators. -
Bills of Right is Made
10 amendments to the constitution ensure citizens of the United States freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion and freedom of assembly. Sighed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia.
The city's inhabitants were remarking on the extraordinary number of flies and mosquitoes that swarmed around the dock area. That same month, a trickle of refugees escaping political turmoil in the Caribbean Islands became a torrent of thousands as ship after ship unloaded its human cargo on Philadelphia's docks. -
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin.
Was when the cotton gin was patented and have increased slavery in the process -
Louisiana Purchase
French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte agrees to sell 800,000 square miles of land to the United States for $15 million, this is known as the Louisiana Purchase -
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore the Missouri Valley.
Twenty-five hundred dollars were appropriated to fund a small expeditionary group, whose mission was to explore the uncharted West. -
Robert Fulton Invents the Steamboat.
It made transportation up and down the rivers more easily. -
War of 1812
War of 1812 also came to be known as the second war of independence. A war between the U.S. agianst the British and Canada. -
Missouri Compromise
It was to make the states even between the slave states and the free states. -
Monroe Doctrine
A document tht would keep European power out of the Americas or the U.S. would intervene. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
A religious leader and self-styled Baptist minister, Turner and a group of followers killed some sixty white men, women, and children. -
Battle of the Alamo, Independent Republic of Texas.
Representatives from Texas formally declared their independence. Four days later, Santa Anna completed an infamous siege on the Alamo mission. -
“Trail of Tears”.
Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died. -
California Gold Rush
James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, touching off the California gold rush. -
The Seneca Falls Convention.
Allowed women to vote. -
Abraham Lincoln became President
He succeeds Buchanan and gives his First Inaugural Address -
Civil War Begins, Fort Sumter
Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire marking the start of the Civil War. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It was an important turning point in the war. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point. Union Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, ending Lee's invasion of the North. -
Surrender at Appomattox
Gen.Grant and Robert E.Lee talks about the surrender of the South and the Civil War ends shortly after. -
Lincoln Assassination
Lincoln and his wife,Mary,went to the Ford`s Theater and was shot by Wilkes Booth and dies on April 15. -
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
House of Representatives formally impeached Johnson and charged him with violation of the Tenure of Office Act and bringing into "disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt, and reproach the Congress of the United States." It was then up to the Senate to try Johnson. -
Transcontinental railroad is completed.
Two seperate railways from Sacramento,Califonia and another from Omaha,Navada, they connected at Promontory, Utah in front of a cheering crowd and a band. -
Red River War
The increasing realization that the Indians access to ancestral lands was diminishing encouraged many of the Indians to strike at the encroaching whites. The realization that the buffalo, their main source for survival, was quickly disappearing forced them to fight. For the Indians, this brought retaliation by the U.S. Army, defeat, and confinement to the hated reservations. -
Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone.
People can now communicate with each other from long distances. -
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Custer Spotted the Sioux village about fifteen miles away along the Rosebud River also found a nearby group of about forty warriors. Ignoring orders to wait, he decided to attack before they could alert the main party. He did not realize that the number of warriors in the village numbered three times his strength. Dividing his forces in three, Custer sent troops under Captain Frederick Benteen to prevent their escape through the upper valley of the Little Bighorn River.
