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Declaration of Independence
American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. -
Constitution of the United States of America
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. This founding document, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. -
1800s: Louisiana Purchase (1803)
the America purchaser bought land and this piece of land gave the America U.S the states of Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma along with most of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Minnesota. adding on Staes to are colony -
1810s: Battle of New Orleans (1815)
The British hoped to seize New Orleans in an effort to expand into territory acquired by the United States through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. this lead to a war -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
It was the end of the war between the United States and Mexico. By these terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, to the United States. -
Dred Scott Decision (1857)
The Dred Scott decision was the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision by granting citizenship to all those born in the United States, regardless of color. -
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought between the Union and the Confederacy. The central cause of the war was the status of slavery, especially the expansion of slavery into territories that slavery was not allowed. in the end of the War
it was decided that the courts would abolished slavery in the United States -
Rosa Parks Bus boycott
civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery she was therefore arrested for the violation of the city's racial segregation laws., Her actions inspired the leaders of the local Black community to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott. this lead to the Supreme Court ruling segregation on public buses unconstitutional -
I Have a Dream
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr., during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and later sexual orientation and gender identity. making men and women equal