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NorthWest Ordinanace
After America winning the war people began migrating to the newly controlled territory and they began applying for statehood and basically, the north-west ordinance said that any new territory with a good population can become a state. -
Louisanna Purchase
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson purchased this territory through the France treaty and sent Lewis and Clark. To explore the territory. This is also how they found the North-West Passage. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is the U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization. -
Nullification Crisis
The nullification crisis was a United States sectional political crisis in 1832–33 During the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government. -
Texas annexiation
Mexico refused to acknowledge Texas independence, and Texas could not be admitted as a new state because of border disputes and the Slavery issueBalance of Power between slave states and free states Who had more representation in Congress, slave states, or free states texas remained an independent republic for almost a decade while the slavery issue was ironed out. -
Oregon Treaty
The United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Oregon on June 15, 1846, ending 28 years of joint occupancy of the Pacific Northwest. The treaty established the 49th parallel as the border between the two countries. -
Mexican Cession
The Mexican cession contained territories that made up most of the rest of the southwestern United States which the US acquired by the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War. -
Bleeding Kansas
In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned the Missouri Compromise's use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty. -
Kansas Nebraska act
Stephan Douglass proposes popular sovereignty (letting the people decide) whether Kansas and Nebraska would be slave or free states. This led to Bleeding Kansas when both pro and anti-slavery supporters attempted to sway the votes, leading to violence and deaths. -
Battle of Bull Run
Stonewall Jackson led the Confederacy to the victory of the Battle of Bull Run. This battle made people realize the war would be longer than they anticipated. Lincoln replaced McDowell with General George G. McClellan in hopes he would lead the Union to victory. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter is where the Civil War began. The Confederacy won and the Union retreated. This battle was the direct result of what started the Civil War. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam resulted in a tactical draw. This was the bloodiest day of the Civil War. This was the first time the South invaded the North. The result of this caused Lincoln to believe that he needed to move forward with the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Presidental Reconstruction
The first plan for reconstruction was known as Presidential Reconstruction or the 10% plan. This plan, proposed by Lincoln prior to his assassination, stated that only 10% of southern voters from the 1860 election needed to swear an oath to the Union and accept the terms of emancipating their slaves. -
Emancipation Proclimation
This is the document lincoln created to end the civil war once the Confederacy surrender. -
Battle of Vicksburg
The Battle of Vicksburg was a Union victory. They successfully gained control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy into two. This event is known as a key turning point in in western theatre. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was a Union victory. This was the South's second and final time invading the North. The Confederacy retreated to Virginia with 1/3rd of their fighting force dead or wounded. -
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln visited the Gettysburg battle field to dedicate a cemetery for soldiers that died in the war. He talks about the Declaration of Independence. He spoke about how to preserve the nation. -
Sherman March to sea
Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted throughout Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman also followed the total war strategy. He led his forces on a march to the sea from the Tennessee-Georgia border, utilizing. -
Congressional Reconstruction
Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 Split the former Confederacy into 5 military districts controlled by the US Army to better enforce the Reconstruction amendments and the rights they accorded to freemen must ratify the 14th amendment. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".