Early American Timeline

  • Battle of Lexington & Concord

    first battles of the revolutionary war. it happened because the British commander in Boston had heard of supplies of powder and weapons being kept by Patriots in the towns of Lexington and Concord.
  • Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence declared independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence also outlined rights.
  • Battle of Saratoga

    it was the turning point of the revolutionary war. British general John Burgoyne surrendered at this battle.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    it was the last battle of the Revolutionary war. The British general Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to General George Washington.
  • Northwest Ordinance

    The Northwest Ordinance charted a government for the northwest territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
  • Alien & Sedition Acts

    The Federalists believed that Democratic-Republican was disloyal and feared that the people living in the United States would sympathize with the French during a war.
  • Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

    The Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana territory was acquired by the united states from french.
  • Marbury V Madison

    the U.S supreme court declared an act of congress unconstitutional and It established the principle of judicial review
  • Missouri Compromise

    it was a settlement between slave and free states. it made several laws pass during 1820 and 1821.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    a principle of US policy that says any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US
  • Nullification crisis

    it declared that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable in South Carolina after February 1, 1833.
  • Texas Annexation

    was the annexation of the republic of Texas to the united states
  • Oregon Treaty

    it was an agreement that set the boundary between the United States and Canada at the 49th parallel west of the rocky mountains.
  • Mexican Cession

    it was the land surrendered to the united states by Mexico at the end of the Mexican war.
  • compromise of 1850

    it consist of five laws passed that dealt with the issue of slavery.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    the Kansas-Nebraska act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    bleeding Kansas was a series of violent situations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which formed debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
  • Battle of Fort Sumter

    it was the first battle of the American Civil War. No Union troops had been killed during the bombardment, but two men died the following day in an explosion.
  • Battle of Bull Run

    this was the first battle of bull run and it was the first major battle of the American Civil War. about 35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington, D.C. to strike a Confederate force of 20,000 along a small river
  • Battle of Antietam

    it made Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army against Union General George McClellan’s Army and was the culmination of Lee’s attempt to invade the north. and its still list the most deadliest one-day battle of American Military history.
  • Battle of gettysburg

    it stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North and more than 50,000 men fell during the battle. this battle was list the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    on January 1, 1863 Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. it declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  • Battle of Vicksburg

    Ulysses S. Grant's army invested the city and trapped a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton.
  • Gettysburg Address

    it was a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln, dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery. The cemetery was for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
  • 13th Amendment

    it abolished slavery
  • 14th Amendment

    it granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States
  • 15th Amendment

    it granted African American men the right to vote.
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    it upheld racial segregation laws. "separate but equal"