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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
regular freezing and thawing, plus intermittent snowfall and rain, coupled with shortages of provisions, clothing, and shoes, made living conditions extremely difficult
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Revolutionary War hero Benedict Arnold turned his back on his country in a secret meeting with a top British official. -
It became known as the turning point of the war in the South, part of a chain of events leading to the Patriot victory at Yorktown -
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The Battle of Baltimore was a sea/land battle fought between British and American forces in the War of 1812.
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adopted by Congress as the U.S. national anthem in 1931 -
Andrew Jackson's hastily assembled army won the day against a battle-hardened and numerically superior British force. The resounding American victory at the Battle of New Orleans soon became a symbol of American democracy -
Jackson decisively won the election, carrying 55.5% of the popular vote and 178 electoral votes -
part of the Texas Revolution in which the Mexican state of Tejas won independence and became a self-governing republic becoming texas
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When the dust cleared, Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.
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voters in the United States went to the polls in an election that ended with Abraham Lincoln as President -
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union -
The first major battle of the American Civil War -
The turning point in the American Civil War ended Confederate general Robert E. Lee's ambitious second quest to invade the North and bring the Civil War to a swift end.
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Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met in the parlor of a house in Appomattox Court House, Virginia, to discuss the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, which would effectively end the Civil War. -
an explosion of unknown origin sank the battleship U.S.S. Maine in the Havana, Cuba harbor, killing 266 of the 354 crew members. The sinking of the Maine eventually lead to a naval blockade of Cuba and a declaration of war. -
largest and first battle of the Philippine-American War, a war between the United States and Filipino revolutionaries from 1899 to 1902, an insurrection that may be seen as a continuation of the Philippine Revolution against Spanish rule.