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The Boston Massacre occured when the British troops fired into the Boston mob. This even was later credited as the first battle of the American Revolution.
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776.
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The Declaration on Independence was written to assure natural rights to all people, The declaration states that all people have the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuite of Happiness.
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Establishment of the Bank was included in a three-part expansion of federal fiscal and monetary power championed by Alexander Hamilton
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The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
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Whiskey tax continued to grow for over two years.
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The U.S. purchased 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River from France for $15 million dollars. Which more than doubled the size of the U.S.
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The expedition was commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, consisting of a select group of U.S. Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark.
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Hospital for the insane opened. Superintendent Cyrus Knapp. 30 patients by 12/31/1840.
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The First Women's Rights Convention was held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY. An estimated 300 men and women attended the Convention. At the conclusion, 68 women and 32 men signed the Decaration of Sentiments.
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the Civil War began with shots fired on the fort. Fort Sumter eventually was surrendered to South Carolina.
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It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states that were still in rebellion.
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The first U.S. President to be assassinated. The assassination of Lincoln was planned and carried out by the well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, as part of a larger conspiracy in a bid to revive the Confederate cause.
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This shot ended the Civil War. It is important, because it ended the 4 year war and brought the US back together.
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Prohibiting race as a voting qualification.
