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Representatives from twelve of the thirteen colonies met in Philadelphia to discuss what to do in response to the Coercive Acts that Britain had passed.
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Colonists living in America wanted independence from Britain, but Britain wanted to keep control of America. The two nations began a war which ended in American independence.
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Delegates from the thirteen colonies met and talked about the Revolution and what they were planning to do.
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The Second Continental Congress sent a petition to Britain as an attempt to end the war but the king rejected it.
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During a Second Continental Congress meeting, they wrote a the Declaration of Independence which stated why the US wanted to leave Britain's rule.
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The Second Continental Congress created a set of "rules" called the Articles of Confederation. The rules ended up failing because the federal government was too weak.
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The Treaty of Paris was signed by Great Britain and the US. The signing of the treaty ended the American Revolutionary War.
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The convention was a meeting that took place in Philadelphia. The objective of the convention was for the colonists to decide how America was to be governed.
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During the Constitutional Convention, colonists created the US Constitution which laid out the supreme laws for the United States.
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A list of ten amendments were added to the beginning of the US Constitution. The amendments were created to guarantee civil rights and liberties to citizens.
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A land deal took place between the US and France in which the US gained land from France in exchange for money that France needed for war.
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Britain had been violating US maritime rights which caused the US and Britain to go to war.
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The treaty was signed by both the US and Britain which ended the War of 1812 and set up a plan to determine the boundary between the US and Canada.
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After the War of 1812, a financial crisis spread through out the US.
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The treaty between the US and Spain gave Florida to the US and defined the boundary between US and Spain territory.
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Congress passed a bill that admitted Missouri as a slave state, created Maine as a free state and excluded slavery from new states in the Louisiana Purchase north of MIssouri's southern boundary.
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The US issued a policy that warned European nations that the US would not allow more colonization.
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A tariff was passed to protect industry in the North by taxing all foreign goods. The South was hurt by this tariff because it caused England to purchase less Southern goods since they didn't have as much money.
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A law was created and passed that allowed the President to grant western land to Indian tribes that agreed to give up their current land. Many natives did not want to move so they were forced or killed.
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Texas became a part of the US and was admitted as the 28th state.
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Mexico and the US went to war over border disputes and the annexation of Texas.
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A peace treaty is signed between the US and Mexico to end the Mexican-American War.
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A woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe published a novel that helped many people understand the horrible things about slavery and change their ideas about it.
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Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act which allowed the citizens of Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they would allow or would not allow slavery.
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The North and South of the US fought over whether the use of slavery should be allowed or not. In the end, the North won and slavery was abolished.
