FOA timeline

  • creation of cotton gin

    Eli Whitney creates cotton gin, making it easier for seeds to be separated from cotton
  • XYZ Affair

    Confrontation between USA and France, XYZ were spies demanding payment from USA 1797-1798
  • alien and sedition acts

    Made it harder for immigrants to become a citizen, president can deport people he thinks are dangerous
  • Marbury v Madison

    Marbury had been appointed a judge before the president had to leave,
  • Missouri compromise

    In 1819 Missouri became a state, anywhere north of that star would be non slave state
  • Worcester v Georgia

    Worcester was convicted of being on native lands without a license while he was on mission work
  • Wilmot proviso

    It was a law proposed that says America can ban slavery anywhere acquired from Mexico
  • Compromise of 1850

    California becomes a free state and New Mexico applies to become a free state
  • Kansas Nebraska act

    Kansas and Nebraska become states
  • Bleeding kansas

    It was a border war, people from free and slave states entered to try to get elections, free and slave people killed each other, part of U.S. civil war
  • dredd scott v sanford

    dred scotts owner had died he was in free territiry, he wanted to know if was actually free, he wasnt
  • battle of antietam

    Civil war changes from northern loss to northern victory
  • BATTLE of gettysburg

    last invasion of the north rest if the war fought on defensive
  • gettysburg addresss

    Abrham lincoln gives speech about victory and birth of new nation
  • Shermans sea march

    sherman ddefeats many southern forces burns down many areas
  • Surrender at courthouse

    South surrenders lee surenfers ending war
  • Lincolns assassanation

    Lincoln ks assasnited by john wilkes booth, escaped prisoner
  • miranda v arizona

    miranda raped awomen he confessed but he didnt know his amendment rights so he confessed
  • tinker v des moines

    tinker was protesting the vietnam war teachers thought it would be a disruption just because they were wearing armbands
  • 13 amendment

    This amendment frees all the slaves
  • bethel high school v fraser

    a student gave a speech about nominating a student, this has to do with free speech in school
  • hazelwood v kulheimer

    student free speech in schools student wrote somthing that did not make people feel very well it was about teen pregnancy and divorce
  • morse v fredrick

    if somthing happens at a school event not at the school, it is still at the school it no free speech "BONG HITS 4 JESUS"
  • riley v california

    david riley was pulled ovver police searched his phone and found. he was asciated with a gang shooting, riley said that they could not search the phone without a warrant he is free
  • peoples republic of Texas

    Texas tries to become a state by going to war with Mexico, they gain independence and are their own country for a few years 1845
  • Annexation of Texas

    Texas is admitted into th USA As a slave state
  • Mexican American war 1846-1848

    USA goes to war with Mexico, America wins Mexico loses half its land and more states are made
  • California gold rush

    California discovers gold, slaves and non slaves enter California, California becomes a free state