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This is important because it was the first document to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
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This is important because this document gave us independence from Great Britain.
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This is important because this fire destroyed 10 to 25 percent ot the city and many people believe British leaders deliberatley started the fire.
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The Articles of Confederation were important because they allowed for a weak set of rules until they were replaced by the Constitution.
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This is important because this document ended the American Revoutionary War.
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This led to the creation of the Northwest territory, the first United States territory above the Great Lakes.
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This is important because the Constitution guides American society in law and politics.
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The Bill of Rights plays a key role in law and government and symbolizes American freedoms.
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The Library of Congress is important because it is the official research place for the United States Congress
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The United States paid less than 3 cents per acre for the 828,000 square miles of the Louisiana Territory.
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This is an important date because Lewis and Clark were leaving to go explore the Louisiana Territory, which eventually led to the Louisiana Purchase.
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This is an important event because the United States proved to the world that we were in independent nation.
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This is an important event because it ended the War of 1812.
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Slavery was prohibited in all of the Louisiana Territory with the exception of Missouri.
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This is one of the United States' foreign policies stating that European countries should not intervene in countries south of the United States.
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The Indian Removal Act allowed President Jackson to negotiate with the Indians for them to leave to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands.
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This is important because the United States annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as a 28th state.
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This is important because this war helped us expand westward by gaining Texas.
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This is important because it led to Mexico surrenduring to the United States and negotiations to end the war.
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This is important because it brought a lot of immagrants and American citizens from Europe to California.
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This was a landmark decision by the United States Surpreme Court stating that African American slaves were not considered as United Sates citizens.
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This is important because these 11 Slave-States formed the Confederate States of America.
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This is important because this batlle started the American Civil War.
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This is important because this was the first major land battle fought in the American Civil War.
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The Second Battle of Bull Run was a very important victory for the South, and was fought on the same ground as the First Battle of Bull Run.
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This is very important because this proclamation by Lincoln, immidiately freed 50,000 slaves.
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This battle is important because it had the most casualties out of all the other battles in the American Civil War.
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This is important because Lincoln was very imortant to the Union and he was the president.
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This is an important event because it was one of the biggest U.S. disasters in the 19th century.
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This was important because it was a huge technological advance for society.