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John Peter Zenger
He fight for free dom, and he was arrested, he was pronounced no't guilty, because he was telling the truth, even he was printing articles against the Government. -
Albany Plan of Union
The colonists knew that the problems with land are her, ship could start a war between prance and Great Britain -
Era of Good Feelings
The yrs. after the end of the War of 1812 were named the "era of good feelings" because of the lack of partisan political strife. -
Boston Tea Party
Another precursor to the American Revolution, the Boston Tea Party, happend in Boston Aarbor when colonists dumped tea off of three ships to protest english taxation -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which helped to separate the seeds from cotton. Cotton was profitable after the invention of the gin though it increased slavery. -
Robert Fulton's Steamboat
By using a steam-powered engine made in England and an unusual set of wheel-shaped paddles from another American inventor, Robert Fulton built 1st commercially workable steamboat. -
General Andrew Jackson invades Florida to stop Seminole attacks
In 1812, Jackson was appointed Major General in the Volunteer Corps. President Monroe ordered Jackson to try to stop Seminole Indians attacks on settlers in Georgia. Jackson was instructed not to invade Florida unless he was in hot. two British citizens, allegedly for inciting the Seminole tribe to violence. -
The Adams-onis treaty is signed, giving florida to the u.s.
The AdamsOnís Treaty sometimes referred to as The Florida Treaty was signed ... The treaty was named for John Quincy Adams of the United States and Louis ..... The United States to give to His Catholic Majesty, a proof of their desire ... was concluded and signed in the City of Washington between Don Luis de Onís, ... -
The Missouri Compromise Is Approved
The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States congress involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
Monroe Announces The Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is a United States policy that was introduced on December 2, 1823, which stated that further efforts by European countries to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed by the United States of America as acts of aggression requiring US intervention.[1] The Monroe Doctrine asserted that the Western Hemisphere was not to be further colonized by European countries, and that the United States would not interfere with existing European colonies nor in t -
The Erie Canal Opens
The Erie Canal, built across New York State in the 1820s, opened the Midwest to development and helped New York City become a worldwide trading center. -
The U.S. declares war on Mexico
The Mexican–American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory -
Gold Is Discovered In California
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was discovered by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California.[1] News of the discovery soon spread, resulting in some 300,000 men, women, and children coming to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.[2] Of the 300,000, approximately 150,000 arrived by sea while the remaining 150,000 arrived by land. -
The Fugitive Slave Law Is Passed
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slaveholding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. This was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a 'slave power conspiracy'. It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law". -
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Uncle Tom's Cabin Life Among the Lowly is an anti slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe . Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African -
President Frankin Pierce Makes The Gadsden Purchase
On December 30, 1853, the Gadsden Purchase Treaty was signed, giving the United States approximately 45,000 square miles of northern Mexico. President Franklin Pierce and his Secretary of State Jefferson Davis wanted the land - which now comprises New Mexico and a quarter of southern Arizona - for a proposed southern transcontinental railroad. Pierce appointed South Carolinian railroad promoter James Gadsden as American minister to Mexico and charged him with negotiating a treaty with President -
The Kansas Nebraska Act is passed
The initial purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to create opportunities for a Mideastern Transcontinental Railroad. It was not problematic until popular sovereignty was written into the proposal. The act was designed by Democratic Sen. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford Case
The case raised the issue of a black slave who lived in a free state. Congress had not asserted whether slaves were free once they set foot upon Northern soil. The ruling arguably overturned the Missouri Compromise as, based on the court's logic, any attempt at regulating slavery in the Federal Territories deprived a white slave owner of his property without due process. This factor upset the Northern Republicans and further split Northern and Southern relations, exacerbating violent sentiments -
Abraham Lincoln becomes President
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. -
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States, and the CSA) was the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S. The CSA's de facto control over its claimed territory varied during the course of the American Civil War, depending on the success of its military in battle. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation consists of two executive orders issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. The first one, issued September 22, 1862, declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. The second order, issued January 1, 1863, named ten specific states where it would apply. Lincoln issued the Executive Order by his authority as "Commander in Chief of the -
Battle of Gettysburg
In June 1863, General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia launched an invasion of the North.
On July 1, General George Meade and the Union's Army of the Potomac met Lee's force at the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The fighting started on July 1. While the Northern army numbered approximately eighty-five thousand men to the South's seventy-five thousand soldiers, the Confederates outnumbered the Union soldiers as the battle opened. The Confederates drove the Northerne -
General Robert E. Lee Surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant
On the evening of April the 8th, 1865 General Robert E. Lee and the remnants of his once-proud Army of Northern Virginia arrived in Appomattox County one step ahead of the pursuing Federal Army. Lee's hope was to reach Appomattox Station on the South Side Railroad where supply trains awaited. -
General Lee SurrenderS
On April 3, Richmond fell to Union troops as Robert E. Lee led his Army of Northern Virginia in retreat to the West pursued by Grant and the Army of the Potomac. A running battle ensued as each Army moved farther to the West in an effort to out flank, or prevent being out flanked by the enemy. Finally, on April 7, General Grant initiated a series of dispatches leading to a meeting between the two commanders. -
Brooklyn Bridge Completed
The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. -
Plessy v. Ferguson Case
In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a Louisiana law mandating separate but equal accommodations for blacks and whites on intrastate railroads was constitutional. This decision provided the legal foundation to justify many other actions by state and local governments to socially separate blacks and whites. Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned in 1954 by Brown v. Board of Education. -
John Quincy Adams Is Elected The 6th President
John Quincy Adams followed in his father's footsteps and became the sixth President of the United States. Besides the current President, he was the only son of a President to also become President.
