significant events before 1877

By jordanisabamf
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  • the pilgrams arrive

    the pilgrams arrive at plymoth rock
  • the mayflower compact

    the mayflower compact

    the mayflower compact was founded
  • the sugar act

    the sugar act

    taxed sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico.
  • the boston massacre

    the boston massacre

    only five died but it was considered a massacre
  • the boston tea party

    the boston tea party

    a group of colonists boarded a taxed tea ship and threw the tea into the water
  • the revolutionary war started

    the revolutionary war started

    the start of the revolutionary war
  • the decleration of independance

    the decleration of independance

    the decleration of independance was signed
  • the battle of saratoga

    the battle of saratoga

  • the revolutionionary war ends

    the war ends
  • the treaty of paris

    the treaty of paris

    The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784, and by the King of Great Britain on April 9, 1784 (the ratification documents were exchanged in Paris on May 12, 1784),
  • the louisiana purchase

    the louisiana purchase

    america purchased louisiana
  • war of 1812

    war of 1812

  • the monroe doctrine

    the monroe doctrine

    the document that was to stop the european countries from invading america
  • the nullification crisis

    the nullification crisis

  • the annexation of texas

    the annexation of texas

    texas was added to america
  • the comprimise of 1850

    the comprimise of 1850

    texas was given ten thousand dollars to pay off its debt to mexico.

  • civil war starts

  • the emancipation proclamation

    the emancipation proclamation

    the freedom of slaves

  • the civil war ends