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Battle of Saratoga
On September 19th, British general John Burgoyne achieved a small, but costly victory over American forces led by Horatio gates and Benedict Arnold. Though his troop strength had been weakened, Burgoyne again attacked the Americans at Bemis heights on October 7th, but this time was defeated and forced to retreat. He surrendered ten days later, and the American victory convinced the French government to formally recognized the colonists cause and enter the war as their ally -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
The battle of Lexington and concord signaled the startle the American Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775. On the night of April 18, 17775 hundreds of troops marched from Boston to nearby concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the redcoat column. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, soon as the British were hastily retreating under fire -
Battle of Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and continental troops, begins the siege known as the battle of Yorktown, british general lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown. Virginia in the most important battle of the revolutionary war. Cornwallis surrendered to Washington in the field at Yorktown on October 17,1781 effectively ending the war for independence. Although the war persisted on the high seas and in other theaters -
Northwest ordinance
It was adopted by the second continental congress on July 13, 1787. Chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. We acquire it because of the treaty of Paris in (1783). We got it from Great Britain. The northwest ordinance added 5 states -
Alien and sedition act
This act was passed by the federalist congress in 1798. It was also signed into law by president Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. Alien limits immigration and sedition limits freedom of speech. The act violated the first amendment. The alien and sedition act is important to US history because it made it hard for immigrants to vote. -
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799. The Virginia and Kentucky legislatures took the position that the federal alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional. Thomas Jefferson and James Maddison pen the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions. These states were attempting to nullify or go above federal law. The controversy over states rights will continue to faster throughout the next 60 years. -
Marbury v. Madison
The U.S surpreme case marbury v. Madison established the judicial review. Court ruled that the judicial branch has the power to examine the constitution and say what the law is. President John Adams named William marbury as one of forty-two justices of the peace on March 2, 1801. John Adams appoints the midnight judges in the last moments of his presidency. -
Louisiana purchase
The Louisiana purchase was a land deal between the U.S and France. Thomas Jefferson purchase the territory through the Louisiana purchase treaty of France. Napoleon needed money to finance the French Revolution. Jefferson pursued the purchase of Louisiana, despite misgivings over the constitutionality of the purchase. Lewis and Clark were sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana purchase but they found the northwest passage. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.Missouri was permitted as a slave state and mane formerly part of Massachusetts as free. -
Monroe doctrine
It was a U.S. foreign policy regarding European countries in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in north or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S intervention. The doctrine noted that the U.S would recognize and not interfere with existing European colonies nor middle in the internal concerns of European countries the doctrine was issued on December 2, 1823. -
Nullification crisis
States rights-states have the right to declare federal law or tax null and void if it harms that state. Representatives from the north are going to suppose a very high protective tariff, the federal government passed a very high protective tariff. Which angered the south John C. Calhoun attempted to nullify the tariff stating south Carolina wouldn't pay. The judicial branch is the only one that can nullify law. -
Texas Annexation
The Texas annexation was the 1845 annexation of the republic of Texas into united states of america.The republic of Texas declared independence from the republic of mexico controlled territory of Texas declared Independence from mexico after mexico outlawed slavery -
Oregon Treaty
Jointly occupied by the Americans, and the British, and the Spanish. Conflict between the Americans and the British led to negotiations of the British-american border. American newspaper headlined 54'40 or fight supporting war with the British over the territory. Negotiations led to the Oregon treaty of 1846 granting US control south of the 49th parallel and avoiding war. The Oregon Treaty was signed on June 15,1846. -
Mexican Cession (treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
Mexican Cession contained territories that made up of the rest of the southern western United States which the US acquired after the Mexican-american war. The Mexican cession completed manifest destiny by giving Americans control of land from sea to sea. The was officially ended with the February 2,1848, signing in mexico of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Mexican Cession added 6 states. The US gets land from mexico. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 was a package of 5 separate bills passed by the united states congress in September 1850,which defused a four year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican american war. the south gained by the strengthening of the fugitive slave law the north gained a new free state. -
Bleeding (bloody) Kansas
The bleeding Kansas was a series of violent civil confrontation in the U.S between 1854 and1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. The Kansas is an important staging ground for what some people argue is the first battle of the civil war, because it is this battlefield on which the forces of anti-slavery and the forces of slavery meet. -
Battle of Bull Run
The first battle of bull run was fought on July 21,1861 in prince William county,Virginia, it was the first major battle of the civil war and resulted in a confederate victory. -
Battle of fort Sumter
The battle of fort Sumter was the bombardment of fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the confederate states army. The battle of fort Sumter was the first battle of the American civil war. Fort Sumter is historically significant because it is the place where the first battle of the American civil war was fought. -
Battle of Antietam
The battle was a battle of the American civil war, fought on September 17,1862. The battle of Antietam is considered the bloodiest day in history of American war, with over 23,000 soldiers wounded , killed, or missing. The union victory at Antietam resulted in president Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation proclamation on sep. 22,1862 -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation freed 0 slaves on January 1,1863. The emancipation proclamation strengthen moral, allowed African Americans to fight in the war on the union side. Lincoln defined the proclamation as a necessary war measure. Lincoln didn't issue the emancipation proclamation sooner because of trying to pacify the border states. -
Battle of Vicksburg
The battle of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American civil war. Union armies had gained two important victories at about the same time, the day after the battle of Gettysburg, union forces defeated confederate forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The battle was fought on July 1st of 1863, and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by union and confederate forces during the American civil war. The confederates were confident they would win the battle because Robert E. Lee just led his army to victory at the battle of Chancellorsville -
Gettysburg address
It is a speech that U.S president Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American civil war at the dedication of the soldiers national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Lincoln wasn’t the keynote speaker. The Gettysburg address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19,1863, declaration of soldiers national cemetery -
Kansas- Nebraska act
The act was passed by the U.S congress on may 30,1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves wheather or not to allow slavery within the borders. The most important result of the act was its language concerning the contentious issue of slavery. -
13th amendment passed
The 13th amendment which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the senate on April 8, 1864, and the house on January 31,1865. The 13th amendment to the U.S constitution, ratified in 1865. The aftermath of the civil war,abolished slavery in the U.S. -
The 14ty amendment passed
The amendment grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S which included former slaves who had just been freed after the civil war. The 14th amendment to the U.S constitution, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S including former slaves and guaranteed all citizens equal protection. -
The 15th amendment passed
The fifteenth amendement to the U.S constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizens race, color, or previous conditions of servitude. The fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the U.S is important because it guarantees voting rights to all American males of all race. -
Pleasure V. Ferguson
Plessy V. Ferguson was a landmark decision of the U.S surpreme court issues in 1896. The importance is that the supreme courts decision made in 1896. The court ruled on the concept of separate but equal and set back civil rights in the U.S for decades to come.