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American Revolutionary War
Started April 19th 1775, and ended September 3rd 1783. This was the start of the feud between America and Great Britian. This war lasted 8 years and was one of the longest wars ever recorded. -
Declaration of Independance
Approved on July 4th 1776, and signed on August 2nd 1776. it was the first document of America. This was where the founding fathers signed their signatures to make America united. -
Louisiana Purchase
It was purchased on April 30th 1803 from France. It sold for 15 million dollars. It consisted of 827,000 miles of land. This was the first major piece of land purchased in the United States. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Great Britain from June 1812 to the spring of 1815. -
California Goldrush
The Gold Rush was one of the most significant events in California history. It brought people from all over the United States and the world to search for gold. -
Compromise of 1850
In 1850 California asked to be admitted to the union. The Missouri Compromise had cut California. Congressmen argued over whether Califoria should enter the war as a free or slave state. Henry Clay, the man who worked out the Missouri Compromise, came out of retirement to try to work out another Compromise. The new agreement was called the compromise of 1850. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraksa Act overturned the Missouri Compromise's use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory and instead, using the principle of popular sovereignty, decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act was a bill that became a law on May 30, 1854, by which the U.S. Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. -
Formation of Confederate States
During the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America consisted of the governments of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860-61.Convinced that their way of life, based on slavery, was irretrievably threatened by the election of President Abraham Lincoln (November 1860), the seven states of the Deep South (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas) seceded from the Union during the following months. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
ON April 12, 1861, General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opene fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. -
The Battle of Antietam
The Army of Potomac, under the command of George McClellan, mounted a series of powerful assaults against Robert E. Lee's forces near Sharpsburg Maryland. -
The 13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially abolished slavery in America, and was ratified on December 6, 1865, after the conclusion of the American Civil War. The amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction"
