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http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/magna-carta.htmThe Magna Carta is a very important document that King John was forced into signing.To avoid a civil war he signed it and it has influenced many other important documents.In America the Constitution and the bill of rights were influenced by this document.
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http://www.allabouthistory.org/mayflower-compact.htm The Mayflower compact was written to provide a temparary government forr the pilgims. It provided them with equal laws. All 41 men who werre abord the Myflower signed this document.
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http://www.colonialwarsct.org/1643.htm The colonies that were involed in this confedericy were Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven, and Plymouth. It was established not only for trade and other things but because they feared attack from other nations or groups of people. It was weak.
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http://www.constitution.org/bcp/albany.htm In 1754 a group of delegates of the northern states met in where else but Albany, New York.The plan of Union was drafted by Benjamin Franklin.
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http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=498 The French Indian war was also known as the final Colonial War. Took place in Europe. There isn't really an exact date. It was started within the New World.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/8d.asp
The American Revolution ended with this treaty. France lost land and it was given to the British. This included Quebec. Spain also had some land given to them like Louisiana -
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/proc63.htm
The colonies did not like the royal proclamation. In this proclamation it stated that the colonies were no longer able to expand. They were only allowed to stay on the Eastern seabord. -
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312848/suact.htm
The sugar act was put in place due to the fact that England wanted more money to secure the colonies. This clearly was not going to sit well with the colonies. -
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/stampact.htm
The stamp act put a tax on all paper products. Britain put a tax on the paper products becauce they wanted to show that they still had authority over the colonies. -
http://www.ushistory.org/us/10a.asphttp://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sac65.htm
There are two different links here. One is to the actual document and the other is for what it actually was. Colonists said "no taxiation without representation." -
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/townshend.htm
These acts were proposed by a man named Townsend. This was a tax on glass, paint, oil, lead,paper and tea. The colonists did not like this taxation. -
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm
The colonists threw snowballs at the British soldiers. This then led to the shot heard around the world. Still to this day no one can really determine who actually fired the first shot. -
http://www.boston-tea-party.org/
The tea act is what lead to the Boston Tea Party. Britian wanted the colonies to buy their tea that came at a smaller price then the actual tea that they were buying. But the colonists wanted to separate from Britian and they did not like them at all so they dressed up as Indians and threw the tea overboard into the harbor. -
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/congress.htm Congress met for the first time in Carpender's Hall. All of the people who were there were elected by the people.
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http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/congress.htm
The objective of the group was not really that clear. They all agreed that they no longer wanted the King. -
http://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/giveme.cfm
On March 23, 1775 Patrick Henery say his famouse quote of "give me liberty or give me death." During this time Washington said that the colonies were in a state of rebellion. -
http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/real.html
Paul Revere rode into Lexington and concord on his house to warn Samual Adams and John Hancock that the read coats were comming. He unfortunatally was captured by the red coats. -
http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/battledetail.aspx?battle=1
Thsi was one of the first battles fought For the American Revolution. The Britsh troops goals were to capture and distroy military supplies -
http://www.ushistory.org/us/10e.asp When the Second Contenintal congress met they created the olive branch petition. In this peition it said that the colonies wanted a peacful resolution with England.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/11d.asp
At the beginning of the Battle of Bunker hill the American Soldiers went to Breeds Hill insted. The British woke up one moring and there they were. -
http://www.historiclakes.org/Ticonderoga/Ticonderoga.html
Fort Ticonderoga was also called Fort Carillon by the French. It is the spot where America had its first major victory in the Revolutionary war. -
http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/
This document was written by Thomas Paine. It stated that the colonies should break away from England. -
http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=83
Washington had placed cannons on Dorchester heights facing the capital. The British knew that they were going to loose if they didn't evacuate from the capital so they left. -
http://www.wpi.edu/academics/military/abswash.html
In order to capture Trenton he made a military campaign. They crossed the Delawere River...in March... and captured Trenton. -
http://www.ushistory.org/gop/tour_indhall.htm
The decleration was signed on July 4th, 1776. It however was not annouced until July, 8th. It was written by Thomas Jefferson. -
http://www.ushistory.org/paine/crisis/index.htm
The Crisis was written by the same man who worte Common sense. Thomas Paine. In it Paine talks about times that are trying mens souls. -
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/arnold.html
Benedict Arnold betrayed America. He was angry at congress and began to look o become a British soldier, and betray America. -
http://www.ushistory.org/us/11g.asp
The battle of Saratoga was considered the turning point of the American Revolution. The British lost. During this there were Hessians and British soldiers. -
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312848/valleyforge.htm
Vally forge was a camp where Washingtons troops stayed from December of 1777 to June 1778. There was extem hunger during this time and the weather was freezing. -
http://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/usnavy/03/03c.htm
During this time John Paul Jones and other privet boats men sailed around looking for treasures to steal. France was now on America's side. -
http://www.ushistory.org/gov/2b.asp The articals of confederation was written in 1776 but wasn't radified until 1781. This document created a weak central government and gave most of the power to the states.
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http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_yorktown1781.html
This was in Yorktown. In this newspaper artical it says that he surrendered his British troops to french and american troops. -
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/war-for-independence/resources/george-washington-and-newburgh-conspiracy-1783 An annoyonmis letter came and said that the army wanted to be paied. They said in the letter if they didn't get paid than they would not fight aginst Britan and would lay down there arms.
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http://www.ushistory.org/us/11i.asp The treaty of Paris was the end of the American Revelution. During this time the people such as Ben Franklin and John Adam met with the British. In this treaty the British recoginized America as an independent nation(but only as far as the Mississippi river).
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http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/_Topics/history/_Texts/WHISAF/5*.html In 1784 Spain closed the Mississippi River thinking that it wouldbe agood way to try and get farmers tojoin Spanish America. They knew the U.S wasn't strong enough to do much at the time so they closed the mouth of the river. Man named Floridablanca idea.
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http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/seven-ranges/ The Land Ordinance of 1785 was all about a law that congress passed that allowed parts in the Northwest Territory to be sold. The idea during this time waas to sell mile squre portions.
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http://www.vahistorical.org/onthisday/11686.htm The Ordinance of religious freedom was written by Thomas Jefferson. In it it stated that no one in virginia would be prosicuted for their religion. Very imporant document.
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http://theamericanrevolution.org/EventDetail.aspx?event=45 During the Annapolis Convention delegates from 5 states came to talk about problems with trade barrors and other thing such as that.
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http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/ Shays rebellion began in august and the went through to the year of 1786. A group of farmers gathered up. They didn't like how they had to pay in a certain gold coin, that frankly they didn't even really have. They than went and marched all around and went to the courts and threatened to close them down. All in all it proved that Congress wasn't that strong because they couldn't do anything to stop it.
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http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/ The Constitution was signed during this time. It was signed in the same place as the Decleration of independence.
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http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/tp-009/ The Northwest Ordinance of 1776 stated that any new nations added would have equal rights as the origional states. It also outlawed slavery from the northwest states. It established a government for the new nations added aswell.
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http://billofrightsinstitute.org/resources/educator-resources/americapedia/americapedia-constitution/connecticut-compromise/ The Great Compromise is also known as the Connecticut Compromise. It put together the Virginia plan and the New Jersey Plan together. Also it allowed the 3/5 compromise which counted every 5 slaves as 3 people, no vote though.
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http://teachingamericanhistory.org/ratification/ During this time the federilists and the anti fedderlists debated. In the end a bill of rights was created. I'm not quite sure the exact date but that is the correct year. Rhold Island was the last to sign it on May 29 1789.
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http://teachingamericanhistory.org/fed-antifed/timeline-essantifed.html Oct. 5th was when the first artical came out. It talks about the constitution and wether or not youe essintal liberties are secure under the constitution.
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http://teachingamericanhistory.org/fed-antifed/timeline-essfed.html The articals first appeared on Oct. 27 1787. During the artical they talk about how America has the oppertunity to make an important decision. Talks about the things the constitution gives you for example one of them is the true principls of the republican government.
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http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/creating-new-government/timeline-terms/delaware-ratified-constitution Delaware was the first state to ratify the constitution. Link doesn't have much information on it but out of all the states Delaware was the first and Rhold Island was the last. Final vote was 30-0.
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http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/creating-new-government/timeline-terms/massachusetts-ratified-constitution During this time Massachusetts was a little on the fence. But eventually they joined all the other states in ratifing it.
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https://www.nyhistory.org/web/crossroads/convention.htmlNew Hampshire becomes the last needed state to ratify the constitution. Because they ratified it then became law.
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http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/presidential/electoral.html On this day George Washington became the first priesidant of the United States of Ameria.
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http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/winter09/rights.cfmThe first 10 ammendments of the constitution became known as the Bill of rights. There were originally 12 but the first 2 were not ratified.
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http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/billofrightsintro.html The bill of rights was finnally ratifed on that day. This document defined peoples rights due to the new government.
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http://www.constitution.org/cons/virg1798.htm
The Virginia resolution was written in 1798, the Kentucky Resolution was written in 1799. Thomas Jeffersosn helped to create the Virginia Resolution and he created some parts of the Kentucky resolution. -
http://www.teachushistory.org/war-1812-hartford-convention/overview/introduction-students
New England was unhappy about the war of 1812 and refused to raise money for it. They began to question the gov had.They called up a meeting in Oct. 1814. Some people wanted the US constitution to be rewritten. Others wanted the presidants to alternate states. All Virginia except John Adams. -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h511.html
The Missuri compromise was passed in 1820 but the idea was around the time of 1819. This comproise allowed Missuri into the union as a slave state but there was to be no slavery north of the 36 parallel. Also Maine now became a free state and was no longer part of Massachusetts. -
http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/nullification-crisis-/
This tariff was created because Andrew Jakson thought that he would not be able to win the election without it. -
http://www.ushistory.org/us/24c.asp
Nullify means to deprive something of value. South Carolina tried to nullify the tariff propsed by Henery Clay. -
http://www.cfr.org/human-rights/british-slavery-abolition-act-1833/p27124
This was the abolition of slavery in England. This meant that in Britain Canada and other places it was illigal to own another person. -
http://www.pocanticohills.org/amprogress/texas_for_kids.htm
Mexico allowed for people to settle in Texas. Eventually Texas wanted to break away from Mexico and become independent and a part of the US. -
http://millercenter.org/president/polk/essays/biography/3
He was not a very well known canadate. Was presidant during the Mexican war. -
http://wars.findthedata.org/q/24/2017/When-was-the-Mexican-American-War and
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qdm02
This war began over territory issues. It beagan on April 25, 1846 and it wnded in Febuary 2, 1848. -
http://www.ushistory.org/us/30a.asp
The date that I used was when he introduced new legislation that said no form of slavery shall ever exsist in states that were won in the Mexican War. -
http://www.nationalcenter.org/FugitiveSlaveAct.html This law was a result of the compromise of 1850. It said that all slaves that were found that were runaway slaves that anyone who found them would have to bring them back to their owner. If they didn't do this then they would be finned and sent to jail.
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http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/caladmit.html
California was allowed to enter the Union as a free state due to Henry Clay's compromise. -
http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/exhibits/stowe/essay2.html
This book was read all over the world. It told the story of a slave and it explained many problems that they had to faCE. It was an anti-slavery book and many abolitionists used it to show people just how bad slavery was. -
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=28
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http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1476
Proposed by Stephen Douglass. Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide by popular soveranity to decide wheather they wanted slavery or not.. led to bleeding Kansas though. -
http://www.ushistory.org/us/31c.asp
The reason that the Border Riffians attacked Lawerence was becasue of the fact that Lawerence was free. They were anti-slavery. Over 800 soldiers rode in to arrest people in lawerence who were anti slavery and the people of lawerence didn't resist. This resulted in looting and burning of houses and the Free State hotel. The rupublicans tries to get Kansas into the union and the democrats wanted it slave. -
http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=151
Charles Sumner was a member of Congress and was known for speaking out about slavery. He was a strong abolitionist and during aa speech he gave he talked about a Mr. Andrew Butler. He said some things that got this man very angry and this led to him being beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks. -
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/kansas/jbrown.html
This creek is important because it is where John Brown and his people went to three houses and killed people who were pro-slavery. Many people died during this and the ways they were killed were not a pleasnt sight. -
http://www.ushistory.org/gop/origins.htm
The republican party was formed due to the Kansas Nebraska Act. The country was divided due to the 36° 30' parallel, already. Because of these events Northeners feared that the southerners would settle above the parallel so the Republican party was then formed. -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html
This desision was that no blacks could ever become a citizen of the US. It also announced that the Missuri Compromise was unconstitutional. -
http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/constitution-hall/11759
This document was pro slavery. Some people wanted to admit Kansas as a slave state but Stephen Douglass would not pass it.Eventually Kansas was admitted as a free state. -
http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/debates.html
There were many debates between these two presidental canadates. In many of them Lincoln pused Douglass into a corner that would be hard to get out of. Lincoln was against slavery. Douglass was not clear in his campaining wheather or not he was pro or anti slavery, he never told the voters. -
http://www.civilwar.org/150th-anniversary/john-browns-harpers-ferry.html
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html Brown wanted local black slaves to join his supporters. In the end of this Brown was captured and many of his men were killed and wounded. -
http://www.historians.org/projects/SecessionEditorials/Editorials/AugustaDChronicle_02_13_60.htm
It included delegates from 20states. Amung them was a Mr. John Bell. The image here is of him. -
http://www.ushistory.org/us/32d.asp
This election was between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass. Lincoln was a strong abolitionist and was against slavery. He thought that the slaves were real people too and that they deserived to have natural rights. -
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2121
I'm not sure on the exact date that they split but it is in 1860. This is the year when the democratic party splits. -
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/reconstruction.htm
Lincoln's plan for reconstruction allowed for a pardon to people from the confederate states who swore to the Union and the Constitution there were some people this rule didn't apply to. -
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=37
Stated that 50 percent of a states white men had to take a loyalty oath in order to be in the Union again. Lincoln choe not to sign it which was a Pocket Veto. -
http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=112&CRLI=160
The Northeners voted for Lincoln to have another term. No one had been re-elected since Andrew Jackson. -
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3096
This protected former slaves rights and provided them with education. -
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alrintr.html
Lincoln was shot at the theater and died the next day. John Wilkes Booth was the one who killed him. He was there seeing "our American Cousin" Booth shot him at the funniest line in the play.. -
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3096
Anyone who was from the confederate states and took an oath was forgiven he was a southerner and he went easy on the southern states. This made him unpopular. -
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/legal/docs6.html
Black Codes were designed to restrict African American Rights in the south. These things restricted what they were able to do they were the same as Jim Crow laws almost. -
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3096
This amendment abolished slavery. All the states voted for it in december. -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/grant-kkk/
They were a group of people who were unhappy that African Americans had gotten so many rights. This group was created in 1865. -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/activism/ps_1866.htmlhttp://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3096
Gave men of any race, color... the same rights as white men. -
http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/1431
The President at the time, Andrew Johnson, had vetoed the acts but even though he had done so it was still passed. He viewed it as unconstitutional. He believed that it didn't protect the peoples right to life and property. -
http://millercenter.org/president/grant/essays/biography/3
He was the 18th president of the United States. During the civil war he was in charge of the army for the union and he was there when the war ended and Lee surrendered to Grant. -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/grant-impeachment/
He passed a law that he had to approve firings or enlistments. He won his court case by one vote. -
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_14th.html
Said that every citizen of the United States included the newly freed slaves. -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/grant-fifteenth/
Gave African Americans the right to vote -
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/First_African_American_Senator.htm
Hiram Revels was the first African American elected to the senate. -
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_enforce.html
This Act banned the use of terror force or bribery to prevent people from voting because of their race. -
http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/1548
Was first bought in on March 3rd, 1865 but it was abolished on June 28th, 1872. -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/activism/ps_1875.html
Protected all American Citizens regardless of rac color... -
http://sc150civilwar.palmettohistory.org/edu/crisis/SecessionSC1860.htmI'm going to say that after the end of the civil war people started to leave. I cannot find any information about this topic at all.
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http://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/president/ and http://millercenter.org/president/hayes
He was the 19th president of the United States of America.
He secreatly took the oath of office on March 3rd because of "tension" from the election. He saw the end of Reconstruction. -
http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm
"Jim Crow" Laws were laws that allowed for the segragtion of public schools, public places and transportation. -
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/civil_rights.html
The people felt that the civil rights act was unconstitutional and they overturned it because it was unconstitutional. -
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1865-1917/essays/segregation.htm
This was similar to Jim Crow Laws. Everyone was seperate but equal. This meant that African Americans and white people were seperate but everything that white people had the African Americans had the same thing but they were seperate. There were seperate everything, bathrooms, train cars... -
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_plessy.html
Homor Plessey was a man who sat in the "white" car in Louisiana.
when he was told he had to sit in the "colored" car. The date above was the day that he was placed in jail.
