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Battle of Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexington and Concord was the start of the Revolutionary War where the British raided the American colonies. Thomas Paine rode around on a horse and alerted the colonists. There was a stand off between the two before shoots were fired and started the war. British Victory. -
Battle of Saratoga
This was the Turning point of the war. Where the french and the Spanish joined the american forces to help defeat the British.The french provided military training and modernized weapons. The Battle of Saratoga was the first win for the colonist. -
Battle of Yorktown
This was the battle that ended the War. The British were being overwhelmed by the number of the American military. The British surrendered during Yorktown because citizens in Great Britain were revolting cause they were fight there own people. After we signed the treaty of Paris we gained our independence from the British. -
Northwest Ordinance
The part of landed was the start of the manifest destiny. The Second Continental Congress was the ones who acquired the piece of land through the declaration. -
Alien & Sedition Acts
These acts was put in place to cover a broader range of offenses. It stop speech and expression against the war effort in a negative light. These powers also gave the government the right to deport foreigners . Also made it harder for new immigrants to vote. -
Virgina and kentucky Resolutions
James Madison hoped that other states would register their opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Kentucky Resolutions went further then the Madison's Virginia Resolution and said the states had the power to nullify unconstitutional federal laws. -
Marbury v. Madison
This case the U.S Supreme Court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional, that established Judaical Review. John Marshall the Che if Justice was the founder of Constitutional law. -
Louisiana Purchase
In 1803 Thomas Jefferson wanted to expand the belief of Manifest Destiny. They wanted to expand westward so they bought the Louisiana Purchase From Napoleon of France. But Jefferson also thought it was unconstitutional. due to his interpretation of the Constitution. -
Missouri Compromise
Was a effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri's admission as a state in slavery would be permitted. at the time the U.S contained twenty two states evenly divided between slave and free states. -
Monroe Doctrine
This Doctrine established by James Monroe . Declared against the foreign colonization, or intervention in the Americans, Untied States wanted to remain neutral in European Wars. -
Nullification crisis
South Carolina adopted the ordinance to nullify the tariff acts and label them as unconstitutional. Despite sympathetic voices from other Southern States. -
Texas Annexation
Congress passed a "Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States" and Texas was admitted it to the Union as the 28th state. The Texas border dispute with Mexico quickly led to the Mexican-American War during the presidency of James Polk. -
Oregon Treaty
This agreement with the U.S and British to give the Americans Oregon after the U.S treated them. -
Mexican Cession
The Treaty recognized Texas as a U.S. State, and ceded and large chunk of land so the U.S went to war with Mexico and won and gained the bottom half of the U.S. -
Compromise of 1850
A package of five separate bills passed by the U.S Congress. This defused the four year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during he Mexican American War. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Passed by the U.S Congress. Allowed people in the territores of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether if they wanted to be a free or slave state. This was the cause of Bleeding Kansas. -
Bleeding Kansas
The event where democrats and republicans met in Kansas to determine whether it would be a slave or free state and turning into a brawl which gives the name bloody Kansas. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
Confederate forces at Charleston, South Carolina, demanded the surrender of the Union garrison of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The bombardment of Fort Sumter was the opening engagement of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Bull Run
This was the first major battle of the Civil war which resulted in Confederate Victory. -
Battle of Antietam
It was one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War and remains the single bloodiest day in American history with over 23,000 casualties. Abraham Lincoln used this Union Victory to make his Emancipation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
This Document freed all slaves in rebellion states and the reason he did it in rebellion states cause he didn't wanna lose the states that hasn't seceded. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee converged on Vicksburg on the Mississippi River, investing the city and trapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton. The city was located on a high bluff, and Union occupation of the town was critical to control of the strategic river. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. More than 50,000 men fell as casualties during the 3-day battle, making it the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. -
Gettysburg address
Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. -
13th Amendment
The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "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." -
14th Amendment
This amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Plessy v. Ferguson
was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".