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The Declaration of Independence summarized the colonists' injustice against the British government and their desire for self-governance. -
Ratified in 1788, the United States Constitution is the worlds longest surviving written charter of government. -
The Whiskey Rebellion was a violent tax protest during the presidency of George Washington. The "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. -
The United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. The U.S. doubled its size, expanding the nation westward. -
Separate spheres of influence for the Americas and Europe, non-colonization, and non-intervention, were designed to signify a clear break between the New World and the autocratic realm of Europe. -
This was a remarkable American victory. The British gambled and lost on a forward attack that sent a force of 5,300 against about 4,000 Americans dug into fortified mud and cotton bale earthworks on the east bank of the Mississippi. -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which brought an official end to the Mexican-American War, was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city to which the Mexican government had fled with the advance of U.S. forces. -
A final decision was delivered on March 6, 1857. Eight of the nine justices wrote separate opinions. Seven justices, primarily pro-Southern, followed individual lines of reasoning that led to a shared opinion that, by law, Dred Scott was still a slave. Chief Justice Roger B. -
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. -
The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought along the ridges, steep bluffs, and ravines of the Little Bighorn River, in south-central Montana on June 25-26, 1876.