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Britain sets colonies in America
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Kingdom of Great Britain is made
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"Taxation Without Representation"
Colonists say they did not elect representatives so why should they pay taxes, this was due to the Stamp Act of 1712 and tea act. -
French and Indian War Starts
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Proclamation line of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
French and Indian War Ends.
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Boston Massacre
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Articles of Confederation
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American Revolution
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The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. -
U.S. Constitution Ratified
History SiteOn June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the document, and it was subsequently agreed that government under the U.S. Constitution would begin on March 4, 1789. In June, Virginia ratified the Constitution, followed by New York in July. -
George Washington Elected
Wasn't in any political party, but strongly supported the Federalist Party -
Bill Of Rights was Created
The New United States of America Adopted the Bill of Rights
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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Andrew Jackson held council with Indian chiefs requesting them to leave from federal territory -
Floriad Cession (Adams-Onis Treaty)
The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819,[1] also known as the Transcontinental Treaty,[2] the Florida Purchase Treaty,[3] or the Florida Treaty,[4][5] was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. It settled a standing border dispute between the two countries and was considered a triumph of American diplomacy. -
Missouri Compromise
There were an even amount of slave and free states in 1818, Missouri wanted to become a slave state and join the confederacy. This would make the balance between slave and free states unbalanced, so the Missouri Compromise was reached, These were the conditions admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and admitted Maine as a free state, which kept the number of slave and free states equal.
made slavery illegal north of latitude 36° 30’ in the Louisiana Purchase territory, with the except -
American Anti-Slavery Society
This was the time when the abolition group called American Ant-Slavery Society was made, it was created to spread the message of freedom. Many slavery supporters targeted the society and one of the leaders was almost lynched. -
Burning abolitionist literature in Charleston, South Carolina
In 1835 abolitionist literature in Charleston, South Carolina was burned by a mob supporting slavery. Most of these pamphlets were distributed by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan’s American Anti-Slavery Society. -
Pennsylvania Hall burns
On May 17, 1838, A proslavery mob burned down the Pennsylvanian hall in Philadelphia to ashes. It was the location of many abolitionist meeting and was burned down in Philadelphia. -
Gag Rule
Numerous petitions to the government asking them to act on slavery were sent by Abolitionists and the American Anti-Slavery Society. On 1836, the gag rule was created, tabling all petitions sent by abolitionists, making no debate on slavery prominent. -
Texas Annexation
Texas was annexed into America by the president -
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Mexican-American war.
Mexico and America went to war in the 1800s over Texas -
Fugitive Slave Act
This was included in the Compromise of 1850 and required U.S. Marshals and deputies to help slave owners capture escaped slaves, and also denied African Americans to prove their freedom. This made it hard for slaves to escape. Northerners did not want to return slaves, and they felt obligated not to. -
Compromise of 1850
When more land was given to the United States from Mexico, there were debates whether to allow slavery in that land.
Congress developed this comprimise which considered these conditions:
admitted California as a free state
allowed the people living in the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah to vote on whether or not to permit slavery in their territories when they applied for statehood (popular sovereignty)
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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This book was released in 1852 showing the evils of slavery and was the most popular book of the 1900's not counting the bible. It made many people turn into abolitionists and enraged the South just like most abololitionist nature. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois introduced this bill into congress, this got rid of the Missouri Compromise and opened Kansas and Nebraska into slavery by popular sovereignity. Abolitionists were furious about this inquiry. -
Bleeding Kansas
By response to the Kansas-Nebraska act, people moved to Kansas in order to influence the vote count there. Disagreements over slavery turned into violence and resulted to over 200 deaths. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott, a slave, was suing for his freedom in the Supreme Court claiming that since his master had taken him into free lands, he should have been free. The Supreme Court Disregarded and Rejected his case, and decided that no slave could be a U.S. citizen or their offspring, making them not have the right to sue. Also they also ruled that Congress had no right or power to outlaw slavery, and any state could become a slave state if they wanted to. This made overcoming slavery harder. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown and 22 other men had raided Harper's Ferry, Virginia, because they hoped to arm and free slaves. Brown with his raiders captured many citizens and important locations but unfortunately withing 24 hours he was captured and hanged due to numerous violations such as treason. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Many southerners did not react positvely after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. They feared he might try to end slavery. In most southern states he wasn't even in the ballot because they despised him so much. -
Secession
In response to Lincoln's election to President, many states feared that Lincoln might try to end slavery. North Carolina was the first state to secede from the union and by February of 1861 Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. -
Fort Sumter
In Lincoln's presidency, he stated that no state was lawfully allowed to leave the country, but a war would not be fought unless the South provoked the North. But believing that they were their own country, the confederacy began to take control of many government buildings in the south using the example of forts. When the confederates placed an attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, Lincoln placed a call on Federal Troops to retrieve the fort. This event began the civil war.