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A revenue-raising Act that also allowed British courts to try American smugglers (one of the first acts that was actually imposed and maintained).
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Resulted in the death of five American colonists and the persecution of British soldiers.
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American colonists dumped large amounts of tea into the ocean in defiance against Britain's decision to tax a good as commonly consumed as tea.
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(note: no specific date is given, only the year 1774) The Intolerable Acts decreed that American colonies were not allowed to self-govern, citizens must house British soldiers, and allowed for religious toleration of Catholics.
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Divided western territory horizontally so that land in the north did not have slavery and land in the south did. An attempted compromise between north and south.
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(No specific date) Required all citizens to turn in runaway slaves to the authorities, resulted in mass emigration to Canada.
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Said that popular sovereignty could decide whether or not a state would allow slavery.
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Kansas joins the union as a free state after months of bloody violence.
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First shots of Civil War, southern victory.
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Battle between Robert E, Lee and George McClellan. Major Nothern victory but southern troops were allowed to leave peacefully.
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First major Civil War battle in Virginia.
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McCellan stops Lee's invasion of the North; more than 22,000 soldiers died, injuried, or went missing,
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Congress allows states to begin sending weapons to Britain.
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FDR makes first move towards joining the war.
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Event that immediately prompts American governent to join war.
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US troops are sent to Northern Africa. This is the first occurence of the US' direct involvement in WW2.
