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Territorial war between the French and the British in the North American Continent
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Boundary line set by the British to ban the American colonists to travel west of the Appalachians
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Tax from the British on all printed materials on the American colonies
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A law that stated that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain
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British Policy that enabled a monopoly for the Dutch East India on selling tea in the colonies which made it harder for the colonists to find cheaper tea
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The colonists direct response to the Tea Act where they threw over 300 crates of British Tea into the Boston harbor
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Written by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence was a document that declared that the American colonies were independent from Britain and is it's own country -
A series of articles that would help establish the functions of a national government for the new country of America written in 1776 and officially ratified in 1781
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The Treaty of Paris was a treaty signed to give all of the French Canadian land to Britain except for 2 islands and all of the French land east of the Mississippi River which became the border between the colonies and Louisiana which Spain gave to France after giving up Florida to Britain -
Established a government in the Northwest territories and outlined the process for admitting new states to the union
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A convention where delegates from every state other than Rhode Island gathered Philadelphia to at first amend the articles which turned into writing the constitution
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Each state was given 6 months to vote on the new constitution which started with Delaware being the first state to ratify it in December of 1787 and New Hampshire being the 9th state to ratify it in June of 1788 which ended any government under the articles
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When France offered their Louisiana territory, Thomas Jefferson accepted for $15,000,000 effectively doubling the size of the US offering more farmland and the New Orleans port -
The Indian Removal Act, signed by president Andrew Jackson in 1830 which effectively forced many Native American tribes to be relocated and out of their homes which led to the Trail of Tears which was a period of forced relocation of southern natives which had devastating consequences for the natives. Over 100,000 natives were forced to leave and around 15,000 died
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America wanted to expand into California and New Mexico but Mexico refused to sell them. The president then sent troops to a disputed area of the Texas and Mexico border, then declared war against Mexico. It resulted in Mexico losing and ceding 1/3 of its territory to the US including Utah, California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada
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Fugitive Slave Act strengthened, California became a free state, Utah and New Mexico got to vote, and DC slave trade was abolished -
Two new territories were created, Kansas and Nebraska. Use popular sovereignty for slavery. Failed because people from Missouri tried to vote for slavery in Kansas.
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Supreme court decision that congress can't ban slavery from federal government. Enslaved people can never be citizens
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This was the election that Abraham Lincoln won. He managed to win without any southern state.
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The war between the northern and southern US states. Mainly based on the issue of slavery.
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Issued by Abraham Lincoln, it was meant to free all of the slaves of the USA however only freed some slaves from the rebellion states
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The 13th Amendment, passed on January 31st, 1865, would abolish all slavery in the United States of America