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marbury madison decision establishes judicial review
On this day in 1803, the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Marshall, decides the landmark case of William Marbury versus James Madison, Secretary of State of the United States and confirms the legal principle of judicial review–the ability of the Supreme Court to limit Congressional power by declaring legislation unconstitutional–in the new nation. -
The war of 1812
A war between the americans and the british -
Missouri compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted -
Antartica is discovered
The continent of antartica was discovered -
Mexico won its independence from Spain
Mexico fought against and defeated the spanish army -
US and russia settle Northwest land claims
Russian America was the name of the Russian colonial possessions in the Americas from 1733 to 1867. -
Joseph smith began preaching morman
Joseph began to teach his practices of mormanship -
McCormick paper is patented
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Joseph smith killed by angry mob
people became angry with Joseph and his practices and killed him -
12,00 mormans make a trek the largest single migration
The mormans leave in hopes to find somewhere better -
Mormans reached the Great salt lake
the mormans went off to find somewhere and they finally found it -
Mexico's leader signed the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The mexicans signed a treaty declaring peace between them and america -
The gold rush
Lots of people went to the west to seeif they could find gold -
Compromise of 1850
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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, -
Kansas Nebraska act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery -
Dred scott Vs. Sanford
was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, -
Lincoln Douglas debate
The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate -
John Brown raid at Harpers Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia -
south carolina secedes
South Carolina Secedes and becomes a slave state