3rd Quarter Major US History II Events

  • Haitian Independence

    Dessalines declared independence and renamed it Haiti. Haiti then emerged as the first black republic in the world, and the second nation in the Western Hemisphere to win its independence from a European Power.
  • Congress of Vienna

    This was an international conference to agree the settlement of Europe after the Napoleonic wars. All of the major european powers attended. it was dominated by Prussia, Russia, Britain, Austria, and France.
  • The End of the Franco-Prussian War

    The Franco-Prussian War of a humiliating defeat of Louis Napoleon's second empire of France. It ended by the treaty of the Frankfurt Am Main is signed. The signing marked the decisive entry of a newly unified German State on the stage of European Power politics.