7-4-1776 Independence

By Francesca Lingat

  • Independence

  • Date of ratification for consitution

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Missouri compromise

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

    Until 23

  • Texas Independence

  • Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • South Carolina Sessision

  • Battle of Antiem

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    Battle Of Vicksburg

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    Battle of Gettyburg

  • Civil ar End

    It ended at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House.

  • The US in the Philippines

    The battleship USS Maine explodes in Havana Harbor

  • The US in the Philippines

    FIlipinos resume their independence struggle against Spain.

  • The US in the Philippines

    Congress by a vote of 311 to 6 in the House, and 42 to 35 in the Senate, adopts a joint resolution for war with Spain. President McKinley signs it the next day and calls for 125,000 volunteers for 1 year of active duty.

  • The US in the Philippines

    Admiral Dewey destroys the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay

  • The US in the Philippines

    The first US volunteer troops leave San Fran for the Philippines

  • The US in the Philippines

    Jundreds of citizens assemble in Boston to oppose the annexation of the Philippines and organize the Anti- Imperialist movement.

  • The US in the Philippines

    The congress of the First Philippine Republic creates the first republican consitution in Asia

  • The US in the Philippines

    In the Treay of Paris, Spai frees Cuba, cedes Porto Rico and Guam to the US, and sells the Philippines for $20 million
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    The US in the Philippines

    US troops fire the first shots of the war, killing three Filipino soldiers triggering fighting between US troops and Filipino Independence forces

  • The US in the Philippines

    There were over 1,000 engagements between US and Filipino forces in the first year of war

  • The US in the Philippines

    Filipinos switch from conventional to guerilla war

  • The US in the Philippines

    Mark Twain pubishes "to the person sitting in darkness", his satire on US imperialism in the Philippines
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    The US in the Philippines

    Senate Committee on the Philippines chaired by imperialist Republican Henry Cabot Lodge conducts hearings onn the war

  • The US in the Philippines

    President THeodore Roosevelt declares victory in the Philippines but a guerrilla war continues until 1915