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the slaves would run away at night and hid in peoples houses by day this was called the underground railroad
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The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege,
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indians forced off there land by the U.S
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was an escaped slave who started the underground railroad
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Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was military governor of pre-admission Florida (1821),
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The term manifest destiny first appeared in print in July 1845 in the " Democratic Review." Journalist John L. O'Sullivan supported the United ...
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one of the major events leading to the Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) was signed on February ...
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a minner struck gold so every one went to california to try to make it as a rich man
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was a group of five bills that were intended to stave off sectional strife that would eventually lead to the Civil War.
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In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to show slavery as a thing so cruel and unjust
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A settlement was made between the two countries known as the Gadsden Purchase, but diplomatic tension followed. In 1853, the United States negotiated with ...
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A settlement was made between the two countries known as the Gadsden Purchase, but diplomatic tension followed. In 1853, the United States negotiated with ...
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of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, ...
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Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were held during the 1858
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On July 21, 1861 the First Battle of Bull Run occurred. It was the first real major conflict of the American Civil War. A Union army, consisting of 28000 ...
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When President Lincoln planned to send supplies to Fort Sumter, he alerted the state in advance, in an attempt to avoid hostilities. South Carolina, however, feared a trick; the commander of the fort, Robert Anderson, was asked to surrender immediately. Anderson offered to surrender, but only after he had exhausted his supplies. His offer was rejected, and on April 12, the Civil War began with shots fired on the fort. Fort Sumter eventually was surrendered to South Carolina.
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The battle's name, Shiloh, came from the name of a small, whitewashed church around which much of the early fighting took place.
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also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South), fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, ...
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was the speach that aberham lincon gave
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the speach that declared all men and wemon free
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fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was the battle with the largest number of casualties
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is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme Ku Klux Klan
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was the 17th President of the United States (1865–1869). Following the murder of President Abraham ...
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February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865 ...
