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Battle of Lexington & Concord
Was fought in Lexington Massachusetts and Concord Massachusetts. The fight was between Great Britain and the u.s colonists, but the people involved were Minutemen , John Parker, and the British troops. It was the 1st battle in the American Revolution. -
Battle of Saratoga
Was fought in Freeman Farm and days later Bemires Heights. And was turning point in the American Revolution. British General John Burgoyne achieved a victory over American forces led by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold. -
Battle of Yorktown
Was fought in Yorktown, Virginia. And was between General George Washington and British General Lord Charles Cornwallis. It ended in victory for the Americans and Britain realizing that the war is just to costly to continue. -
Northwest Ordinance
Confederation Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance. It created a system of government for the Northwest Territory and created a method of how new states from the territory could admit to the union and become a state. -
Alien & Sedition Acts
Who: Adams Administration and Federalist Congress Alien: limits immigration
Sedition: limits freedom of speech -
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Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
Jefferson Madison nullifies the Alien & Sedition Acts -
Louisiana Purchase
A land deal between the U.S and France, which the U.S acquired 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. Secured control of the Mississippi River as a highway for American products to world markets -
Marbury v. Madison
Established the principle of judicial review, which says that the supreme court has the authority to interpret the Constitution. -
Missouri Compromise
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. The United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
Monroe Doctrine
United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. Declaring the Old World and New World had different systems and must remain distinct spheres. -
Nullification Crisis
Sectional crisis during presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. It declared the federal Tariff of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional. -
Mexican Cession (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
Mexican Cession ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. It added 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. -
Compromise of 1850
Five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which were admit California as a free state, stronger fugitive slave law, popular sovereignty Mexican cession, Texas sells land/federal Government assume deist, and abolish slave trade in Washington D.C.. -
Bleeding (Bloody) Kansas
Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned the Missouri Compromise’s and Pro-slavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision.Violence soon erupted as both factions fought for control. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves if slaves would be free within their borders. It was to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
Was fought in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. It was war between Major Robert Anderson (Union) and Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard (Confederacy). Confederate victory, Beginning of the American Civil War. If confederacy didn't attacked Fort Sumter there is a chance that the Confederate States would still exist today. -
Battle of Bull Run
Was fought in the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War. Troops had the upper hand in the beginning, the Confederacy was triumphant. -
Battle of Antietam
Was fought in Antietam Creek, Sharps-burg, Maryland. War between General George McClellan (union) and General Robert e. Lee (Confederacy). The battle’s outcome would be vital to shaping America’s future, and it remains the deadliest one-day battle in all American military history. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. He promoted it as a "military measure" against the Confederacy. It changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Was fought in Vicksburg Mississippi. The fight was between General Ulysses S. Grant (Union) and General John Pemberton (Confederacy). Vicksburg was one of the Union’s most successful campaigns of the war. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Was fought in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by General George G. Meade (Union) and General Robert E. Lee (Confederate) forces during the American Civil War. It involved the largest number of casualties. Union Won. -
Gettysburg Address
A speech that President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. -
13th amendment
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress. -
14th amendment
Grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, which were also slaves who had been freed after the Civil War. It was rejected by Southern states but was ratified by three-fourths of the states. -
15th amendment
Granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Supreme court case that violated the 14th amendment. The state of Louisiana enacted the law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites.
