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Treaty of Paris
The treaty of Paris granted independence.The treaty was negotiated between the United States and Great Britain. This treaty is named for the city in which it was negotiated and signed. -
Fort Sumter Picture
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Civil War PIcture
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Civil War
It was fought to keep the south from leaving the union. During this time in the north slavery inslave was a major part. This began in Fort Sumter -
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Battle of Fort Sumter
The island of ort Sumter was where the first shots were fired to start to war. This was the first cenfederate victory of the war. The attack on fort sumter was important because it showed that the confederates were ready to fight nad could win against the union. -
Battle of Antietam
This battle was called the bloodiest DAY because 32,000 men lost there lives. This war only lasted one day. During the war the Confederates retreated and gave Presidant Lincoln to vistory. -
Battle of Chancellorsville Picture
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Battle of Chanceorsville
Though Hooker still held numerical superiority, he did not press this advantage, instead falling back to defensive positions. When Lee once again split his forces and attacked, Hooker was forced to retreat across the Rappahannock River.After the war was over, the confederate had taken the victory. -
Bull Run
This was the 1st battle of the Civil War. When they were fighting the North realized that the battle would not be easy. This engagement began when about 35,000 Unions Troops marched from the federal capital to Washington DC. -
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Sherman March
This event crushed the Confederates hope and ruined everything that they had owned. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
Sand Creek Massacre
U.S troops were led by Colonel John Chivington. This massacre slaughtered between 150-500 Cheyenne including women and children. The massacre rooted in to long conflict for control of the Great Plains. -
The south is destroyed
After the war was over the south was destroyed. Many of the factories, railroads, and farmland in the south was destroyed. The rebuilding of the south was called reconstruction. -
Lincoln is assissinated
Lincoln was assassinated while he was watching a play. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. After he was shot he died when they were trying to revive him. After he was assassinated Andrew Johnson became president. -
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Spanish-American War Picture
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American Imperilasm
American imperialism is the economic, military and cultural philosophy which states that the United States, either directly or indirectly, affects and controls other countries or their policies. First popularized during the presidency of James K. Polk, the concept of an American Empire. -
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Spanish-American War
The Spanish-American war was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended the Spanish colonial rule in America. The war originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain. After Spain abolished slavery in Cuba in 1886, americans inversticated millions in Cuban Sugar. -
Battleship of Maine destoryed
The United States battleship was blown up it killed 260 men on board. When the battle ship blew up they found out that there was a fire and it acidently blew up. But the newspaper still blamed it Spain. -
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Boxer rebellion
The boxers were a secret group that rioted in 1900. Foreign troops were called in to put down this Boxer Rebellion. Societes were determined to rid china of these foregin devils. -
Boxer Rebellion Picture
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Platt Amerndment
In 1901 the Cuban Constitutional Convention agreed to the terms of the Platt Amendment. The Platt Amendment stipulated the conditions for U.S. intervention in Cuban affairs and permitted the United States to lease and buy land. The amendment got its name from Orville Platt, the Republican senator from Meriden, Connecticut, who presented it to Congress. -
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WW1
World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918.Tensions had been brewing throughout Europe–especially in the troubled Balkan region of southeast Europe–for years before World War I actually broke out. By the time the war was over and the Allied Powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people soldiers and civilians alike were dead. -
Spanish surrenders to the US
In 1989 Spain decided to surrender to the US. The Spanish fleet was destroyed off Santiago by U.S. warships under Admiral William Sampson. The repressive measures that Spain took to suppress the guerrilla war, such as herding Cuba’s rural population into disease-ridden garrison towns, were graphically portrayed in U.S. newspapers and enflamed public opinion. -
Rough Riders
The most famous of all the units fighting in Cuba, the "Rough Riders" was the name given to the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt resigned his position as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in May 1898 to join the volunteer cavalry. The original plan for this unit called for filling it with men from the Indian Territory, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma.
