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Mexican American War
•The War was between The United States of America and the United Mexican States.
•The Mexican leader Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna declared Texas part of its Northeastern province and had Mexican Forces attack American Forces
•The war lasted from April of 1846 to February of 1848.
•The war was fought in present day Texas.
•The mexican american war was another major shaping war of american history.
•The Mexican American war completely acquired texas from Mexico. -
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U.S. History
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The Seven Years War Begins
The seven years war involved every large European power of the time and covered five continents.
The war was split by two major forces led by the kingdoms of G.B. and France
The Seven years war spanned from May of 1756 to February of 1763.
The war spanned across Europe, the Americas, West Africa, India, and the Philippines.
I Chose this event because it was a major battle in the history of the country.
Conflict shapes every kind of civilization and without it disputes would be vastly different. -
Boston Massacre
•British Army and a Boston Mob
•Boston Massacre happened when a mob in boston verbally and physically abused some british soldiers and they opened fire killing 5 and injuring 6
•March 1770
•Boston Massachusetts
•The British kept taxing the colonies in every way possible and the people of boston started to revolt when the british opened fire -
Cherokee American Wars
•Cherokee Native Americans and The Americans of the Frontier
•Cherokee American Wars were a series of raids campaigns and skirmishes between the Cherokee and The Americans on the Frontier.
•1776 to 1795
•The old southwest
•was part of the aftermath of the French and Indian War. -
The Battle of Long Island
•The United Stated, Great Britain and respective allies.
•The Battle of Long island was the first major Battle fought since The U.S. Declared Independence.
•August 27th 1776
•Long island New York
•The battle helped get Britain to accept the independence of its colonies.
•The Battle was the largest battle of the Revolutionary war. -
Signing of Articles of Confederation
•The second Continental Congress
•Articles of confederation was used by congress to govern the states
•November 15th 1777
•United States
•Was the first document governing the united states
•The articles gave the federal government its power -
Bank Of North America Adopted
•Alexander Hamilton and Bank of North America
•The Bank of north america opened in 1781
•January of 1781
•Pennsylvania
•The Bank of North america is now Present day Wells Fargo
•Without Banks it would be a lot harder to manage and transfer currency -
Ratification of Articles of Confederation
•The 13 colonies
•The Ratification of the Articles of confederation took quite some time because all of the states had to unanimously ratify it.
•February 2nd 1781
•United States Of America
•The articles initially founded the governing power of the country
•The articles gave the government its power and took so long to ratify completely because Maryland would not ratify it. -
Signing of The Treaty of Paris
•Representatives of United States and Representatives of King George The Third.
•The Treaty Paris ended The Revolutionary war
•September 1783
•Paris France
•was part of the us becoming completely independent
•The Treaty of Paris ended The Revolutionary war making Great Britain Recognize the United States' Independence. -
Northwest Indian War
•The United States allied with the chickasaw and choctaw indians fought the Confederacy
•The Northwest Indian war gave the United States Occupation of the northwest Territory.
•1785-1795
•The Northwest Territory
•Was a big part in expanding the country.
•The Northwest Indian war gave the United States Control of A major amount of land it now owns. -
Shays Rebellion
•The Federal militia and a rebellion led by Daniel shays
•Shays Rebellion was fought over the articles of confederation leading to the constitutional convention
•August 1786-June 1787
•Massachusetts
•sparked The Constitution
•if the Constitutional convention never started, we would be without out main ruling document of the country. -
Constitutional Convention
•James Madison and Alexander Hamilton led convention
•Constitutional convention replaced the Articles of confederation as governing document
•May 1787-September 1787
•Pennsylvania State House
•Was a major Part in founding our modern Government
•Wrote The Constitution outlining our modern government -
Signing of the Constitution
•39 Delegates representing 12 states
•Signing of the US Constitution was when the states signed the major outlining document for our modern government
•September 17th 1787
•Pennsylvania State House
•The Constitution founded the government our country used and still uses to this day 231 years later
•Was When the main document founding our government was agreed upon by the states -
First United States Presidential Election
•George Washington and John Adams
•The First presidential election set how we vote for our contry's leader every four years
•December 1788- January 1789
•United States Of America
•The First Election Made Put Our first Leader in place
•The First presidential election set the example on how our presidential elections run today -
Bill of Rights Ratification
•Federalists and Anti Federalists
•Bill of Rights Ratification was when the 10 Amendments were added to the constitution
•Created September 25th 1789 ratified December 15th 1791
•Philadelphia
•Without the Bill of Rights, we would not have our freedoms of speech, religion, right to bear arms ETC. laid out for us and they could be more easily infringed
•Altered the Constitution to write down the rights everyone should have so they are clarified. -
The War of 1812
•The War of 1812 involved the United States And United Kingdom and all of their allies.
•The War of 1812 was fought over naval blockades stopping trade between the U.S. and France.
•The war lasted from June of 1812 to February of 1815.
•The War of 1812 was another war fought against someone part of the british.
•Wars shaped american history and were fought for major rights, and solved certain disagreements. -
The American Civil War
•The Union and Confederate Forces.
•The American Civil War was fought over the enslavement of African Americans and broke out when secessionists attacked fort strong of south carolina.
•April of 1861-May of 1865.
•most of the east coast of the country.
•yet another large important war changing a big part of the country.
•The Civil war ended the enslavement of African Americans but did not stop segregation.
