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Battle of Lexington & Concord
These battles were the first battles of the Revolutionary war. They happened in the year of 1775. They happened because the British commander in Boston had heard of supplies of powder and weapons being kept by the patriots in the town of Lexington & Concord. -
Battle of Saratoga
His surrender to American forces at the Battle of Saratoga marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The victory was made clear in the year of 1777, 5895 British and Hessian troops surrendered. -
Battle of Yorktown
The significance of the conflict was that cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown. The British surrender which ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Northwest Ordinance
It is one of the most important acts that laid the basis for the government of the Northwest Territory and for the admission of it's constituent parts as states into the union. -
Alien & Sedition Act
It is a series of laws that were passed by the federalist congress and was signed into the law by President Adams, all the laws had the power to expel foreigners and they were also making it very hard for the immigrants to vote. -
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
Political statements that drafted in 1783 & in 1799 in which they both took the positions which led that to the federal Alien & Sedition Acts which were unconstitutional. -
Marbury V. Madison
The most important case in the supreme court and it also was the first U.S. Supreme Court case to apply the principle of judicial review and the power of the federal court to avoid conflict with the constitution. -
Louisiana Purchase
It gave the U.S. control of the Mississippi River and New Orleans which were used by farmers to ship their crops and get paid. -
Mississippi Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in congress between slave and free states, it was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy statement spheres of European and American influence. The U.S. promised them that will stay out of European business and told the Europeans to stay out of the Western Hemispheres business. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis erupted when the South Carolina legislature passed on ordinance Tariffs in the year between 1828. It declared the within state borders of South Carolina. -
Texas Annexation
The United States and the Texas Annexation were significant, it led to war with Mexico in 1846. The United States got control of the American Southwest and California through the Treaty of Guadalupe in 1848. -
Oregon Territory
The U.S. and Great Britain came into the Treaty in the year of 1846 and they came to an agreement that they divide the Territory along the 49th parallel and gave Great Britain all of Vancouver Island. -
Mexican Cession (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed in the year of 1848 and ended the Mexican - American war in approval of the United States, and Mexico also gave up all claims to Texas. -
Compromise of 1850
It allowed California to be admitted as a free state and the admission of New Mexico & Utah Territory with slavery was left to the decision of the people in relation to popular sovereignty on slavery. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
It was passed by the U.S. congress in the year of 1854. It allowed people in the territories of the Kansas and Nebraska to decide weather or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36 30'. -
Bleeding (Bloody) Kansas
The period of violence during the settling of Kansas territory. Violence soon erupted as both factions fought for control. Abolitionist John Brown led anti - slavery fighters in Kansas before his famed raid on Harper's Ferry. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
It was the first battle of the American Civil War. The confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson's Small Union garrison in the unfinished fort in the habor in Charleston, S.C. had been preceded by months of serge - like conditions. -
Battle of Bull Run
In the year of 1861 the Union and confederate armies content hear Manasses junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American War. The first victory gave the South a rush of confidence and shocked many in the North, who realized the war would not be won as easily as they had hoped. -
Battle of Antietam
The union victory as Antietam resulted in President Abraham Lincoln issuing his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in the year of 1862. -
Emancipation Proclamation
It led the way total abolition of slavery in the U.S. The aim of the war changed to include the freeing of slaves in addition to preserving the union. -
Battle of Vicksburg
They lost in many ways that were more important to the war. The union forces had complete control of the Mississippi Rive and had in effort cut the confederacy in two. Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas were now isolated from the rest of the South. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Union victory that stopped confederate General Robert E. Lee's second involsion of the North. More than SC, ... men fell as victims during the 3 battle making it the bloodiest battle. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in the year of 1863 in dedication of solider's National Cemetery, a cemetery for union solider's that was killed in the battle during the war. -
13th Amendment Passed
It created a constitutional amendment that banned slavery in all of the American states. -
14th Amendment Passed
To the constitution, ratified in 1868 granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. including former slaves, and guaranteed all citizens "equal protection of the laws." -
15th Amendment Passed
Protects the rights of Americans to vote in elections to elect their leaders. It not only gave African Americans the right to vote but also allowed the most African Americans in history to be elected into public office. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
The court ruled on the concept of 'separate but equal' and set back civil rights in the U.S. for decades to come.