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Battle of Lexington & Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, Kicked off the American Revolution War 17775-83 Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. -
Battle of Saratoga
The battle of saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. The scope of the victory is made clear by a few key facts on October 17, 1777, 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms. -
Battle of Yorktown
The significance of the conflict was that Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British of Yorktown. The Battle of Yorktown ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Northwest Ordinance
Slavery prohibited in the Northwest Ordinance Territory. Free African Americans did not have the same rights as whites- except to legally marry.Last hired and first fired- did the last attributive jobs. De facto segregation was practiced in the North.South African Americans could not vote.Some freedmen, mostly artisans craftsmen who skills were highly desired and they live in cities where jobs opportunities where better. -
Alien & Sedition Acts
The Alien Act: Restricted the activities of foreign residents in the U.S. and their attempt at citizenship.
The Sedition Act:Restricted freedom of speech in the United States,particularly in response to the XYZ Affair and outlawed any false,scandalous and malicious writing against congress or the president, and made it illegal to conspire to oppose any measure or measures of the government. -
Virginia and Kentucky Resolution
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison pen the Virginia & Kentucky resolution.The legislatures in Kentucky and Virginia look the position that the Alien and the Sedition Acts were infringing upon state rights and thus were unconstitutional. -
Marbury v. Madison
They established the principle of judicial review which says that the supreme court has the authority to interpret the constitution specifically,in this case to overturn a law passed by congress. this differed from Thomas Jefferson's belief that the congress should interpret the constitution.John Marshall was a federalism he wanted a strong central government and he had an loose National Bank and his economic development was constitutional his strict/loose construction was commerce. -
Louisiana Purchase
president Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory through the Louisiana Purchase treaty from France. This happened because Napoleon needed money to finance the french revolution. New territories become states on equal terms as the original 13 colonies.This is evidence of the spread of democracy. Constitutionality- relating to whether or not something is constitutional.Precedent- Sets a basic or standard for something else. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of Soldier's National Cemetery, a cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. -
Missouri Compromis
Missouri was admitted as a slave state,Maine as a free state,and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase. -
Monroe Doctrine
A statement of foreign policy issued by president James Monroe in 1823, declaring that the United States would not tolerate intervention by European Nations in the affairs of nation in the Americas -
Nullification Crisis
This was the scene in 1832, when South Carolina adopted the Ordinance to nullify the tariff acts and label them unconstitutionally. Despite sympathetic voices from other Southern states, South Carolina found itself standing alone. -
Texas Annexation
The Texas annexation was the 1845 annexation of the republic of Texas into the United states of America, Which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29,1845. The republic of Texas declared independence from the republican of Mexico on March 2, 1836. -
Oregon Treaty
The Oregon Treaty of 1846, also known as the Washington Treaty, was signed between Great Britain and the United States on June 15,1846,in Washington, D.C. -
Mexican Cession(treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
The war officially ended with the February 2, 1848 signing in Mexico of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of Present day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Whyoming. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850,which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free state on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854,it allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north. -
Bleeding (bloody Kansas)
Bleeding Bloody Kansas or the border war was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slaves in the proposed state of Kansas. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War. The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson's small union garrison in the unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina had been preceded by months of siege-like conditions. -
Battle of bull run
On July 21, 1861,Union and Confederate armies clashed near manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War. The confederate victory gave South a surge of confidence and shocked many in the north, who realized the way would not be won as easily as they had hoped. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam also known as Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 2862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac.. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Ending slavery was not a goal. That changed on September 22, 1862, when president Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that slaves in those states or parts states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863. -
Battle of vicksburg
the battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi, also called the Siege of Vicksburg, was the culmination of a long land and naval campaign By Union forces to capture a key strategic position during the American Civil War. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg, fought in July 1863, was a Union victory that Stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. More than 50,000 men fell as casualties during the 3-day battle, making it the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. -
13th Amendment passed
It was Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865 and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States. -
14th Amendment passed
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868 granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States including former slaves and guaranteed all citizens equal protection of the laws. -
15th Amendment passed
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution 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)
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S.,Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the separate but equal doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks.