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Battle Of Lexington and Concord
The first Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American revolutionary war. The British commander in Boston had heard of supplies of powder and weapons being kept by patriots. -
Declaration Of Independence
It declared independence. A statement adopted by the second continental congress. Made sure everyone had the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness -
Battle of Saratoga
The main turning point of the revolutionary war. -
Battle of Yorktown
The French are helping the continental army with men, weapons and warships. The americans and the French will corner the British on a small peninsula and bombard them with cannon fire. The British will surrender and end the American Revolution -
Northwest Oridinance
Adopted by the second continental congress. Provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory and listed a bill of rights. Added 6 new states. It was also passed under the articles of confederation. -
Alien & Sedition Acts
Made it illegal for anyone to say anything "false , scandalous, and malicious". It meant to weaken the republican party. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. -
Marbury v Madison
Established the principle of judicial review , the power of the federal courts to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional. Helped exemplify the US system of "checks and balances. Also known as necessary proper clause. -
Louisiana Purchase
Acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France. Added 13 states. Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States. -
Missouri Compromise
A settle dispute between slave and free states, contained several laws passed during 1820-1821. The Missouri compromise was repealed by the Kansas Nebraska act. -
Monroe Doctrine
A united states policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning. Great Britain supported this policy. Written and negotiated by Adams. -
Nulification Crisis
Was caused by the introduction of a series of protective tariffs. Confrontation between the state of south Carolina and the federal government in 1832 over the former attempt to declare null and void within the state federal tariffs. -
Texas Annexation
It led quickly to war with mexico in 1846. -
Mexican Cession
Refers to lands surrendered of ceded to the united states by mexico at the end of the Mexican war. -
Oregon Territory
Dispute between the U.S and Britain was settled with the signing of the Oregon territory. -
Compromise of 1850
A package of five separate bills passed by the United States congress. For the north it admitted California as a free state, for the south stronger fugitive slave law. Slave trade was outlawed in Washington D.C. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. The act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36'30. -
Bleeding Kansas
small civil war fought between proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas under the doctrine of popular sovereignty. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The first battle in the civil war. It was known as the bloodiest war because nobody died. The confederates won the battle. -
Battle of Bull Run
First major battle of the civil war and resulted in a confederate victory. -
Battle of Antiem
Also called the battle of sharpsburg a decisive engagement in the American Civil war. Was one of the greatest confederate threats to Washington D.C. -
Emancapation Proclamation
A presidential proclamation and executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln. It declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are henceforward shall be free. It applied only to states that had seceded from the united states leaving slavery untouched. -
Battle of Vicksburg
Also called the siege of Vicksburg, was the culmination of a long land and naval campaign by union forces to capture a key position during the American civil war. -
Battle of Gettysburg
A union victory that stopped confederate general robert e lee second invasion of the north. Bloodiest battle of the american civil war -
Gettysburg address
A speech that Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War. -
13th Amendment
This amendment was passed by congress. This amendment formally abolished slavery. -
14th Amendment
This amendment grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the united states which included former slaves. One of the reconstruction amendments. It forbids any state to deny any person life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -
15 Amendement
Granted African American men the right to vote. Was the third and last of the reconstruction amendments. -
Plessy v Ferguson
A landmark decision of the united states supreme court. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities. A doctrine that came to be known as separate but equal. It gave constitutional sanction to laws designed to achieve racial segregation.