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From Revolution to Reconstruction
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American Revolutionary War
A successful military rebellion against Great Britain by the 13 colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
13 newly independent sovereign states are no longer part of the British empire and instead officially its own country, the United States. It was drafted by Thomas Jefferson. -
Ratification of Constitution
Faced with threatened treatment as a foreign government, the constitution got ratified by a narrow margin, 2 votes. -
Louisiana Purchase
An area of 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River was bought by the U.S. from the French. -
Indian Removal Act
A law was passed by Congress, while Andrew Jackson was president. It allowed the presidentto negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory, West of the Mississippi River in exchange fopr their homelands. -
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California Gold Rush
Someone found gold and the news brought around 300,000 people looking for gold to California. -
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Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention
Was a conevtion to discuss the social, civil, and religous conditions and rights of women. It was thge first women's rights convention. It was held in Seneca Falls, New York. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement. It also had the effect of repealing the Missouri COmpromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine wherther or not slavery would be allowed by popular sovereignty. -
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Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery Border Ruffians that took place in Kansas.
