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Significant Events in United States History
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French and Indian war
French and Indians fought the British and Americans. The America won,which gave them more confidence to fight. -
American Civil War
Fought 1861-1865, the American Civil War was the result of decades of sectional tensions between the North and South. Focused on slavery and states rights. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act, was a revenue raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764. -
Stamp Tax Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London -
Townshend Acts
The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule -
Boston Tea Party
It was a defining event in American history, the reaction to British oppression and ultimately, the spark that ignited the American Revolution. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere is remembered for his historic Midnight Ride warning colonists of the impending British Army attack. He also had an illustrious career as an engraver, silversmith, watchmaker and soldier. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revo War.They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay -
The declartion of Independence
Proved America was independent and was a free country. -
Battle of Saratoga
The beattle of Saratoga started in Bemis heights,New York. Bemis Heights overlooks the Hudson River. The battle started on September 19, 1777. The british were taking over at first but the Americans soon came back. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was the first written constitution or plan of government of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown (1781) was the last major battle in the American Revolution. British general Cornwallis was against French general Marquis de Lafayette and General George Washington. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 (along with the companion Treaty of Hubertusburg) ended the Seven Years’ War, the American counterpart of which was the French and Indian War. -
First president of USA
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. -
Louisanna purchase
Doubled size of North America. -
Missouri Compromise
It was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro slavery and anti slavery factions in the United States Congress involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. -
Mayflower Compact
It was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, later together known to history as the Pilgrims, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean aboard the Mayflower. -
Nullifcation Crisis
South Carolina decides they do not want to pay tarriffs. -
13th Amendment
Unlegallized slavery.Abolished it. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, the declartion issued that all people held as slaves held within the rebellious states are to be free.
