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battle of lexington concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.They happened because the British commander in Boston had heard of supplies of powder and weapons being kept by Patriots in the towns of Lexington and Concord. -
battle of saratoga
he Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.he 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 at Yorktown. The British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown ended the American Revolutionary War. -
northwest ordinance
It provided a method for admitting new states to the union from the territory and listed a bill of rights guranteed in the territory.It was important because it protected civil liberties and outlawed slavery in the new territories. -
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
These documents were written by james madison (virginia) and Thomas Jefferson (kentucky).They supported the idea of having more self government and more rights for the state.They opposed the Alien and Sedition Act which extended the powers of the federal national.It was important because madison hoped the other states would register their opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts as beyond the powers given to congress. -
marbury v madison
The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress, (the Judiciary Act of 1789).It was important because is challenged a law that was passed by congress and signed by the president.It set the future for the Supreme Court to decided whether the laws were constitutional or not. -
louisiana purchase
The U.S., under Jefferson, bought the Louisiana territory from France, under the rule of Napoleon, in 1803. The U.S. paid $15 million for the Louisiana Purchase, and Napoleon gave up his empire in North America. The U.S. gained control of Mississippi trade route and doubled its size.It is important because it gave the u.s. control of the Mississippi River and the port city of New Orleans, both of which were used by farmers to ship their crops and get paid. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission to the United States of Maine as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate.The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was a compromise primarily focused on how slavery would be dealt with in the expanding United States. -
monroe doctrine
widely opposed by critics, who argued that the Monroe Doctrine was originally meant to stop European influence in the Americas.was a foreign policy statement originally set forth in 1823 which created separate spheres of European and American influence. The United States promised to stay out of European business and told the Europeans to stay out of the Western Hemisphere's business. -
nullification crisis
he Nullification Crisis was a United States sectional political crisis in 1832–33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government.e 1832 Nullification Crisis was caused by the introduction of a series of protective tariffs. ... The 1828 Tariff of Abominations which sparked the Nullification Crisis was the third protective tariff implemented by the government -
texas annexation
Texas seceded from Mexico and declared independence in response to Mexican abolition of slavery. US annexes Texas because Southern states support Texas slavery. The North feared expansion of slavery and war with Mexico (see Mexican American War).The annexation of Texas amassed a large amount of land for the United States, but caused tensions between the United States and Mexico when finalized -
oregon treaty
This agreement set the boundary between the United States and Canada at the 49th parallel west of the Rocky Mountains, veering around Vancouver Island and then proceeding through the Strait of San Juan de Fuca.Oregon Country was a portion of land between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains in the northwest portion of the present-day United States. In 1818, the United States and Britain agreed to a "joint occupation" of Oregon, allowing citizens of both countries to settle there. -
mexican cession(Treaty of guadulpe hidalgo)
Land won by the US in the Mexican American War.fter the war with Mexico ended, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. As a result, this treaty established our Mexican-United States border at Texas at the Rio Grande River. We also got California, Utah, and Nevada from Mexico. -
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 states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War. -
Bleeding (bloody) kansas
Bleeding Kansas, 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 slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.Kansas is an important staging ground for what some people argue is the first battles of the Civil War, because it is this battlefield on which the forces of anti-slavery and the forces of slavery meet. .. -
Kansas-nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and President Franklin Pierce.The popular sovereignty clause of the law led pro- and anti-slavery elements to flood into Kansas with the goal of voting slavery up or down, resulting in Bleeding Kansas. -
battle of fort sumter
the Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.Fort Sumter is historically significant because it is the place where the first battle of the American Civil War was fought. -
Battle of bull run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas, was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War.his was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. On July 16, 1861, the untried Union army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the Confederate army, which was drawn. -
Battle of antietam
Battle of Antietam is the eighth-costliest land battle of the American Civil War (22,717 casualties).t was one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War and remains the single bloodiest day in American history with over 23,000 casualties. President Abraham Lincoln used the Union victory at Antietam to make his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862 -
emanicipation proclamation
It changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free. Wikipedia.The Emancipation Proclamation led the way to total abolition of slavery in the United States. With the Emancipation Proclamation, the aim of the war changed to include the freeing of slaves in addition to preserving the Union. -
Battle of vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.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 was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. -
gettysburg address
The ideals on which the nation was founded -- equality and freedom -- are worth fighting for and preserving.The Gettysburg Address is considered a pivotal moment in the way Americans viewed themselves and their government. -
13th amendment passed
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Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865 -
14th amendment passed
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.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 Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". The 15th Amendment, which was ratified in 1870, contained two sections. Section One stated that ''The right of citizens...to vote shall not be denied or abridged...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.'' -
Plessy v ferguson(1896)
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". -
Alien and Sedition Acts
included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote.It was passed by federalist papers in congress.It was signed into law by president Adams. It is important to us because federalists believed that democractic republican criticism of federalist policies was disloyal and feared that aliens living in the u.s. would sympathize with the french during a war.