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Battle of Lexington & Concord
is the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
it was the time that the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, and on the following day 12 of the 13 colonies voted in favor of Richard Henry Lee's motion for independence. -
Battle of Saratoga
this is the time marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the Britisth -
Battle of Yorktown
The Americans were assisted by the French, led by the Comte de Rochambeau. The battle took place in Yorktown, Virginia, near the York River. -
Northwest Ordinance
it was the Second Continental Congress, that chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, -
Alien & Sedition Acts
it was passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams. -
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. -
Louisiana Purchase
was a land deal between the United States and France, for 15 Millions dollar -
Marbury v. Madison
established the principle of judicial review—the power of the federal courts to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional.e -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalrie -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. -
Nullification Crisis
a that state convention adopted the Ordinance of Nullification, which declared that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable in South Carolina a -
Texas Annexation
the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. -
Oregon Treaty
they sign between united kingdom and united states -
Mexican Cession
they get for 15 millions dollar for state but used to be mexican republic -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. -
Bleeding (Bloody) Kansas
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 - Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
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 -
Battle of Bull Run
Confederate troops opened fire on Fort Sumter to begin the Civil War, the northern press and public were eager for the Union Army to make an advance on Richmond ahead of the planned meeting of the Confederate Congress -
Battle of Antietam
General Lee had hoped to defeat the Union on Union soil and force the North to give up on the war. The Union won the Battle of Antietam, although both sides experienced heavy casualties. -
Emancipation Proclamation
was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. -
Battle of Vicksburg
final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Gettysburg
After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. -
Gettysburg Address
is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War -
13th amendment passed
the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. -
14th amendment passed
the amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" -
15th amendment passed
the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote. -
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality