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New Hampshire
New Hampshire declared themselves independent from England
Other states soon followed in the steps New Hampshire did to become free. -
Presention of Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson presents the Declaration of Independence to a committee of 5
if approved this will bring freedom to America. -
Declaration of Independence approval
Congress had agreed with Thomas Jefferson's idea of the Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration is important because it gave us our freedom from Britain. -
Abandonment of Fort Ticonderoga
The British force the Americans to leave Fort Ticonderoga, which was known as a vital point of defense and this caused a battle to begin. -
Treaty of Paris
negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, it ended the Revolutionary War and recognized American Independence. -
Northwest Ordinance
Provided a method for admitting new states to the union from the territory, and listed the Bill of Rights. -
U.S. declares war on G.B.
June 18th is when the United states had declared a war on Great Britain because Britain refused to stop seizing American ships.
The British continuously engaged in impressments and would force the us to serve in Royal Navy. -
Treaty of Ghent
This treaty helped end the war of 1812 and bring a sense of nationalism.
both sides had signed this agreement Decemer 24th. -
Jackson purchase
The Jackson Purchase, a region of western Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky purchased these five states- Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Mississippi, and Louisiana. -
Abolistionist Movement
This movement captured the attention of African-Americans and white people who were against slavery and wanted it to end -
Anti-Slavery
The society had received support from African-American communities in the North, many people were flooding the North with Anti-slavery literature, agents and petitions to get the congress to end support for slavery. -
Organized Abolitionism
Organized Abolitionism had been subsumed by many larger sectional crisis's over slavery, this was prompted by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. -
Kansa-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. congress. This allowed the people in those states to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted to keep slavery in their boarders. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The first battle of American Civil War, the U.S. had called a 34-hour bombardment and President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to join the army. This was the beginning of the Civil War. -
Presidential Recnstruction
After president Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, President Reconstruction under Johnson readmitted Lincolns ten percent plan which granted southerners full pardons. -
KKK founded
In Pulaski TN the first kkk secret meeting was called by these advocated extremists, the kkk was basically made up of racist white supremacists. this was the first time America got a glimpse of how dirty people would go to keep racism alive. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
First Federal law defines citizenship and affirms all citizens are equal and are to be protected by the law. This was important because it put in detail all the rights former slaves had. -
First Reconstruction Act
Divided the south into 5 conquered districts that were governed by the U.S. military until they found a new government. -
Amnesty Act
42nd United States congress passed a general act that restored full political privileges to all affected 150,000 former slaves, confederate troops who were in the American Civil War. -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
This was sometimes called the enforcement act, it forbid discrimination in hotels, on trains, buses, and other public places, because it was unconstitutional. This gave blacks the right to be treated equally and have the rights they deserve.
