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Battle of Lexington & Concord
the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They happen in the year of 1775 The reason it occurred is because of britain -
Battle of Saratoga
Marked a turning point in the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British -
Northwest Ordinace
Was important to Legislative act of the confederation congress also protected civil liberties and outlawed slavery in new territories -
Alien & Sedition Act
Series of laws that were passed by the federalist and was signed by president Adams -
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
Are political statements which Kentucky, Virginia legislatures took position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. -
Marbury V. Madison
landmark legal case established the doctrine of judicial review written by Chief Justice John Marshall -
Louisiana Purchase
Gave the U.S control of the Mississippi River and New orleans which were used by farmers to ship their crops and get paid -
Mississippi Compromise
A dispute between slave and free states. In effort to preserve the balance of power in congress between slave and free states. -
Monroe Doctrine
Was a Foreign policy statement spheres of European and American influence -
Nullification Crisis
Sectional crisis Nullification Crisis erupted when the South Carolina legislature passed on ordinance Tariffs in year between 1828. -
Texas Annexation
impacted individualism, The fact that texas was still a republic nation and was more independent -
Oregon Territory
The oregon boundary dispute between the U.S and britain was settled with the singing of the oregon treaty -
Mexican Cession (Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed in the year of 1848 and ended -
Compromise of 1850
A four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican American War. -
Bleeding (Bloody) Kansas
A series of violent civil confrontations in the United States -
Kansas Nebraska Act
allowed people to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery -
Battle of Fort Sumter
first battle of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Bull run
First Battle of Manassas, was the first major battle of the American Civil War. -
Battle of Antietam
The union victory as Antietam resulted in President Abraham Lincoln issuing his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in year of 1862 -
Emancipation Proclamation
With the Emancipation Proclamation, the war changed including the freeing of slaves. -
Battle of Vicksburg
They lost in many ways that were more important to the war -
Battle of Gettysburg
considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in the year of 1853 in dedication of solider´s National Cemetery -
13th Amendment Passed
It created a constitutional amendment that banned slavery in allof the American states. -
14th Amendment Passed
granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States -
15th Amendment Passed
Protects the right of Americans to vote in elections to elect their leaders -
Plessy V. Ferguson
The court ruled on the concept of separate but equal and set back civil rights in the U.S for decades to come