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Declaration of Independence
Name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies were independent know. -
Battle of Saratoga
It marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War -
Articles Of Confederation
Was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as its first constitution -
Northwest Ordinance
An act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed July 13, 1787. The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States, from lands south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. -
United States Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America -
Bil of Rights
It was the name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. -
Underground Railroad
This was one of the many actiions that helped slaves escape their masters. this event does not have an exact datee. -
Westward Expansion
It shows the surrounding areas that eventually became part of the United States -
Louisiana Purchase
Was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. -
Compromise of 1820
The Act opened Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory to slavery and future admission of slave states by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through "popular sovereignty" whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Industrial Revolution
Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state, preserving the Congressional balance.new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. -
The Missouri Compromise
Primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
Nat Turners rebellion
In August of 1831, a slave named Nat Turner incited an uprising that spread through several plantations in southern Virginia. later killed because of that. -
Manifest Destiny
Belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. -
Abolitionist Movement
Movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal.immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation -
Texas Annexation
Incorporation into the United States of America of the Republic of Texas, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state. -
Compromise of 1850
This does not have an exact date. This also is an event that led up to the civil war and also this was compared that with that there was a dispute over land. The compromise prevented further territorial expansion of slavery while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act, a law which compelled Northerners to seize and return escaped slaves to the South. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. -
Uncle tom's cabin released
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s fictional exploration of slave life was a cultural sensation. Northerners felt as if their eyes had been opened to the horrors of slavery, while Southerners protested that Stowe’s work was slanderous -
Kansas-Nebraska act
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Violence in Congress
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Bleeding kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, narrowly passed while Congressmen brandished weapons and uttered death threats in the House chambers, overturned parts of the Missouri Compromise by allowing the settlers in the two territories to determine whether or not to permit slavery by a popular vote. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Dred Scott was a Virginia slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court. The case eventually rose to the level of the Supreme Court, where the justices found that, as a slave, Dred Scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights or recognitions afforded to a human being. -
John browns raid
He cut his teeth as a killer as an anti-slavery “Jayhawker” during Bleeding Kansas. In mid-October of 1859, the crusading abolitionist organized a small band of white allies and free blacks and raided a government arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Secession in the United States
This event also oes not have an exact date but its one of the events that also led up to the civil war. Couldnt find any details. -
Abraham LIncoln elected President
He was elected by a considerable margin in 1860 despite not being included on many Southern ballots. -
Southern states secede
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Battle of Fort Sumter
With secession, several federal forts, including Fort Sumter in South Carolina, suddenly became outposts in a foreign land.
