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The Battle of Lexington & Concord
The Battle of Lexington & Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Massachusetts Bay. The battles happened because the commander in Boston had hearded of supplies of powder and weapons. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was the marked climax of the Saratoga campaign, which gave a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown also known as the Seige of Yorktown was the surrender at Yorktown. This battle ended on October 19, 1781, which ended major land operations in North America. On this day, President George Washington commanded 17,000 French and Continental troops aganist British General Lord Charles Cornwallis. -
Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance was adopted on July 13, 1787, by the Second Continental Congress. It also charated a government for the Northwest Territory to provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and it listed a Bill of Rights to guaranteed in the territory. -
Alien & Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts was a series of laws that were passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798. The laws included new powers to depart foreigners as well as make it harder for new immigrants to vote. These laws was signed by President Adams -
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were political statements drafted in 1798 & 1799. Madison also hoped that other states would register their oppositon to the Alien & Sedition Acts as beyond the power of Congress. Madison's Virginia Resolutions was that the states had the power to nulify unconstitutional laws. Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution went further than Madison's on. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France. The United States acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. The U.S. paid $18 million francs and cancellation of debts worth $18 million francs for a total of $68 million francs. -
Marbury v. Madison
established the principle of judicial review which say that the Surpreme Court has the authority to interpret the Constitutional (specifically, in this case, to overturn a law passed by Congress). This differed from Thomas Jefferson's belief that the Surpreme Court should interpret the Constiution. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission for the United States. The main purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to keep a balance between the number of slave states and the number of free states. (Missouri was a slave state) -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy statement that was originally set forth in 1823. The policy was created to separate the spheres of the Europeans and Americans influence. The United States also promised to stay out of the Europeans business. The Monroe Doctrine was also a policy that was the opposing Europeans colonialism Americans in the beginning of the 1823. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was the United States sectional political crisis in 1832-1833. During this time period, Andrew Jackson was the president. The Nullification Crisis was caused by introducing a series of protective tariffs. The caused by the Nullification Crisis the convention declares that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina. -
Texas Annexation
The Texas Annexation was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America. The Texas Annexation was admitted to the Union as the 28th State on December 29, 1845. On March 2, 1836, declared independence from the Republic of Mexico. -
Oregon Treaty
The Oregon Treaty was an agreement that set the boundary between the United States and Canada. This was located at the 49th parallel west of the Rocky Mountains, which was veering around Vancouver Island. The -
Mexican Cession (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
Is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially titiled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits, and settlements. Signed February 2, 1848. The Treaty recognized Texas as a U.S. State, and ceded a large chunk of land. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850. The Compromise helped the south gained states by the strengthening of the fugitive slave law which help the north gained a new free state. -
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 subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. -
Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run was also known as the First Battle of Manassas, was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William Country, Virginia, just north of the city of Manassas and about 25 miles west-southwest of Washington, D.C. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam known as the Battle of Sharpsburg. Southern United States was at battle during the American Civil War, which was fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared, "that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are and henceforward shall be free". This changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the Southern States are now free. This proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862. -
The Battle of Vicksburg
The battle of Vicksburg as known as the Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the American Civil War. The Union forces had complete control of the Mississippi River and had in effect cut the Confederacy into two. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought between these days, July 1–3, 1863. This battle was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. This battle was also the bloodiest. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address was a speech that was made by formal United States president, Abraham Lincoln. The speech was delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. -
13th Amendment passed
The 13th Amendment abolished the slavery in United States. The Amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865 and was ratified on December 6, 1865. -
14th Amendment passed
The 14th Amendment was ratified by United States Congress. The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. -
15th Amendment passed
The 15th Amendment was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869 and was ratified on February 3, 1870. This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
