Significant Events in United States History

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    Jamestown-the first English settlement in America
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    the first known document that provided self-government through a democracy
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    to organize Great Britain's new North American empire
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    he first military engagements of the American Revolution
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    United states declared it independence from Britain
  • George Washington

    George Washington

  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights

    To set limits on what the government can and cannot
  • Lousiana Purchase

    Lousiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase was one of the most important land acquisitions ever to be made by the United States,
  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine

    It stated that european powers were no longer to colonize or interfere with independent states.
  • Nullification Crisis

    Nullification Crisis

    the formal suspension by a state of a federal law
  • Battle of the Alamo

    Battle of the Alamo

  • Mexican–American War

    Mexican–American War

    First American Intervention
  • Kansas And Nebraska Act

    Kansas And Nebraska Act

  • Civil War

    Civil War

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

  • The 13th Amendment

    The 13th Amendment

    Ended slavery