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Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest by the Sons of Liberty in response to the British government imposing taxes on the American colonies. The British government did not like the colonies going against their ruling and thus responded harshly and lead to escalation into the American Revolution. -
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American Revolutionary War
Following the Boston Tea Party event, tensions escalated between Britain and the Thirteen Colonies.. This culminated to war between Britain, the Colonies which were later allied with France and resulted with independence of the colonies from Great Britain as the United States of America. -
Constitution of the United States
Officially ratified in 1788, the Constitution of the United States was originally created during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Although it was not the goal of the delegates to create a new Constitution (as we were operating under the Articles of Confederation), ultimately under the influence of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton wanting to create a new government overall, rather than ratify the existing document. -
War of 1812
Conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815. -
The first Presidential assassination in American History
Occurring near the end of the American Civil War, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was part of a larger conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the United States government. -
American Civil War
Primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people, war broke out in April 1861 when secessionist forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina shortly after Abraham Lincoln had been inaugurated as the President of the United States. The war ended when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Court House. The Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and four million black slaves were freed. -
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Jim Crow Era until the Civil Rights Movement
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the former Confederate states of the South, starting in the 1870s, and were upheld in 1896, by the U.S. Supreme Court's "separate but equal" legal doctrine for facilities for African Americans, established with the court's decision in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson. -
Civil Right Movement and the Removal of Jim Crow Era laws
Segregation of public schools was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. In some states it took years to implement this decision, and it wasn't the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, where the remaining Jim Crow
