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Battle of Lexington & Concord
Tensions were building up during the years between the 13 American colonies and British. The British marched from Boston to nearby concord with armed weapons and they sounded an alarm and it started a battle. -
Declaration of independence
Declares independence from Great Britain. Gives us our rights and Thomas Jefferson wrote it and he used our natural rights by John Locke, and our natural rights our life liberty property. -
Battle of Saratoga
48 days apart from the battle before in Lexington and Concord, this battle was the Turing point in the american revolution and general John Burgoyne had a small costly victory. -
Battle of Yorktown
General George Washington commanded a group of 17,000 French and Continental troops to Yorktown for a battle against British and General Lord Charles Cornwallis. -
Northwest Ordinance
A method for new states coming into the union and if they would would be free or slave states. -
Alien and Sedition Act
the laws were made by John Adams and they say that to move immigrates and make it harder for them to vote. -
Virginia & Kentucky resolutions
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison made the resolutions for the two states because the federal government was having to much power that was not in the constitution -
Marybury V. Madison
John Adams established the judicial review to check over the legislative and executive branch to make sure laws and rights that are passed are constitutional -
Louisiana Purchase
The united states wanted the Louisiana Purchase for the land in the west and the passage going into the Mississippi river. the united states paid 15$ million dollars from France -
Monroe Doctrine
To stop foreign policy coming into the union. It was a concern for the British and united states. -
Nullification Crisis
South Carolina wanted to nullify a tax because it would make it harder for them and their money, Andrew Jackson was president at the time. -
Texas Annexation
Taxes joined the union after being its own country for nine years of declaring independence from mexico. -
Oregon Treaty
In 1846 Oregon the set a boundary between the united states and Canada at the 49th parallel. -
Mexican Cession (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
The united states got the Mexican Cession after the Mexican- American war when it was discussed that slavery played a big part in that -
Compromise of 1850
It was a crisis between the north and the south. The slave act and slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C -
The Missouri Compromise
The balance power from congress to decide the free and slave states. That Maine with enter in as a free state. -
Bleeding ( Bloody) Kansas
The border war was very violent and all of this happened because of slavery in Kansas -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
It was passed by congress, It allowed people in Nebraska and Kansas to choose weather or not to allow slavery in the states. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
In Charleston, South Carolina it was the first war of the american civil war. Major Robert Anderson was saying that South Carolina had bad conditions. Major Robert Anderson was gonna surrender but it was to late -
Battle of Bull Run
The first major battle for armies in Virginia, General Irvin McDowell marched from Washington against the confederate army all the way behind bull run. -
Battle of Antietam
The union victory by Abraham Lincoln using emancipation proclamation. Was one of the most important battles for the american civil war. It was a one day battle and one of the bloodiest battles -
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln wrote that all persons held as slaves within any state will be rebellious against the united states will be a free slave. -
Battle of Vicksburg
General Ulysses S. Grant’s Army in Tennessee marched into Vicksburg, Mississippi river. The union won the victory at port Hudson. We had grained Vicksburg. -
Battle of Gettysburg
In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania the union and confederate during the american civil war. the battle had more casualties in the beginning of the war and it was the turning point of the war with General Robert E.Lee. -
Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln had a ceremony for all the soldiers who were killed at the battle of Gettysburg. This was one of his most famous speeches -
14th Amendment passed
The constitution was ratified, it grants citizenship -
15th Amendment Passed
It was passed by congress and ratified for all Americans the right to vote, Mostly African Americans the right to vote -
Plessy V. Ferguson
It made it constitutional for racial segregation laws. Equal in quality a doctrine that was know as separate but equal. -
13th Amendment
The slaves were free and they were free to do what they wanted without consequences.