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Battle of Lexington and Concord
This was the first battles of the Revolutionary War. They happened because the British commander in Boston had heard of supplies of powder and weapons being kept by Patriots in the towns of Lexington and Concord. -
Battle of Saratoga
The battle of Saratoga was a crucial victory for the Patriots during the American Revolution and is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War. -
Northwest ordinance
In 1781, Virginia began by ceding its extensive land claims to Congress. In 1784, Thomas Jefferson first proposed a method of incorporating these western territories into the United States. His plan effectively turned the territories into colonies of the existing states. Congress feared that the new states 10 in the Northwest as well as Kentucky, Tennessee and Vermont would quickly gain enough power to outvote the old ones and never passed the. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown. The British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
the Alien and Sedition acts were passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams. The law aloud foreigners to be deported, and it also made it difficult for foreigners to vote. there were four laws/acts during this time; the Naturalization Act, the Alien Act, third was the Alien Enemies Act, lastly was the the Sedition Act. -
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
These resolutions were passed by the legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 and were created by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. -
Marbury V. Madison
Marbury V. MAdison was a U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws, statutes, and executive actions that contravene the U.S. Constitution. -
Marbury V. Madison
The Marbury v. Madison case gave the Supreme Court of the United States the power of judicial review. Judicial review is the power to determine whether a law passed by a legislature is constitutional. In Marbury, the Supreme Court took the power to declare that laws passed by Congress were null and void if they (in the Court’s opinion) violated the Constitution. -
Louisiana purchase
The Louisiana purchase is important because it gave the U.S. control of the Mississippi river and key port to New Orleans, which were both used for farmers to ship crops. -
Missouri Compromise
In 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave sate and Maine a free state. it was repealed by the Kansas, Nebraska act. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. At the same time, the doctrine noted that the U.S. would recognize and not interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries. -
The Nullification Crisis
The 1832 Nullification Crisis was caused by the introduction of a series of protective tariffs. The 1828 Tariff of Abominations which sparked the Nullification Crisis was the third protective tariff implemented by the government. S.C. thought that the tariff acts were unconstitutional. -
Texas Annexation
After the U.S. annexed Texas we soon went to war with Mexico in 1846. People said that adding Texas to the U.S. would be manifest destiny. -
Oregon Treaty
The Oregon Treaty was one of the first successes of Manifest Destiny. ... The signing of the treaty in 1846 was important to Manifest Destiny because it showed the U.S. was willing to fight for westward expansion. It was signed by Polk on June 15, 1846 -
Mexican Cession (Treaty of Guadalupa Hidalgo)
The Mexican Cession was important because, After the war with Mexico ended, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. As a result, the treaty established our Mexican-United States border at Texas and Rio Grande River. We also got California, Utah, and Nevada from Mexico. It added five new states to the U.S. also the expansion of manifest destiny. -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 was a new version of the Fugitive Slave Act. The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas were violent acts that happend in the U.S. that came from a political debate over weather or not Slavery should be legal or not in Kansas. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
The battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil WAr. The Battle happend in Charleston Sc. after the Battle of Fort Sumter several new states seceded from the Union giving the Confederacy 11 states in total. -
The Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle that happend during the Cicil war, and resulted in the confederates victory. -
The Battle Antietam
The Battle of Antietam lasted for one day and was known as he Bloodiest day in history. The Union won and it led to the Emaciation Proclamation. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Battle of Vicksburg
The battle of Vicksburg was when the union took control over the Mississippi river. -
Gettysburg Address
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a short speech at the end of the ceremonies dedicating the battlefield cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. That speech has come to be known as the Gettysburg Address. “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” This was th famous quote from the address. -
13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment was passes to abolish slavery -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment granted Citizen to all people that were born in the U.S. -
The 15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment gave the right to vote to all African American men. -
Plessy V Ferguson
The Court ruled on the concept of 'separate but equal' and set back civil rights in the U.S.
