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Battle of Lexington & Concord
Battle of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord. they seized the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. this event was important to us because it is the first battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Saratoga
The battle of Saratoga Comprising two significant battles during September and October of 1777. this was a crucial victory for the patriots during the american Revolution.This considered the turning point of the revolution war. this convinced the French of America's strength. British had successfully captured New York. this event is important because giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War -
Battle of Yorktown
Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army. troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops. Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York. Ending on October 19, 1781. significance of the conflict was that Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown.the battle ended the american Revolutionary war. -
Northwest Ordinance
Continental Congress, chartered a government for the Northwest Territory. provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory. listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. An act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States. This event was important it laid the basis for the government of the Northwest Territory and for the admission of its constituent parts as states into the union. -
Alien & Sedition Act
They made it harder for an immigrant to become a citizen. This allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens who were deemed dangerous. The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed by the Federalist-dominated 5th United States Congress. signed into law by President John Adams. Passed in preparation for an anticipated war with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans and limited speech critical. -
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
The Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. The principles stated in the resolutions became known as the "Principles of '98". Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799.Madison hoped that other states would register their opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts as beyond the powers given to Congress. -
Louisiana Purchase
U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory.The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States. it gave the U.S. control of the Mississippi River and the port city of New Orleans, both of which were used by farmers to ship their crops and get paid. -
Marbury v. Madison
Established the principle of judicial review. the power of the federal courts to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional. President John Adams named William Marbury as one of forty-two justices of the peace on March 2, 1801.this is important case in Supreme Court history it was the first U.S. Supreme Court case to apply the principle of judicial review the power of federal courts to void acts of Congress in conflict with the Constitution. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries.triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state.Slavery would be permitted. The United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.The compromise is important in that it delayed the slavery debate for a short time.It did not end it. the compromise was declared unconstitutional by Justice Roger Taney in the Dred Scott decision. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823. President James Monroe first stated the doctrine during his seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress.James Monroe used his annual message to Congress for a bold assertion The American continents are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. created separate spheres of European and American influence. -
Nullification Crisis
During the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government.Nullification is the formal suspension by a state of a federal law within its borders. it is important because it caused introduction of a series of protective tariffs. Tariff of Abominations sparked the Nullification Crisis was the third protective tariff implemented by the government. -
Texas Annexation
Texas Annexation was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America. it admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2, 1836.The annexation led quickly to war with Mexico in 1846. The victorious United States came away with control of the American Southwest and California through the Treaty of Guadalupe in 1848. -
Oregon Treaty
Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848. February 14, 1859 was when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon.The territory was variously claimed from the sixteenth century by Spain. Oregon Territory would not be shared and this ultimately led to the Pig War. -
Mexican Cession
The Mexican Cession is the region in the modern day southwestern. Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican American War. The Mexican Cession refers to lands surrendered or ceded to the United States by Mexico at the end of the Mexican War.important to our history. After the war with Mexico ended, As a result, this treaty established our Mexican-United States border at Texas at the Rio Grande River. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850.In an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. the Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress. The south gained by the strengthening of the fugitive slave law, the north gained a new free state, California. -
Bleeding Kansas
Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States.emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.civil war in the United States, fought between Proslavery and antislavery advocates for control of the new territory of Kansas.staging ground for what some people argue is the first battle of the Civil War because it is battlefield on which the forces of anti-slavery and the forces of slavery meet. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.the remaining territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase territories could be admitted to the Union as states.the most important result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was its language concerning the contentious issue of slavery. -
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 and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. security issues forced Anderson to leave with his men and... Fort Sumter is historically significant because it is the place where the first battle of the American Civil War was fought. -
Battle of Bull Run
Two months after Confederate troops opened fire on Fort Sumter to begin the Civil War, the northern press and public were eager for the Union Army to make an advance on Richmond ahead of the planned meeting of the Confederate Congress there on July 20. This was the first major land battle of the armies in Virginia. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam is known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, was a battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862, between Confederate.First major battle to take place on Union soil. making it the bloodiest day in American history. The Union victory at Antietam resulted in President Abraham Lincoln issuing his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. -
Battle of Vicksburg
The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War.Divided the Confederacy and proved the military genius of Union.In three weeks, Grant's men marched 180 miles.The Union Army surrounded the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi and eventually took control. battle of Gettysburg,Union forces defeated Confederate forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi.This victory gave them control of the Mississippi. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are henceforward shall be free.changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free. led the way to total abolition of slavery in the United States. Emancipation Proclamation aim of the war changed the freeing of slaves in addition to preserving the Union. -
Battle of Gettysburg
After great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville.General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863.Advancing Confederates clashed with the Union's Army of the Potomac. commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg.More than 50,000 men fell as casualties during the 3-day battle, making it the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg. A cemetery for Union soldiers killed at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. -
13th Amendment Passed
13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. The 13th amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States It passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. important because it created a constitutional amendment that banned slavery in ALL of the American states. Outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. -
14th Amendment Passed
14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. 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. Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States including former slaves and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws. -
15th Amendment Passed
ratified February 3, 1870. the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote. shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities. as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality.a doctrine that came to be known as separate but equal. The Court ruled on the concept of 'separate but equal' and set back civil rights in the United States for decades to come.