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Magna Carta
Magna Carta is one of the most important documents in history as it established the principle that everyone is subject to the law, even the king, and guarantees the rights of individuals, the right to justice and the right to a fair trial. -
Declaration of Independence
The founding document of the United States, claiming independence from Great Britain. -
Adoption of the Constitution
After many debates between the delegates of the states, the finally agreed upon proposing a new constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation. The purpose of the constitution was to not allow the Federal government to take control of the whole nation. -
U.S. Constitution 1st amendment
Rights to religion, speech, assembly, press, and petition. -
U.S Constitution 2nd amendment
Right to Bear Arms -
U.S Constitution 3rd amendment
Quartering of Soldiers -
U.S. Constitution 4th Amendment
Search and Seizure -
U.S. Constitution 5th amendment
Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self-Incrimination, Due Process -
U.S. Constitution 6th Amendment
Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions: Rights to Jury Trial, to Confront Opposing Witnesses and to Counsel. -
U.S. Constitution 8th Amendment
Protections against Excessive Bail, Cruel and Unusual Punishment. -
U.S. Constitution 9th Amendment
Non-Enumerated Rights -
U.S. Constitution 7th Amendment
Jury Trial -
U.S. Constitution 10th Amendment
Rights Reserved to States. -
Whiskey Rebellion
President George Washington sent troops to western Pennsylvania to quell the Whiskey Rebellion, an uprising by citizens who refused to pay a liquor tax that had been imposed -
U.S Constitution 11th Amendment
Suits Against a State -
Thomas Jefferson Election
He created the First Party System and believed in education and political freedoms & equality. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Territory, the huge swath of land that made up the western Mississippi basin, passed from French colonial rule to Spanish colonial rule and then back to the French before U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson pried it away from Napoleon for a final price of some $27 million. Out of it were carved—in their entirety—the states of Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma -
U.S Constitution 12th Amendment
Election of President and Vice-President -
Monroe Doctrine
U.S. President James Monroe had a set of principles in that decades later would be called the Monroe Doctrine. According to the policy, the United States would not intervene in European affairs -
Dread Scott v. Sandford Court Case
Stated that any African American people enslaved were not considered citizens and could not receive protection from the federal government. -
Election of President Abraham Lincoln
Presidential election, Republicans, led by Abraham Lincoln, opposed the expansion of slavery. Lincoln won the election but before his time in office, the seven slave states of the south formed a confederacy which opposed them. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The year of the Emancipation Proclamation, in the small Pennsylvania crossroads town of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee’s invading Army of Northern Virginia sustained a defeat so devastating that it sealed the fate of the Confederacy -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln. This order stated that the slaves in the 10 rebellious states had to be freed. Also these slaves could work in the army and the armed forces had to recognize them as ex-slaves and treat them no different. -
U.S Constitution 13th Amendment
Abolition of Slavery and Involuntary Servitude -
U.S Constitution 14th amendment
Protects rights against state infringements, defines citizenship, prohibits states from interfering with privileges and immunities, requires due process and equal protection, punishes states for denying vote, and disqualifies Confederate officials and debts -
U.S Constitution 15th Amendment
Voting Rights -
Plessy v. Ferguson Court Case
The Plessy v. Ferguson case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races." -
U.S Constitution 17th Amendment
Popular Election of Senators -
U.S Constitution 16th Amendment
Federal Income Tax -
Sinking of the Lusitania
More than any other single event, the sinking of the unarmed British ocean liner, the Lusitania, by a German submarine (killing, among others, 128 Americans), prompted the U.S. to join the war on the side of the Allies. -
U.S Constitution 18th Amendment
Prohibition -
U.S Constitution 19th Amendment
Women's Right to Vote -
U.S Constitution 20th Amendment
Commencement of Presidential Term and Succession -
U.S Constitution 21st Amendment
Repeal of 18th Amendment (Prohibition) -
U.S Constitution 22nd Amendment
Two-Term Limitation on President -
Brown vs Board of Education
A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional -
Cooper vs Aaron
Cooper v. Aaron was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which denied the school board of Little Rock, Arkansas, the right to delay racial desegregation for 30 months. -
U.S Constitution 23rd Amendment
District of Columbia Presidential Vote -
Martin Luther King Jr'sSpeech
Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I have a dream speech" which expressed how he felt about the equal rights of African Americans. -
U.S Constitution 24th amendment
Abolition of Poll Tax Requirement in Federal Elections -
Voting Rights Act
Voting Rights act is a law that doesn't allow discrimination in voting. The Act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. -
U.S Constitution 25th Amendment
Presidential Vacancy, Disability and Inability -
U.S Constitution 26th Amendment
Right to Vote at Age 18 -
U.S Constitution 27th Amendment
Congressional Compensation