Jaylynn Dearring Timeline

By JaylynnD

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    • First battle of the Revolutionary War
    • It 1775 British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapon.
    • The battle proved to the British that American army was not just a band of unorganized

  • Battle of Saratoga

    • Turing point of the war
    • The Britsh won
    • America Surrender to the British

  • Battle of Yorktown

    • Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown
    • The Americans were assisted by the French which the French won the war.
    • Yorktown was the Final battle that ended the American Revolution.

  • Northwest Ordinance

    -Second continental charted government for Northwest Territory providing a method for admitting new states.
    - It was created so states can be equal to the original 13 colonies
    - It worked by banning slavery in the territory

  • Alien Sedition Act

    • Made it hard for immigrants to vote.
    • Was past by the federalist congress and signed to law by President Adams
    • This law included new powers to deport foreigners

  • Virginia and Kentucky Resolution

    • Legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Act we unconstitutional -The principal stated in the resolution become known as "Principal 98"
    • Madison asserted that states had the power to nullify unconstitutional federal laws

  • Marbury vs. Madison

    • Established the principal of Judicial Review
    • It also means that American court power to strike.
    • Ruling court was the supreme court

  • Louisiania Purchase

    • Was a land deal between U.S and France
    • U.S aquried approximately 827,000 square miles
    • They wanted it for 15 million

  • Missouri Compromise

    • The Missouri was a legislation
    • It was a argument against pro-slavery and anti- slavery
    • In an effort to preserve the balance of power in congress

  • Monroe Doctrine

    • Originated by President James Monroe
    • Declaring that the U.S would not tolerate inventory European
    • Policy expressing opposition European.

  • Nuffilication Crisis

    • Sectional political crisis
    • Involved confrontation between S.C and Federal Government -It was the introduction of many protective tariffs

  • Texas Annexation

    • Admitted to the union as the 28th state
    • Mexico wanted to keep Texas because Van Buran feared it would cause war.
      • People said it was the Manifest Destiny of the U.S to spread form the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean

  • Oregan Treaty

    • Is a treaty between the united kingdom signed June 15
    • Signed by President James. K Polk
    • It was agreement to set the boundary between U.S and Canada

  • Mexican Cession

    We acquired it from Guadalupe Hidalgo
    They wanted for 15 million
    We also got California, Utah, and Nevada

  • Compromise of 1850

    • Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions.
    • As part of the compromise of 1850, the fugitive slave act was amended.
    • The slave trade was abolished.

  • Kansas - Nebraska Act

    • The act was passed by the U.S Congress
    • The act served to repeal the Missouri compromise 1820
    • It may have been the sing significant event leading to this civil war .

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

    • The intense confederate artillery bombardment of major Robert Anderson's small union garrison.
    • The fort had been the source of tension between the union and confederacy for months.
    • The confederacy won

  • Battle of Bull Run

    • Two months after the confederacy troops opened fire on the fort Sumter to began the civil war.
    • The confederacy won
    • The south won bragging rights and morale bragging victory

  • Bloody Kansas

    • Violent civil confrontation in the U.s between 1854 and 1861.
    • People argued that is was the first civil war because it is this battle field on which the force of anti-slavery and the force of slavery meet.
    • The war was between slavery and anti-slavery.

  • Battle of Antietam

    • George McCellan was fired not long after the battle
    • Was one of the Bloodiest wars
    • Union troops Army marched to Antietam from Washington D.C to stop Lee's Army

  • Gettyburg Address

    • Is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln on November 1963
    • It was a dedication of soldier's killed.
    • Was during the American Civil War

  • Battle of Vickburg

    • Major General Ulysses S. Grant army of the Tennessee converged on Vicksburg on the Mississippi River.
    • The Vicksburg loss was more important to the war. -Vicksburg surrendered after prolonged siege operations.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    • Declared that all people held as slaves within the rebellious states.
    • It changed the Federal legend states of more than 3.5 million enslaved Americans
    • Presidential proclamation

  • Battle of Gettyburg

    • The battle was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
    • After a great victory over the union forces
    • They fought during the Americans Civil War.

  • 13 Amendement

    • Abolish slavery
    • The U.S constitution banned ALL slavery
    • President Abraham Lincoln

  • 14 Amendement

    • Granted citizenship to people born or naturalized in the U.S
    • One Reconstructional Amendment

  • 15 Amendment

    • Granted African Americans men the right of vote
    • Lydon B. Johnson signed the 15 amendment
      -Democrats supported it

  • Plessy Vs Fergunson

    -Plessy was in jail overnight and released on a $500 dollar bond.
    - Allows separate but equal
    - The court voted to overturn sixty years