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When Betst Ross created the first american flag it represented that America was finally a nation
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the 13 colonies that were at war with Great Britian were declared independent states
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An agreement made by the original 13 states setting up a confederacy
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The battle of Yorktown where British finally surrendered
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The reaty of Paris ended the American Revoultionary war between G.B. and the U.S.
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The treaty of Paris ended the war for americans freedom against Great Britain
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The Bill of Rights is the first ten admendments to the U.S. constitution
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California was a free state and the forbidding of a slave-trading in columbia
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The Louisana land contained part of 15 U.S. states and more
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President James Madison declares war on G.B.
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The Underground railroad was a series of secret routes to help slaves get to freedom
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It decided which states could have slavery and which could not.
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The Oregon trail a route that connected the Missouri river to Valleys in Oregon
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Mexican troops launched an assult on the Alamo mission
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The trail of tears was an on going effort to remore native americans from their ancestral land
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Mexican-American war was a result of mexican resentment over the U.S. annexation of texas and a border dispute.
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The first convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York and started the movement for Women's Rights.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president on November 6th 1860 as the 16th president
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The battle of Fort Sumter led to the Civil War.
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American civil was was the result of sectional tensions between the north and south
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Battle of Gettysburg was fought between the confederates and the union armies which ended when the confederates withdrew
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President Lincoln issues an emancipation proclomation, stated all men are created equal.
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The last shot which ended the civil war that had lasted for four years.
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John booth stepped into Lincoln's box at the theatre and shot him in the head and he died less than 12 hours later
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The thirteenth ammendment abolished slavery.
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The civil rights act of 1866 was an attempt to have African Americans as an equal, politically and legally.
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The Ku Klux Klan also known as the KKK was founded at the end of the civil war.
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The 15th ammendment gave rights to any american citizen to vote.
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The Great Chicago Fire burned the city from Sunday evening to Tuesday morning and destroyed 17,500 buildings.
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The battle of Little Bighorn took place near the Little Bighorn River in Montana, none of the Calvalry Soldiers Survived.
