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Northwest Ordnance
chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory -
Louisiana Purchase
doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution -
Missouri Compromise
Congress passed a law admitting Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and banned slavery from remaining Lousiana purchase lands. -
Monroe Doctrine
The doctrine was from President Monroe regarding foreign policy and that the old world and new world had different systems. It had 4 points -
Nullification Crisis
It was during the presidency of Andrew Jackson and where there was a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government -
Texas Annexation
the annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico -
Oregon Treaty
Treaty signed between Great Britain and the United States. The boundary separated Oregon and Canada -
Mexican Cession
lands surrendered, or ceded, to the United States by Mexico at the end of the Mexican War. The terms of this transfer were spelled out in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848. -
Compromise of 1850
Five laws that dealt with slavery and territorial expansion. Also, slave trade in Washington DC was abolished. -
Bleeding (Bloody) Kansas
Also called border war, violent acts in Kansas from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slaves in Kansas. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not to allow slavery within the borders. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
Bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, SC by the South Carolina militia which led to surrender by the US Army starting the American Civil War. -
Battle of Bull Run
The first major battle of the American Civil War and was a confederate victory. -
Battle of Antietam
Occurred near Sharpsburg, Maryland and had confederates General Lee against union General McClellan and was the deadliest one-day battle in all of American history. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Lincoln announced that all slaves within rebellious states are free. -
Battle of Vicksburg
In Mississippi and was a union victory. President Lincoln stated Vicksburg was significant to open the river to the Northern traffic along the whole river. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Most important engagement of the American Civil War. The union won stopping Lee's invasion of the north. -
Gettysburg Address
President Lincoln delivered a speech later known as Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the National Cemetary. Famous speech that all men are created equal. -
Sherman's March to the Sea
General Sherman led 60,000 troops on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah Georgia. This was to frighten Georgia's people into abandoning the Confederates -
Presidential Reconstruction 1863-1867
President Andrew Johnson offered a pardon to southern whites except for confederate leaders and restored political rights and property except slaves. -
13th Amendment Passed
Abolished slavery in the United States. -
14th Amendment Passed
This extended liberties and rights from the Bill of Rights to former slaves. -
Congressional Reconstruction 1867-1877
After the Civil War when the federal government tried to enforce equal suffrage on ex-confederate states -
15th Amendment Passed
Granted African American men the right to vote. -
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under "separate but equal" doctrine. This is from an african american named Plessy who refused to sit on the train car for blacks.