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Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Colombus
Colombus set off on his first voyage to the New World. -
Jamestown
The first successful colonized town in the New World. -
Mayflower Compact
The first thing the Pilgrims signed to ensure that there was a government to control the town. -
French and Indian War
This war was between Great Britain and France and was named the Seven Years' War -
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French and Indian War
Known as the Seven Years War in America it The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, who declared war on each other. -
Declaration of Independence
The document that let the US grant freedom from Great Britain on this date -
Valley Forge
This is the camp that George Washington and his troops stayed for six months for the war. -
Battle of Yorktown
This battle was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. -
Constitutional Convention
This convention was held to "edit" the Articles of Confederation to make them to where they would actullay help the economy. -
Whiskey's Rebellion
This rebellion was about farmers who used their leftover grain and corn in the form of whiskey as a medium of exchange were forced to pay a new tax. The tax was a part of treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's program to increase central government power. -
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Thomas Jefferson in1803 Supreme Court ruled in Marbury v. Madison. Any law passed by Congress can be declared unconstitutional by the courts. -
Louisiana Purchase
Clsimed by the United States of America from France. 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs, for a total sum of 15 million dollars for around 4 cents per acre. -
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a 32-month military conflict between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. -
Mexican Cession
The Mexican Cession of 1848 is a historical name in the United States for the region of the present day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. -
Gadsen Puarchase
The purchase included lands south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande; it was largely for the purpose that the US might construct a transcontinental railroad along a deep southern route. It also aimed to reconcile outstanding border issues between the US and Mexico following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican–American War of 1846–48. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots that started the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. In 1966, the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. -
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Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865, after seven Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America the "Confederacy" . The states that remained in the Union were known as the "Union". The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western te -
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Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. A Union army under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had moved via the Tennessee River deep into Tennessee and was encamped principally at Pittsburg Landing on the west bank of the river. Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack on Grant there. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with a combined tally of dead, wounded, and missing at 22,717.[4] -
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Battle of Vicksburg
It was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Vicksburg led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
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Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. -
President Lincoln's Assination
President Lincoln was shot inside of Ford's Theater by John W. Booth and the president died shortly after being shot. -
13th Amendment
Slavery had been tacitly protected in the original Constitution through clauses such as the Three-Fifths Compromise, by which three-fifths of the slave population was counted for representation in the United States House of Representatives. Though many slaves had been declared free by Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. -
14th Amendment
The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. The amendment was bitterly contested, particularly by Southern states, which were forced to ratify it in order for them to regain representation in the Congress. -
15th Amendment
n 1865, Congress passed what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1866, guaranteeing citizenship without regard to race, color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude. The bill also guaranteed equal benefits and access to the law, a direct assault on the Black Codes passed by many post-war Southern states.
