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Start of the French and Indian War
A war between France and Britain that took place in America. It was also known as the "Seven years war" and France was forced to give up the land they owned in America. -
End of the French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was ended in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris. By the terms of the treaty, France renounced to Britain all the mainland of North America east of the Mississippi. -
Start of the American Revolution ( Lexington and Concord )
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775. The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord. -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration of independence was signed on July 4, 1776, and separated the U.S. from England. It was written by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. -
Constitutional Convention
Fifty-five delegates had a Constitutional Convention to talk about ways to strengthen the government. They replaced the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution. -
George Washington Becomes first President of the United States
In 1789, George Washington was elected the first President of the United States. -
Whiskey Rebellion
In March of 1791, the first Congress of the United States passed an excise tax on spirits distilled in the United States. The frontier farmers of western Pennsylvania, cash-poor and reliant on whiskey as a commodity and even a form of currency, rose up in protest against the excise tax. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom, with their respective allies, from June 1812 to February 1815. -
Mexican American War
The Mexican-American War, waged between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, helped to fulfill America's "manifest destiny" to expand its territory across the entire North American continent. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin emerged triumphantly. The election of Lincoln served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War -
Start of the American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North and the South. The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
End of the American Civil War
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate troops to the Union's Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, marking the beginning of the end of the grinding four-year-long American Civil War. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C
