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Battle of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.This ragtag army defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory bolsters their confidence for the war ahead. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. On October 17, 1777, 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms.The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown 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. The battle took place in Yorktown Virginia from September 28th of 1781 through October 19th 1781.The significance of the conflict was that Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown. -
Northwest Ordinance
The Northwest Ordinance was an act of the congress of the confederation of the United States. Laid the basis for the government of the northwest territory and for the admission of its constituent parts as states into the union -
Alien & Sedition Acts
Alien & Sedition acts were passed by the federalist congress in 1798 and signed into the law by President Adams, these laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for immigrants to vote. -
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions these resolution were passed by legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 and were author by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison respectively. Since congress was firmly controlled by federalist, the fight against the alien & sedition acts moved to the state legislatures in late 1798. -
Mary V. Madison
Mary V. Madison was a U.S. supreme court case that established the principle of judicial review in the united states. The Supreme Court had the power of federal court to avoid of congress in conflict with the constitution, it was also importance judicial decision in the u.s history, the supreme court empowered itself to be the final authority on the legality of government activity. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France, the u.s. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for total of 86 million francs. The Louisiana Purchase is important because it gave the u.s. control of the Mississippi River and the port city of New Orleans. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine formerly part of Massachusetts as free. -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe doctrine was a united states policy of opposing european colonialism in the americas beginning in 1823. President James monroe first stated the doctrine during the seventh annual state of the union address to congress. The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy statement originally set forth in 1823 which created separate spheres of european and american influence. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a united states sectional political crisis in 1832, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson which involved a confrontation between south carolina and the federal government. The Nullification crisis was caused by the introduction of a series of protective tariffs. -
Texas Annexation
The Texas Annexation was the 1845 annexation of the republic of texas into the united states of america it was admitted to the union as the 28th state on December 29,1845. The annexation led quickly to war with mexico in 1846 the victorious united states came away with control of american southwest california through the treaty of guadalupe in 1848. -
Oregon Treaty
The Oregon treaty of 1846, this agreement set the boundary between the united states and canada at the 49th parallel west of the rocky mountains.The Oregon Treaty was one of the first successes of manifest destiny the signing was important because it showed the u.s. was willing to fight for westward expansion. -
Mexican Cession
The Mexican Cession is the region in the modern day southwestern united states that mexico ceded to the u.s. in the guadalupe hidalgo in 1848 after the american war. The mexican cession was important to our history after the war with mexican ended, the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo was signed. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican American War. The south gained by the strengthening of the fugitive slave law, the north gained a new free state, California. -
Bleeding (Bloody) Kansas
The Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.The Kansas is an important staging ground for what some people argue is the first battles of the Civil War, because it is this battlefield on which the forces of anti-slavery and the forces of slavery meet. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army. The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War. Fort Sumter is historically significant because it is the place where the first battle of the American Civil War was fought. -
Battle of Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County,Virginia, It was the first major battle of the American Civil War. It was the first major battle of the Civil War and resulted in a Confederate victory. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was a battle of the American Civil War, fought on September 17, 1862. The Battle of Antietam is considered the bloodiest day in the history of American war, with over 23,000 soldiers wounded, killed, or missing. The Union victory at Antietam resulted in President Abraham Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation led the way to total abolition of slavery in the United States. -
Battle of Vicksburg
The Battle of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. Union armies had gained two important victories at about the same time, the day after the battle of Gettysburg, Union forces defeated Confederate forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi. -
Battle of Gettyburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The Confederates were confident they would win the battle because Robert E. Lee had just led his army to victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Lincoln wasn't the keynote speaker. The Gettysburg Address is a speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the November 19, 1863, dedication of soldier's National Cemetery. -
13th amendment passed
The 13th amendment which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865 in the aftermath of the Civil War, abolished slavery in the United States. -
Kanas- Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The most important result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was its language concerning the contentious issue of slavery. -
14th amendment passed
The amendment grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States including former slaves and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.” -
15th amendment passed
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude.The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is important because it guarantees voting rights to all American males of all races. -
Plessy V. ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. The importance is that the Supreme Court decision made in 1896. The Court ruled on the concept of 'separate but equal' and set back civil rights in the United States for decades to come.