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Battle of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under fire. -
Battle of Saratoga
On September 19th, British General John Burgoyne achieved a small, but costly victory over American forces led by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold. Though his troop strength had been weakened, Burgoyne again attacked the Americans at Bemis Heights on October 7th, but this time was defeated and forced to retreat. He surrendered ten days later, and the American victory convinced the French government to formally recognize the colonist’s cause and enter the war as their ally. -
Battle of Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown. British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis surrendered to Washington in the field at Yorktown on October 17, 1781, effectively ending the War for Independence.Although the war persisted on the high seas and in other theaters. -
Northwest Ordinance
The northwest ordinance was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 13,1787. 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. We acquire it because of the Treaty of Paris in (1783).
We got it from Great Britain. The northwest ordinance added 5 states. -
Alien and Sedition Act
The alien and sedition act was passed by the federalist congress in 1798. It was also signed into law by president Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. Alien limits immigration and Sedition limits freedom of speech. The alien and sedition act violated the 1st amendent.
The alien and sedition act is important to US history because it made it hard for immigrants to vote. -
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799. The Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.Thomas Jefferson and James Madison pen the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions. These states were attempting to nullify or go above a federal law. The controversy over states rights will continue to faster throughout the next 60 years. -
Marbury v. Madison
The U.S. supreme court case Marbury v. Madison established the judicial review. Court ruled that the judicial branch has the power to examine the constitution and say what the law is. President John Adams named William Marbury as one of forty-two justices of the peace on March 2, 1801. John Adams appoints the Midnight Judges in the last moments of his presidency. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the united states and France. President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory through the Louisiana Purchase treaty of France. Napoleon needed money to finance the French Revolution. Jefferson pursued the purchase of Louisana,despite misgivings over the constitutionality of the purchase. Lewis and Clark were sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase but they fought the Northwest passage. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise was a legislation that provided the united states to allowed Maine to enter as a free state while Missouri entered as a slave state. To maintain the balance of power between the North and South in the united states. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri. The 16th United States Congress passed the legislation on March 9, 1820, and President James Monroe signed it on May 6, 1820 -
Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy regarding European countries in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.the doctrine noted that the U.S. would recognize and not interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries.the Doctrine was issued on December 2, 1823. -
Nullification Crisis
States rights-states have the right to declare a federal law or tax null and void if it harms that state. Representatives from the north are going to suppose a very high protective tariffs. the federal govt. passed a very high protective tariff, which angered the south.
John C. Calhoun attempted to nullify the tariff stating south Carolina wouldn't pay. The judicial branch is the only one that can nullify law. -
Texas Annexation
The Texas Annexation was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America.The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2, 1836. Americans in the Mexican controlled territory of Texas declared Independence from Mexico after Mexico outlawed slavery. -
Oregon Treaty
Jointly occupied by the Americans,the British, and the Spanish.
Conflict between the Americans and the British led to negotiations of the British-American border. American newspaper headlined 54'40 or Fight supporting war with the British over the territory. Negotiations led to the Oregon Treaty of 1846 granting US control south of the 49th parallel and avoiding war. The Oregon Treaty was signed on June 15,1846. -
Mexican Cession (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
Mexican Cession contained territories that made up most of the rest of the southwestern United States which the US acquired after the Mexican-American War. The Mexican Cession completed Manifest Denstiny by giving Americans control of land from sea to sea. The war officially ended with the February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Mexican Cession added 6 states. The US gets land from Mexico. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was 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. -
Bleeding (Bloody) Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War 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. -
Kansas - Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.the bill overturned the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory. The conflicts that arose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in the aftermath of the act’s passage led to the period of violence known as Bleeding Kansas. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The battle of Fort Sumter began on April 12,1861,when confederate forces fired on the union held garrison. Major Anderson,the garrison commander, surrendered the fort on April 13th and was evacuated the next day. -
Battle of Bull Run
The battle of bull run was on July 21,1861 in Virginia. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War.Each side had about 18,000 poorly trained and poorly led troops in their first battle. It was a Confederate victory, followed by a disorganized retreat of the Union forces. The event began when about 35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington, D.C. to strike a Confederate force of 20,000 along a small river. -
Battle of Antietam
The battle of Antietam was a battle of the civil war, and was fought on September 17,1862. Between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army and Union General George B. McClellan's Army. It was the bloodiest day in United States history, with a combined tally of 22,717 dead, wounded, or missing. -
Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech that Abraham Lincoln gave during the Civil War. Lincoln visits the Gettysburg battlefield to dedicate a cemetery for the fallen soldiers. He describes the Civil War as a struggle to fulfill the Declaration of Independence and a preserve a nation. ''dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation freed 0 slaves on Jan. 1 1863. The emancipation proclamation strengthen the moral,allowed African Americans to fight in the war on the union side. Lincoln defined the proclamation as a necessary war measure. Lincoln didn't issue the emancipation proclamation sooner because of trying to pacify the border states. -
Battle of Vicksburg
The battle of Vicksburg was located in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Warren County. It started on May 18 and ended on July 4 1863. The general's that was involved was Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant as Union and Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton as Confederate. The union had 75,000 soldiers engaged and the confederate had 34,000 soldiers engaged. The outcome of the war was a victory for The Union. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The battle of Gettysburg started on July 1,1863 and ended July 3,1863. is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. General Robert E. Lee marched his Army into Pennsylvania. On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg.The next day saw even heavier fighting, as the Confederates attacked the Federals on both left and right. -
13th amendment passed
The 13th amendment abolished slavery. passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. On February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln approved the Joint Resolution of Congress submitting the proposed amendment to the state legislatures. -
14th amendment passed
The 14th 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 the states of the defeated Confederacy, which were forced to ratify it in order to regain representation in Congress. The amendment limits the actions of all state and local officials, including those acting on behalf of such an official. -
15th amendment passed
The 15th amendment states that all men are created equal and prohibits each state from denying any citizen from voting because of their race or color. The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869, and ratified by the states on February 3, 1870. -
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Plessy v. Ferguson was an 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African-American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks.