• Independence

  • Constitution Ratification

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • Texas Independence,

  • Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • The South Caroline Secession

  • Fort Sumter

  • The Battle of Antietam

    On September 17, 1862, Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on northern soil
  • The Battle of Vicksburg

    May 18 - July 4, 1863
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    July 1–3, 1863
  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    July 1–3, 1863
  • Surrender at Appomattox

    Lee and Grant met to arrange a Confederate surrender on April 9, 1865, in a Virginia village called Appomattox