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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War, which is also called the Seven Years war was just one chapter of the conflict between France and Britain. Britain declared war after France began expanding into British territory, and Britain won the war under William Pitt and obtained the territory of Canada. It is called the French and Indian War because the French and Native Americans were Britain's two greatest enemies. -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition from hand manufacturing to manufacturing using machines. Chemical and iron production processes were used to improve and increase the efficiency of water and steam power. The machine that is often considered the heart of the Industrial Revolution is the first industrial mill which was created by Samuel Slater in 1790. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party occurred when several members of the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and dumped a shipment of tea from the East India Company into the Boston Harbor. They did this as an act of protest against the Tea Act that Britain had passed onto the american citizens that taxed them for tea. -
Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War was the series of conflicts between Great Britain and the 13 colonies. The Americans felt that the taxes that were being imposed upon them by Britain were unfair, so they wanted to become independent. France was a great ally for the Americans in this war, because France wanted to get back at Britain after losing the French and Indian War. -
Constitution
The Constitution of the United States was written by James Madison. It is a document that outlines how the government and laws of the United States are to be broken up, used, acted on, and followed. It is the supreme law of the land. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was an incredibly popular belief in the United States, that it was the destiny of the United States settlers to expand across North America. They believed that it was their inevitable mission to remake the west. This belief was the fuel for Western settlement. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition was the fist ever American expedition that crossed the West of what is now the United States. The expedition was lead by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who were sent out with a group of men to map and explore the new territories acquired during the Louisiana Purchase. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was devised by Henry Clay to regulate slavery in the Western territories. The act prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana territory, except within the boundaries of Missouri. The Missouri Compromise lasted 34 years, but was repealed by the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent interactions between pro-slavery members from the South and anti-slavery members from the North. The conflict was caused by the question of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state, or as a slave state. -
Civil War
The Civil War began when 7 southern states decided they wanted to separate from the United States and form the Confederate States of America. The 7 states eventually became 11 states, who fought against the remaining states who were known as the Union. The Civil War ended in 1865 when the Robert E. Lee and the Confederates surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while he was watching a play at Ford's Theatre at the end of the Civil War. He was assassinated by a man named John Wilkes Boothe, who believed that he would be considered a national hero for killing the President. He shot President Lincoln in the back of the head and he died the following morning. -
Reconstruction Era
The Reconstruction Era was the period after the Civil War from 1865-1877 in which the South was transformed to fit into the new system of government and rights. There was a reconstruction of state and society, as directed by Congress, which included upgrading the rights of the freedmen.
