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America Wins Revolutionary War
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history The war started from tensions between residents in Great Britain. Conflicts between British troops and colonial militiamen kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for independence. America won the Revolutionary War on July 4th, 1783. -
Missouri Compromise
http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise To keep the peace, Congress made a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request, for admission to the Union as a slave state, but also admitting Maine as a free state. It also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory, establishing a boundary between free and slave regions. -
Manifest Destiny
http://www.history.com/topics/manifest-destiny Manifest Destiny was the expansion of America from coast to coast. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
http://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. -
Dred Scott Case
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/dred- Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri, argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation. The court found that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S. citizenship and were unable to petition the court for their freedom. The Dred Scott decision incensed abolitionists and heightened North-South tensions, which would erupt in war three years later. -
Anaconda Plan
http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-anaconda-plan-civil-war-strategy.html The Anaconda Plan was a strategy for strangling the Southern Confederacy, much like an Anaconda, to win the Civil War. It was never officially adopted by the Union government. -
Sherman's March
The purpose of the “Sherman's March” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. -
Emancipation Proclamation
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/ It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border-states. It also exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union military victory. -
54th Massachusetts Regiment
http://www.masshist.org/online/54thregiment/essay.php?entry_id=528 The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was the first military unit consisting of black soldiers raised in the North during the Civil War. -
Lincoln's Assassination
http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. -
The First Transcontinental Railroad
http://www.uni.edu/icss/timeline/7events.html The construction of the railroad would link the eastern railways with the Pacific Ocean.
