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The Declaration of Independence, approved by the Continental Congress, announced the separation of the 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain, outlining the reasons for this separation and asserting fundamental rights. -
The Constitutional Convention, held in Philadelphia, aimed to address the weakness of the articles of confederation and resulted in the creation of the U.S constitution, establishing a new framework for the federal government. -
the bill of rights, comprising the first ten ammendments to us U.S constitution, guarantees fundamental rights and civil liberties, limiting government power and protecting individual freedoms like speech, religion, and the right to bear arms. -
The Whiskey Rebellion was a 1794 uprising is Western, PA against a federal excise tax on distilled spirits,primarrily whiskey, which was a major source of income to small farmers in the region. The rebellion demonstrated the new governments ability to enforce federal laws and set a precedent for suppresing resistance to taxation. -
The Louisiana Purchase was the 1803 acquisition of a vast territory from France by the U.S, roughly doubling the size of the country and extending its land from the Mississippi river to the Rocky Mountains. -
The dred scott case is a pivotal moment in U.S history, with the supreme court ruling that enslaved people, including dred scott, were not citizens and could not sue the federal court, and that congress lacked the power to prohibit slavery in territories, effectivley invalidating the Missouri compromise and further fueling tensions leading to the Civil War. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed in 1854, repealed the Missouri compromise, allowing residents of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty leading to a violent conflict knows as bleeding kansas and further dividing the nation. -
The Emancipitation Proclimation, issued by president Abraham Lincoln, declared enslaved people in conferderate states free, but it didnt free slaves in border states or areas under union control, and its effectivness depended on union victory. -
These amendments, known as the reconstruction ammendments, were passed after the civil war to address slavery and ensure equal rights for formerly enslaved people, including abolishing slavery, establishing citizenship, and guaranteeing voting rights. -
Kennedy was killed in Dallas,TX on November 22.1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding a motorcycle with his wife.