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These acts banned colonial merchants from shipping goods to foreign countries and limited which items could be imported to the colonies.

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Under that law, a tax was placed on the importation of sugar from the French West Indies, forcing the American rum distillers to buy more costly sugar from the British West Indies.

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The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the wars expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to American Revolution.

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It recognized the Indians´right to land to land and it did not allow colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. This made colonists very angry because they wanted to settle on the land and they did not want British soldiers to live among them.

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This act taxed anything printed on paper by requiring colonists to buy a stamp, or seal, for paper products.

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This act required to quarter, or house and feed, British soldiers.

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These acts made colonists pay taxes on imported tea, glass, paper, and other items to pay for rising military costs due to the Quartering Act.

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Colonists began to shout insults and throw snowballs at the soldier. Soon more soldiers arrived, and as mob grew louder and angrier, shots were fired. This deadly riot resulted in five colonists being killed that evening.

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This act made the british East India Company the only company allowed to sell tea to the colonies.

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This was a protest by American Colonists against the british government. They staged the protest by boarding three trade ships´cargo of tea overboard into the ocean.

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These acts were an effort to make the colonists pay for the tea to keep the colonists from planning other attacks. These laws stopped all trade between Boston and Britain, did not allow town meetings. gave Britain control of the colony of massachusetts, and strengthened the Quartering Act. Since the port of Boston was closed, the trading of goods between the colonies also stopped which greatly impacted the economies of all the colonies.

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The Battle Of Lexington And Concord 1775

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The Battle Of Lexington And Concord 1775

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The Battle Of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous " Shot Heard Around The World,¨ marked the start of the American War of Independence (1775-83). Politically disastrous for the British, it persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of independence.

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The Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776

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The Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776

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The Declaration of Independence is when the colonists´motivated to seek independence. By declaring themselves

an independent nation, the American colonists were able to confirm an official

alliance with the government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain.

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The winter of 1777-78 was not the coldest nor the worst winter experienced during the war, but regular freezing and thawing, plus intermittent snowfall and rain, coupled with shortages of provisions, clothing, and shoes, made living conditions extremely difficult.

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The Battle Of Yorktown Sept 28-Oct 19, 1781

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The Battle Of Yorktown Sept 28-Oct 19, 1781

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Outnumbered and outfought during a three-week siege in which they sustained great losses, British troops surrendered to the Continental Army and their French allies. This last major land battle of the American Revolution led to negotiations for peace with the British and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

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The U.S Constitution comprises the primary law of the U.S Federal Government. It describes the three chief branches of the Federal Government and their Jurisdictions, and lays out the basic rights of citizens of the United States.

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During the French and Indian War, France had given much of its land in North America to Spain to prevent the British from getting control of it.

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Manifest Destiny is the belief that the US was fated to stretch from the Atlantic to the pacufic ocean.

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Before our story really starts, the Cherokee were living fairly peacefully in their ancestral homeland. They farmed the fertile land, and hunted. They had their own constitution, religion, and Government. When gold was found on Cherokee land, the whites wanted the Native Americans gone so they could farm the rich land and mine the gold. When the Government brought the matter of the Supreme Court, it ruled in favor of the Cherokee, saying they could only begin an ¨Indian Removal Act¨ if the Indians sighed a new treaty, agreeing to the plan. Most of the Cherokee didn´t want to move, and John Ross (a Cherokee leader) thought they were safe. However, three rebellious tribe members (led by John Ridge) signed the treaty. Ross and his followers found out, and the signers were Killed. By that time, though, it was too late. ¨The Indian Removal Act¨ had begin.

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When the south decited to break away from the rest of the US

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On April 12, 1861, forces from the Confederate States of America attacked the United States military garrison.

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In 1863, president Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and declared the end of slavery in confedertet states.

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Abrham lincoln gave his speeach in honner of the people that died is the name in serves.

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Serman went out with his army after getting aprovel from aberham lincoln, he went out in town near the cost and distroed the town.

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¨It’s one of the most momentous events in American history: Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, which effectively ended the Civil War, although other southern forces would still be surrendering into May. It was momentous yet modest and low-key as the two generals met with just a few aides in the small parlor of Wilmer McLean’s house in Appomattox, Virginia. A small irony is that McLean was present at both the beginning and the end of the war: he had moved from his original house on the Bull Run battlefield to get as far away from the theater of war as possible.

The meeting at the McLean house was the climax of a year’s campaigning after Grant had moved against Lee in May 1864, initiating the Overland Campaign, with its near-constant warfare. By constantly engaging the Army of Northern Virginia, Grant had pressured Lee to move south and east in keeping the Union army away from Richmond.

By June the armies had reached stasis as they entrenched around Petersburg; nine months of siege warfare followed. The pressure finally told: by March 1865, Lee’s army was wearing out, desertion rates were high, and resupply of everything from ammunition to food became impossible. Lee tried to buy time with an assault late that month, but it failed.

A Union counterassault finally forced Lee away from Petersburg and Richmond, both of which fell on April 3. Grant continued to harry Lee as the Confederate army attempted to escape south to find supplies and make join General Joe Johnston, who was retreating through the Carolinas, pursued by William Tecumseh Sherman’s Union army. The end came suddenly, after a brief exchange of correspondence in which Grant urged upon Lee the hopelessness of his position. The meeting at the McLean house was the result.

Alonzo Chappel’s homely little painting depicts the scene as it was, avoiding the pomp of later depictions, in which the room has grown in size and is crowded with staff officers. Lee had dressed in his best uniform for the saddest moment in his life, while Grant was more casually turned out because his dress uniform was miles away in the Union baggage train.

As might be expected, the occasion was awkward, and the two generals exchanged small talk until Lee reminded Grant why they were there. Grant, who had the ability for swift and clear written expression, quickly drafted the terms of surrender, which focused only on military matters. Lee asked that the southerners be allowed to keep their horses, which they owned; Grant agreed. Grant also agreed to distribute rations to the hungry Confederate army.

Formalities concluded, the group went back outside, and Lee rode away on his famous battle horse, Traveller. Union troops began to cheer as news spread of the war’s end. A celebratory cannonade began, but Grant ordered it stopped in respect for the defeated foe, “as we did not want to exult over their downfall.”

The terms that Grant imposed—and Lee accepted—were one of the last notes of clarity as the war ended and Reconstruction began. When William Tecumseh Sherman accepted Joseph Johnston’s surrender in North Carolina on April 26, he unwisely included political commitments about the postwar South; Andrew Jackson’s new administration forced him to backtrack. The incident presaged the moral and political confusion of Reconstruction, especially over the condition of the now-free slaves.

In retrospect, the surrender at Appomattox has become invested with nostalgia in part because of the dignified and humane conduct of both Grant and Lee in this final act of a heroic and tragic year of war between America’s two greatest generals.¨

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On the morning of April 14, 1865 (Good Friday), actor John Wilkes Booth learned President Abraham Lincoln would attend a performance of the comedy Our American Cousin that night at Ford’s Theatre—a theatre Booth frequently performed at. He realized his moment had arrived.

By 10:15 that evening, the comedy was well into its last act. In the Presidential Box, President and Mrs. Lincoln and their guests, Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancée, Clara Harris, laughed at the show along with the audience—not knowing that Booth was just outside the door. lincoln was killed.