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| in 1675 between the Wampanoags and the Plymouth colonists, which was ignited by the hanging of three Wampanoags for killing a Christian Indian. |
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| 1763 - An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottowa chief named Pontiac. They opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley and began destroying British forts in the area. The attacks ended when Pontiac was killed. |
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| A mob of Pennsylvania frontiersmen led by the Paxtons who massacred a group of non-hostile Indians. |
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| Taking place between 1775-1783, also reffered to as American War of Independence, between British colonies and Great Britain. Loyalists were colonists which sided with Great Britain, while Patriots fought for America's independence. |
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| 1797 incident in which French officials demanded a bribe from U.S. diplomats, under John Adams presidency. |
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| Under the Madison Presidency, deciding to go to war against Britain, Madison believed the Mritain was trying to strangle American trade and cripple the American economy. Native Americans sided with both British and Americans. Tecumseh along with many others fought with British with hopes of continuing British aid in stopping U.S. expansion. British ordered a blockade on Chesapeake and Deleware bays, by 1814 British were burning towns and homes along atlantic coast in retaliation for the US victory in battle of York, British burned the Capitol, and White House. Treaty of Ghent was signed ending the war before Jackson’s main victory. Andrew Jackson lead the battle of new Orleans in 1815 which defeated superior British force. |
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| Aroostook War
Maine lumberjacks camped along the Aroostook Rive in Maine in 1839 tried to oust Canadian rivals. Militia were called in from both sides until the Webster Ashburn - Treaty was signed. Took place in disputed territory. |
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| Taking place between 1861 and 1865, beginning as a result of the southern states’ seccession. This caused the United State’s to have two different identities, Confederacy versus The Union, Americans thought it would be a short war, Fort Sumter began the war. |
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| Venezuelan Boundary Dispute |
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| Venezuelan boundary dispute
Dispute between the U.S. and Britain involving the point at which the Venezuela / Columbia border was drawn. Britain eventually won the dispute. |
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| Taking place between 1914 and 1919 , beginning with Gernamny invaded Belgium. Allied powers including Russia, France, Italy, England, America/ Central Powers included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman empire. |
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| Taking place between 1942 and 1944,; the rise of rulers with total power in Europe and Asia, Germans used sudden mass attack called blitzkrieg and invaded and conquered many Europeon Countries, America joins the war after Pearl Harbor attack. |
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| Confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. |
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| Under LBJ’s presidency, multiple programs with the purpose of halting the spread of communism around the world, troops were sent over to fight directly with the north Vietnamese (communists) and support the south Vietnamese. |
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| Tiny Caribbean Island, which developed ties with Communistic Cuba, Reagan sent 2,000 troops which over-threw the pro-cuban government and replaced with an American friendly government. 18 casualties. |
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| Conflict that was triggered by a dispute over oil-drilling rights, leading to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. This war ended when the U.S. intervened, crushing Iraqi resistance and liberating Kuwait. |
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| April 19, 1774
General Gage, stationed in Boston, was ordered by King George III to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The British marched on Lexington, where they believed the colonials had a cache of weapons. The colonial militias, warned beforehand by Paul Revere and William Dawes, attempeted to block the progress of the troops and were fired on by the British at Lexington. The British continued to Concord, where they believed Adams and Hancock were hiding, and they were again attacked by the colonial militia. As the British retreated to Boston, the colonials continued to shoot at them from behind cover on the sides of the road. This was the start of the Revolutionary War. |
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| a turning point in the American Revolution. The American victory in this battle convinced France that Americans could win the war, and it allied itself with the Americans. |
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| Battle of Washington D.C. |
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| Washington D.C. was captured and burned by the British in 1814, during the war of 1812. |
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| Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, lead by William Henry Harrison against the native Americans shortly before the war of 1812 broke out. |
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| during the Mexican American war, troops seized the port of Veracruz, with the Army being led by Winfield Scott. Results: U.S. captured Mexico City, Zachary Taylor was elected president, Santa Ana abdicated, and Mexico ceded large parts of the West, including New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, to the U.S. |
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| The first major land battle in the Civil War. It was also known as First Manasas. |
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| The bloodiest in American history to that date. It happened from April 6-7, 1862. |
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| A strategic victory in the West. It gave the Union the control of the Mississippi River. |
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| July of 1898; an infantry attack on a strategically important location in the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was declared the hero of San Juan Hill in U.S. newspapers after the major victory. |
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| Part of the war in the pacific (1942-1945) , 19,000 American troops stormed the Solomon Islands, marking Japan’s first defeat on land but not it’s last. This began Americans leapfrogging across the Pacific toward Japan. |
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| - a base from which heavily loaded bombers might reach Japan, critical to the U.S.- greatest number in any battle in the Pacific to that point. Lead by MacArthur and other Allies attack on the heavily guarded and defended spot with 27,000 Japanese troops. Only 200 Japanese survived leading to the final assault on Japan. |
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| Treaty between Britain, France, and Spain, which ended the Seven Years War (and the French and Indian War). France lost Canada, the land east of the Mississippi, some Caribbean islands and India to Britain. France also gave New Orleans and the land west of the Mississippi to Spain, to compensate it for ceeding Florida to the British. |
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| It was signed in the hopes of settling the growing conflicts between the U.S. and Britain. It dealt with the Northwest posts and trade on the Mississippi River. It was unpopular with most Americans because it did not punish Britain for the attacks on neutral American ships. It was particularly unpopular with France, because the U.S. also accepted the British restrictions on the rights of neutrals. |
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| Signed on Christmas Eve 1814, it restored the status quo ante bellum (the state of things before the war); the United States neither gained nor lost territory. Several additional issues, including fixing a boundary between the United States and Canada, were referred to joint commissions for future settlement. Nothing was done about impressment, but the end of the war in Europe made neutral rights a dead issue. |
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| Agreement in 1819 between Spain and the US where Spain ceded East Florida to the United States, renounced its claims to West Florida, and agreed to a southern border of the United States west of the Mississippi that ran north along the Sabine River (separating Texas from Louisiana) and then westward along the Red and Arkansas Rivers to the Rocky Mountains, finally following the forty-second parallel to the Pacific. In effect, the United States conceded that Texas was not part of the Louisiana Purchase, while Spain agreed to a northern limit to its claims to the West Coast. It thereby left the United States free to pursue its interests in Oregon. |
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| Germany was ordered to pay fines to the Allies to repay the costs of the war. Opposed by the U.S., it quickly lead to a severe depression in Germany |
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| Agreements that were signed by Egypt's President Sadat and Israel's Prime Minister Begin following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. |
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| 1798 - A commission had been sent to France in 1797 to discuss the disputes that had arisen out of the U.S.'s refusal to honor the Franco-American Treaty of 1778. President Adams had also criticized the French Revolution, so France began to break off relations with the U.S. Adams sent delegates to meet with French foreign minister Talleyrand in the hopes of working things out. Talleyrand’s three agents told the American delegates that they could meet with Talleyrand only in exchange for a very large bribe. The Americans did not pay the bribe, and in 1798 Adams made the incident public, substituting the letters "X, Y and Z" for the names of the three French agents in his report to Congress. |
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| Replaced the Embargo of 1807. Unlike the Embargo, which forbade American trade with all foreign nations, this act only forbade trade with France and Britain. It did not succeed in changing British or French policy towards neutral ships, so it was replaced by Macon’s Bill No. 2. |
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| The recommendation that the U.S. offer Spain $20 million for Cuba. It was not carried through in part because the North feared Cuba would become another slave state. |
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| held before the outbreak of World War II. Issued the Declaration of Lima asserting the unity of the Latin American nations and their determination to resist al forms of foreign agression. |
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| passed during the Spanish American war stating the United States had no intention of taking over any par of Cuba ( the Treaty of Paris which ended the war further guaranteed Cuba the independence that it’s nationalist leaders had demanded for years) |
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| Roosevelt’s addition to the Monroe Doctrine, stating disorder in Latin America would force the US to the exercise of an international police power, The corollary said that the US would now use force to protect its economic interests in Latin America. |
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| The United States had a moral responsibility to deny recognition to any Latin American government it viewed as oppressive, undemocratic, or hostile to U.S. interests. Prior to this policy the US recognized any government that controlled a nation, reguardless of that nation’s policies or how it had come to power. |
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| Post WWI depression in Germany left it unable to pay reparation and Germany defaulted on its payments in 1923. In 1924, U.S. Vice President Charles Dawes formulated a plan to allow Germany to make its reparation payments in annual installments. This plan was renegotiated and modified in 1929 by U.S. financier Owen Young. |
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| 1909 - International Naval Conference held in London to adopt an international code of conduct for naval warfare. |
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| Doctrine which proclaimed three key principles: that unless American interests were involved, U.S. policy was to abstain from European wars; that the "American continents" were not "subjects for future colonization by any European power"; and that the United States would construe any attempt at European colonization in the New World as an "unfriendly act. |
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| This amendment authorized American withdrawal only after Cuba agreed not to make any treaty with a foreign power limiting its independence and not to borrow beyond its means. |
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| Washington Naval Arms Conference |
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| Conference called by Secretary of State Hughes to address the problem of the United States, Great Britian and Japan edging toward a dangerous (and costly) naval-arms race. |
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