STAAR REVIEW 5 U.S. HISTORY

The founding of Jamestown

• Exploration/Colonization

• American Revolution

• Constitution

• New Republic

The Boston Tea Party becomes an act of civil disobedience

• American Revolution

• Exploration and Colonization

• Constitution

• New Republic

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are passed

• Westward Expansion/Industrial Revolution

• Reform

• Reconstruction

• Constitution

The Battle of Vicksburg gives the USA control of the Mississippi River

• Reconstruction

• Civil War

• Constitution

• Westward Expansion/ Industrial Revolution

Seneca Falls Convention is held in New York

• Civil War

• Constitution

• New Republic

• Reform

France comes to the New World and establishes a successful fur trade.

• New Republic

• Exploration/Colonization

• Constitution

• American Revolution

The Battle of Saratoga convinces the French to aid.

• New Republic

• American Revolution

• Exploration/Colonization

• Constitution

Texas is annexed in 1845

• Westward Expansion/Industrial Revolution

• New Republic

• American Revolution

• Exploration/Constitution

Abraham Lincoln is elected President

• New Republic

• Westward Expansion/Industrial Revolution

• Constitution

• Civil War

The Three-Fifths Compromise solves the issue of slave representation

• Civil War

• Reconstruction

• American Revolution

• Constitution