10 Important Events In U.S. History

By BeylaJ

  • Colonial Era

    Colonial Era
    The first colony was founded at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Many of the people who settled in the New World came to escape religious persecution.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    The Declaration of Independence, 1776. By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.

  • Slavery abolished

    Slavery abolished
    On December 18, the 13th Amendment was officially adopted into the Constitution, 246 years after the first shipload of captive Africans landed at Jamestown, Virginia, and were bought as slaves.

  • WWI

    WWI
    World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. effects of WW1 on America were wide-ranging covering the political, economic and social impact the Great War had on the United States.America had emerged as a world industrial leader and the US economy was booming, which led to the period in American history called the Roaring Twenties with a massive rise in consumerism for the wealthy.

  • Great Depression

    Great Depression
    Throughout the 1920s, the U.S. economy expanded rapidly, and the nation’s total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, a period dubbed “the Roaring Twenties.” On October 24, 1929, as nervous investors began selling overpriced shares en masse, the stock market crash that some had feared happened at last. A record 12.9 million shares were traded that day, known as “Black Thursday.”

  • WWII

    WWII
    World War II was the mightiest struggle humankind has ever seen. It killed more people, cost more money, damaged more property, affected more people, and caused more far-reaching changes in nearly every country than any other war in history. The number of people killed, wounded, or missing between September 1939 and September 1945 can never be calculated, but it is estimated that more than 55 million people perished.

  • Postwar America

    Postwar America
    The Cold War unfolded in the decade and a half after World War II, the United States experienced phenomenal economic growth. The war brought the return of prosperity, and in the postwar period the United States consolidated its position as the world's richest country.

  • Civil Rights Movement

    Civil Rights Movement
    The Civil Rights Law, a Johnson legacy, affected the nation profoundly as it for the first time prohibited discrimination in employment and businesses of public accommodation on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

  • Moon Landing

    Moon Landing
    This was the moment that Neil Armstrong stepped on to the lunar surface on 20 July 1969, and said the immortal words:"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." It was a moment that still defines what many have come to call the American century.

  • 911

    911
    The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001. 911 impacted the United States Air Travel, Government, Immigration, Tourism, and Deportations. (00:00 - 00:46) https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLgawtcOBBjr-LkrzSvVp5qy0fGuOMMlvu&v=QU5wv1dr8tE