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The American Revolution
The American Revolution was a rebellion and political revolution in the Thirteen Colonies, which saw colonists initiate a war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain. It was important because it gave us our national independence and committed the new nation to the ideal of personal independence. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence which was formally titled The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, is the founding document of the United States. This was written to explain the colonist's right to evolution. -
US Constitution ratified
The US Constitution was to create a government with enough power to act on a national level, but without so much power that fundamental rights would be at risk. It was ratified because they believed that it would demonstrate that the new constitution would be established by the will of the people rather than by a few political elites in state legislatures. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. -
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Lewis and Clark Expedition which was also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. They did this expedition to establish a trade network across the country to befriend the American Indians encountered, and to confirm or deny the theory of an all-water Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. -
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The American Civil War
The American Civil War was when the Union Army fought against the Confederate States of America over the moral issues of slavery. At the end of the war, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to Union Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. -
The Gettysburg Adress
The Gettysburg Address was a speech that President Abraham Lincoln said during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery, it is now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery. The main message of the Gettysburg Address was "Ideals are worth dying for and that it is up to the living to carry on the work of those who died to protect Ideals. -
Abraham Lincoln's assassination
Abraham Lincoln got assassinated inside the Peterson House in Washington D.C. A person named John Wilkes Booth snuck up behind him with a Derringer pistol which only carried one shot and had very short range, and shot him in the back of the head. He then jumped off the stage and injured his leg badly but had a horse out in the back of the place to easily escape. -
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The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age was a time of great political corruption and wealth inequality in the late 1800s. At the end of the Gilded Age, a two-term president named William McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz after he shot him twice in the abdomen in 1901. -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone because it was through his work with the deaf and his careful study of how sound is transmitted via the human voice. The first words said on the telephone were "Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you". -
Thomas Edison perfects the lightbulb