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Founding of Jamestowne
104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
In this first battle of the American Revolution, Massachusetts colonists defied British authority, outnumbered and outfought the Redcoats, and embarked on a lengthy war to earn their independence.The United Sates won these battles. -
The signing of the Declaration of Independence
The Declartion of Independence was a document stating the grievances against the King. It was created in order to show they had valid reasoning to break away from Great Britian. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans. -
Signing of Consitution
The Signing of the United States Constitution occurred on September 17, 1787, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, representing 12 states (all but Rhode Island, which declined to send delegates). -
Washington Becomes Presdient
George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American soldier, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797. -
Election of 1800
Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated Federalist John Adams by a margin of seventy-three to sixty-five electoral votes in the presidential election of 1800. ... With the votes tied, the election was thrown to the House of Representatives as required by Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from Napoleonic France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi -
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln , the 16th president, was attending the theater with his wife. While, the president was watching th show John Wikes Booth shot the president in the head killing him on the spot. -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed by the U.S. Congress in 1820. ... Congress agreed to admit Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. The compromise also banned slavery from any future territories or states north of Missouri's southern border. -
Nullification Crisis
The nullification crisis was a conflict between the U.S. state of South Carolina and the federal government of the United States in 1832–33. ... Calhoun, who opposed the federal imposition of the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 and argued that the U.S. Constitution gave states the right to block the enforcement of a federal law. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia (the Confederate Army did not yet exist), and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead. -
Conderate Surrender
After the fall of Richmond, the Confederate capital, on April 2, 1865, officials in the Confederate government, including President Jefferson Davis, fled. The dominoes began to fall. The surrender at Appomattox took place a week later on April 9. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army. General Custard and his men were all killed.