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Oct 11, 1492
Christopher Columbus discovers America
Who: Christopher Columbus
Why:He was on a journey and luckily discovered land.
Where:In America
How:He was sailing three ships when he ran into land. -
Revolutionary War Begins
Who: Great Britain and its 13 Colonies
Where: Battle of Lexington and Concord
Why: A company of militiamen ambushed a British column marching to Concord to seize a supply of arms the Americans had been holding in that city.
How:Shots were fired. -
Declaration of Independence
Who: Second Continental Congress
Where: Pennsylvania
Why:To declare independence from Great Britain
How:The Congress adopted it and made it official -
Treaty of Paris
Who: King George lll and representatives of USA
Why: Officially ended the American Revolutionary War
Where: Paris
How: It was signed to end the war -
US Constitution Ratified
Who: New Hampshire Officialls
Where: New Hampshire
Why: They were the last state needed to ratify the constitution
How: They made the document the law of the land. -
Louisiana Purchase
Who:US, France
Where:Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north.
Why: Brought 828,000,000 square miles of land from France
How: Purchased the land to double what they already had. -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Who: Lewis and Clark
Where:Western part of the US
Why:First expedition to cross the western part of the US
How:By boat -
Civil War Begins
Who: Union, Confederate
Where:United States
Why:Began because of an assault on Fort Sumter
How:Because the USC guaranteed unequal rights in representation -
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
Who:Alexander Graham Bell
Where:Boston Massachusetts
Why:To improve the standard of living
How: Started off as an improvement on the telegram -
Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb
Who: Thomas Edison
Where: Menlo Park, New Jersey
Why:To bring a better way of seeing.
How:It is said that Thomas didn't truly invent the light bulb, only perfected it. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Who:Japanese forces
Where:Hawaii
Why:To keep US from interfering with military actions
How:Japan planned a surprise attack -
Holocaust
Who:Adolf Hitler, Jews
Where:Germany
Why:Hitler didn't like Jews because of their blonde hair and blue eyes
How:Hitler hanged alot of Jews -
Atomic Bombs are dropped on Japan
Who:Japan
Where:Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Why:The US threatened Japan
How:Two nuclear bombs were dropped by airplane -
Soviets launch Sputnik
Who:NASA, Soviets
Where:Space
Why:To get ahead in the "space race"
How:They launched the satellite into space -
Apollo 11 lands on the moon
Who:Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
Where:Moon
Why:They were the first people to land on the moon./ Ended the "space race".
How:They were launched into space and then landed on the moon.
