American dream project

  • America is colonized

    America is colonized
    British colonization of the Americas. British colonization of the Americas (including colonization by both the English and the Scots) began in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia, and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas.
  • slavery begins

    slavery begins
    The first 19 or so Africans to reach the English colonies arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, brought by Dutch traders who had seized them from a captured Spanish slave ship.
  • French and Indian War starts

    French and Indian War starts
    In the 1750s, Britain and France had colonies in North America. The British wanted to settle in the Ohio River Valley and to trade with the Native Americans who lived there. The French built forts to protect their trade with the Indians. In 1754, George Washington led an army against the French.
  • The first continental congress

    The first continental congress
    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
  • Revolutionary War begins

    Revolutionary War begins
    The American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence, was an 18th-century war between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America
  • The constitution is formed

    The constitution is formed
    The drafting of the Constitution of the United States began on May 25, 1787, when the Constitutional Convention met for the first time with a quorum at the Pennsylvania State House
  • industrial revolution is stated in Great Britian

    industrial revolution is stated in Great Britian
    The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain in the late 18th century because of the country's large labour supply, plentiful natural resources, and overseas markets for manufactured goods
  • Louisiana purchase

    Louisiana purchase
    The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
  • War of 1812

    War of 1812
    The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.
  • opium war starts

    opium war starts
    The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving China and the British Empire over the British trade of opium and China's sovereignty.
  • Beginning of Mexican-American war

    Beginning of Mexican-American war
    The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848.
  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
  • Crimean War starts

    Crimean War starts
    The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.
  • Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott Case
    n March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in that case, which had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri.
  • Lincoln is elected

    Lincoln is elected
    The 1860 United States presidential election was the nineteenth quadrennial presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860.
  • 13th Amendment ratified

    13th Amendment ratified
    The amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December 6, 1865. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed its adoption
  • 13th Amendment ratified

    13th Amendment ratified
    It was an amendment that was passed that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
  • Transcontintal Railroad completed

    Transcontintal Railroad completed
    The East and the West were connected and the idea of Manifest Destiny was growing
  • Ellis island accepts immigrants

    Ellis island accepts immigrants
    Ellis island is one of the largest ports in the country. It starts accepting immigrants and it was a symbol of freedom .
  • Wright Brothers first flight

    Wright Brothers first flight
    The Wright brothers completed the first controlled flight. It paved the way for new inventions and innovations in the future.
  • The United States enter WW2

    The United States enter WW2
    America entered the war and sided with the allies. Britain was the reason the United States jointed the war because they targeted US shipping ships.
  • 19th Amendment was passed

    19th Amendment was passed
    The 19th Amendment is passed. Granted women the right to vote.Provided men and women with equal rights .
  • ww1 ended

    ww1 ended
    The allies come out as winners and America come out with its first war as an established country. Germany had surrendered and a peace treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919
  • Stock market crash of 1929

    Stock market crash of 1929
    right when the economy was booming and everything was doing good, the stock market crashed, which sent America into a decade a depression
  • The Star spangled banner was adopted by congress

    The Star spangled banner was adopted by congress
    The Star Spangled Banner was adopted by congress in 1931 and became America's national anthem.
  • Caraway becomes first women elected into US senate

    Caraway becomes first women elected into US senate
    She made a monumental change for women when she was elected as the first female senator. This showed that America was becoming a place of equality and equal opportunity.
  • Amelia Earhart flies transatlantic

    Amelia Earhart flies transatlantic
    Amelia Earhart becomes the first women to fly the transatlantic in 1932.
  • New Deal created by FDR

    New Deal created by FDR
    FDR passed many government deals during his time as president trying to get America out of the Great Depression. His deals did give many Americans jobs and hope for a better future.
  • America enters WW2

    America enters WW2
    After the bombing of pearl harbor, America enters the war and declared war on Japan.
  • Atomic bomb dropped

    Atomic bomb dropped
    Atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in a response to them bombing Pearl Harbor.
  • first hydrogen bomb detonated

    first hydrogen bomb detonated
    The United States successfully detonates the first ever hydrogen bomb in the island of Enewetak
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    The Warsaw Pact was a defense treaty that was signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and the seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of central and eastern Europe
  • Alaska become a state

    Alaska become a state
    Alaska become a state on January 3, 1959
  • Civil rights act

    Civil rights act
    ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination
  • Malcolm X assassinated

    Malcolm X assassinated
    Malcolm X was shot while he was preparing to give a speech to the Afro American unity in Manhattan.
  • Martin Luther King Jr dies

    Martin Luther King Jr dies
    Martin Luther King was shot on the balcony of his hotel room while he was visiting Memphis, Tennessee