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The Starving Time
The Starving Time refers to the winter of 1609–1610 when only 60/500 colonists survived this terrible time. In Jamestown colonists died of starvation or starvation-related diseases becuase they relied too much on Powhatan and the supplies ships from England would bring. But when a hurricane delayed the ship of supplies and no rain came for the little amount of crops they had, everything went down hill. Disease, thirst, and starvation hit hard and many died. Some even resorted to cannibalism. -
The Feast
The English colonists we call Pilgrims celebrated days of thanksgiving as part of their religion. But these were days of prayer, not days of feasting. Our national holiday really stems from the feast held in the autumn of 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag to celebrate the colony's first successful harvest. -
Dainel Boone
Although born in 1734 he didn't become a hero til later in his life. Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. -
The American Revelution Begins
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which rebel colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, overthrew the authority of Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. -
The Bloody Massacre
Boston Massacre was a clash between British troops and townspeople in Boston in 1770, before the Revolutionary War. The British fired into a crowd that was threatening them, killing five, including Crispus Attucks. That unecassry fire of the gun from the British troops started a roit between them and the townspeople who were slautered in the streets because they had no weapons, but their hands to defend themselves. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party was an act of defiance toward the British government by American colonists; it took place in 1773, before the Revolutionary War. The government in London had given a British company the right to sell tea directly to the colonies, thereby undercutting American merchants. American colonists raided three ships in the Boston harbor, destroying their cargo of tea to protest a tax on tea imposed unilaterally on the American colonies by the British Parliament. -
Battle at Lexington
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. This was only the beginning of a greatt and horrifc war. -
The Declaration of Independance
Declaration of Independence was the fundamental document establishing the United States as a nation, adopted on July 4, 1776. The declaration was ordered and approved by the Continental Congress and written largely by Thomas Jefferson. -
End of the Revolutionary War
Congress ratified preliminary articles of peace ending the Revolutionary War with Great Britain on April 15, 1783. On September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, bringing the Revolutionary War to its final conclusion. -
First President and Vice President
John Adams was elected Vice President. Along with George Washington who was elected President and took the oath of office as the first President under the Constitution of the United States of America on April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York City although, at first, he had not wanted the position. -
World War II Begins
Though World War II began in 1939, conflict had befun long before. World War II in Europe began on 3rd September 1939, when the Prime Minister of Britain, declared war on Germany. It involved many of the world's countries. World War II was started by Germany in an unprovoked attack on Poland. -
Invention of the Atomic Bomb
The greatest success of the World War II coming to an end was the creation of the atomic bomb. This destroyed a whole city with one blow and created an explosion that was hotter than the surface of the sun. Not many people survived, but the ones that did surrendered in fear of other attacks. It was a glorious end to a horrific war. Soldiers gladly returned home and honored the men and women who gave their lives. -
World War II Ends
The war ended when Germany was defeated and the reamaining people in Japan surrendered after two atomic bombs had been dropped by the US. All the concetration camps were liberated by the US and Hitler comitted suicide. It was the end to a war that was hurting the whole nation. -
Age of Automobiles
The time after World War II was literally the “Age of Automobiles” and the nation thrived of the busy streets weaved throughout the lands. Now that people loved and owned cars they wanted homes of their own. This crave brought the production of suburbia. Houses were manufactured like crazy thanks to the production line system. The "Age of Automobiles" was only the beginning of a huge industry that is still on fire to this day.
