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Plymouth Colony
Plymouth colony is found by William Bradford in Modern day Massachusetts. Plymouth Colony was an English colony in North America from 1620 to 1691 at a location that had previously been surveyed and named by Captain John Smith. The settlement served as the capital of the colony and developed as the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. -
French and Indian War
French and Indian breaks out between England and French colonist over territorial disputes. 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. -
Revolutionary war
Colonist resists against King George and creates the first world war. Trapped between American and French forces on land and the French fleet on the sea, Cornwallis surrendered on October 19, 1781. This was the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. The Americans and the French each signed independent treaties with Britain. -
George Washington
George Washington becomes the first president of America the only president to be unanimously voted. George Washington was an American political leader, military general, statesman, freemason and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States. He commanded Patriot forces in the new nation's vital American Revolutionary War and led them to victory over the British. -
Louisiana Purchase
President Thomas Jefferson makes a deal with Napoleon and receives the Louisiana territory for 15 million dollars. The Louisiana Purchase 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. -
War of 1812
Britain vs America round 2. America is required to defend themselves again, Andrew Jackson emerges as a hero. The conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent. -
Andrew Jackson elected president
Hero of New Orleans Andrew Jackson is elected as president of the US known as the man of the people. -
The Speech
William Henry Harrison delivers the longest inaugural address in history on a cold and rainy day that eventually gives him pneumonia. He then dies 30 days after being in office. -
Civil War
Civil War begins when South Carolina and 10 other Confederate states attack fort sumpter and people come to watch but what they see is nothing that they expected. -
Lincoln killed
John Wilks Booth takes matters into his own hands. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater in Washington DC on April 14 after the war was over. -
Reconstruction
The aftermath of the Civil War brought about great change. Many slaves were freed, yet heavy discrimination was still evident in the south. Radical Republicans were very helpful in the segregation of free men. -
Prohibition
The 18th amendment is created to promote the WW1 effort. This made all alcohol distribution and consumption illegal, which spiked the movement for organized crime. -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh makes his famous trip his famous trip across the Atlantic and lands miraculously in France. His plane stripped of many items to allow for more gasoline. Things such as a windshield were missing from his famous plane the "Spirit of St Louis". -
Great Deprresion
Stock Market crashes and the Great Depression strikes. Millions are unemployed and government intervention is required. The run on the banks creates panic and thousands of banks are shut down. -
FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt wins the election and rides the wave of new hope. Democrat Roosevelt breaks barriers when Republicans, Democrats, black and whites vote in his favor. His policies are widely perceived as ineffective, yet they brought about new traditions of the presidential office. -
Pearl Harbor
A date the will live in infamy. Axis power Japan performs a sneak attack on the naval base of Hawaii. Nearly 3000 men were killed on this act of pure devastation. After this, FDR asks Congress to declare war on the Axis powers and America enters the war. -
FDR death
FDR dies in his fourth presidential term. Polio in his body finally takes his life and he dies in warm springs, Georgia. -
Atomic Bomb
After the death of FDR, Harry Truman is tasked with ending the war. He decides to drop Little Boy and Fat Man on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devastation of the bombs forces Japan to surrender and the fighting in WW2 has ended. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson breaks the color barriers and becomes the first African American to play in the major league. The Brooklyn Dodgers took a risk and desegregated the league. -
Cold War
A cold war between the US and the Soviet Union emerges after WW2. Geopolitical tensions and wars within satellite states between communism and capitalism. -
Berlin Blockade
Stalin creates a blockade on the Russian area of West Berlin permitting foreign aid. Truman and the US drop tons of supplies above the Berlin wall each day to aid the starving Germans. -
Korean War
North Korean troops cross the DMZ at the 38th parallel and the Korean War begins. A war within the cold war, American troops drive communism out of South Korea and keep it contained. -
Mccarthyism
Joseph Mccarthy accuses over 200 Americans of being communist spies and destroys lives in the process. After the execution of the Rosenbergs. -
Brown v Board
Brown vs the board of education rules separates public schools unconstitutional. This overrules Plessy vs Ferguson, which allowed separate but equal. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launches the first satellite into space. Thus initiating the space race between America and Russia. -
Vietnam War
Another satellite war between communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam. This war was heavily protested on the homefront. Involving multiple countries such as Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. -
JFK shot
The assassination of the first Catholic president John F Kennedy shocked the world. His abrupt death was supposedly brought about by Lee Harvey Oswald a know communist supporter. -
Civil Right
Lyndon B Johnson passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and ensures the equality and desegregation of voting, school, and public offices.
