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Adventures Travel on a boat to America
Many people during the 1600's wanted to find more land and explore the world so adventures got on a boat and set sail. After being in the ocean they found a huge peice of land which is known as America. -
John came to America
The name Hancock is an English name. The first of my Hancock ancestors to come to America was William Hancock. He arrived in America in 1619. He had at least three children, Augustin, Simon, and William. -
Mayflower arrives
he Mayflower was the ship that transported the English Dissenters, better known today as the Pilgrims, from a site near the Mayflower Steps in Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts which would become the capital of Plymouth Colony, in 1620. There were 102 passengers and a crew of 25–30. -
pilgrams have been here for 5 months
The pilgrams were here settling down, building house and growing gardens. They end up having troubles with the indians. -
pilgrams surprise attack
The pilgrams plan a surprise attack for the indians. The want to take the out at night time. That away they cant see them when they go to attack. -
turning point for the pilgrams and the indians
The indians and the pilgrams get along and join each other for a dinner. They decide to get along and make friends with each other. -
Postal servise
When the postal service was introduced it allowed people to send letters quicker to loved ones. -
Portiable camera
With this first portiable camera it allowed people to take pictures of events like the Civil War. -
rebelin act on tax on wine and whiskey
Despite the President's plea and Congressional modification of the excise law, violent opposition to the whiskey tax continued to grow over the next two years. This was especially true in the four counties of southwestern Pennsylvania —Allegheny, Fayette, Washington, and Westmoreland—the location of up to one-fourth of the Nation's stills. -
Raid on Hancock's Ship
People are angry about taxes and starts a raid on the ship. -
Boston Tea party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
Daneil Boone and his helpers look for new land
Daneil boone goes on the search for some new land. He takes some guys along to find the land and help out with anything. They ran into the indians every once and awhile. -
Bitish leave Lexington for Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
60 militia solidiers vs. hundred of british soliders
The 60 Militia soldiers had newer guns brought to war that shot farther and is more accurate than most guns. The british had more people but didnt have the fire power or the intelegence on how to fight. -
45 ships come into land
Battle of Brooklyn Heights, fought on August 27, 1776, was the first major battle in the American Revolutionary War following the United States Declaration of Independence. -
Piladelphia meeting
In this important meeting which included John Adams and Thomas Jefferson they discussed America's Independence. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Danial Morgan lead troops
danial Morgan lead troops to fight a good fight. He came up with battle attacks. The brought a rifle to the war that shot better and could shot a longer distance. -
New York was under fire
The red coats did a sneak attack and the blue coats. -
New york was captured by the british
New York Captured by the British. - General Howe selected September 13, 1776, for the landing of his army on New York Island from Long Island. It was the anniversary of the capture of Quebec, in 1759, in which he had participated. In the afternoon four armed ships, keeping up an incessant fire on the American batteries, passed them into the East River, and anchored, but no landing was attempted that day. On the next day, about sunset, si -
American War is in the 2nd Year
The American/England war is still going on after 2 years. Many men have died during this war. -
Indepence in its 2nd year
This was the date and the year that the Declaration of Indepence was in its 2nd year. -
Washingtons army survives very cold winter and small pox
Washingtons troos went through a suffering hard winter. They didnt have enough cloths and food. The small pox hit them hard since they weren't properly sheltered. -
Washington revales new war stratigies
George Washington introduces new war stratigies to help win the war. His new stratigies was to be sneaky but to use caution. -
revolution comes ahead, 8000 troops with new attitudes
Goerge washington straightend up the troops. He gave them lessons on how to fight in long range combat and in short range combat. He also tought them how to shot. -
power loom was invented
A power loom is a mechanised loom powered by a line shaft. The first power loom was designed in 1784 by Edmund Cartwright and first built in 1785. It was refined over the next 47 years until a design by Kenworthy and Bullough, made the operation completely automatic. -
steamboats were invented by john fitch
The first successful trial run of his steamboat was made on the Delaware River on August 22, 1787, in the presence of delegates from the Constitutional Convention. It was propelled by a bank of oars on either side of the boat. During the next few years, Fitch and Voigt worked to develop better designs. -
Goarge Washington- first president with the new Declaration Independence
George Washington was the first President of the United States of America, serving from 1789 to 1797, and dominant military and political leader of the United States from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. -
Cotton Gin inventor was Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States. -
Thomas Jefferson bought louisianna land
The Louisiana Purchase was bought by the United States of America all 828,000 square miles of France's territory of Louisiana in 1803. The U.S. sum total of 15 million dollars, less than 3 cents per acre for the Louisiana territory.The purchase was an achievement in the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. -
Maping Expodition
The expedition followed the Missouri through what is now Kansas City, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska. On August 20, 1804, Sergeant Charles Floyd died, apparently from acute appendicitis. He was buried at Floyd's Bluff, in what is now Sioux City, Iowa. During the final week of August, Lewis and Clark reached the edge of the Great Plains, a place abounding with elk, deer, bison, and beavers. -
Sacagawea save the people on the maping expedition
Sacagawea was an indigenous woman who accompanied her husband Toussaint Charbonneau on the expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Sacagawea was not the guide for the Expedition, she was important to them as an interpreter and in other ways. -
Milk sickness
You were able to get the milk sickness by drinking milk from a cow that had eaten the white snakeroot plant. -
3 men hunting for beaver
In 1823, as a leader of Ashley's men, Jedediah took a beaver trapping party and explored the Rocky Mountains south of the Yellowstone River. The party spent the rest of 1823 Wintering in the Wind River Valley. -
industrial revolution
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery in the United States. -
1/3 of Norway came to america
Norwegian came to America because they wanted to join are country and the how we are doing. They came here for better jobs and for better living. -
Erie Cannal, 363 miles long was finished
The Erie Canal is a waterway in New York that runs about 363 miles from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. -
A new policy, native Americians relocation act
Indian removal was a policy of the government of the United States to relocate Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 26, 1830. -
railroads transporting troops and supplies
Rail was strategic during the American Civil War, and the Union used its much larger system much more effectively. Practically all the mills and factories supplying rails and equipment were in the North, and the Union blockade kept the South from getting new equipment or spare parts. -
Texas Alamo
In 1836 the Battle of the Alamo began. This battle would only last for 13 days. This battle was between America and Mexico. -
women strike at loom
In January 1836, the Board of Directors of Lowell's textile mills absorbed an increase in the textile workers' rent to help in the crisis faced by the company boarding house keepers. As the economic calamity continued in October 1836, the Directors proposed an additional rent hike to be paid by the textile workers living in the company boarding houses. The female textile workers responded immediately in protest by forming the Factory Girls' Association and organizing a or strike. -
Cotton
With cotton it made clothing possible. It would later inspire an machine for businesses. -
Morris Code helps win North
www.ask.com Morse code is a method of transmitting textual information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment. -
wagon train heads west, the leader is Goerge Doner
During the 1840s, the United States saw a dramatic increase in pioneers: people who left their homes in the east to settle in Oregon and California. Some saw California as a place where they would be free to live in a fully Catholic culture. In the spring of 1846, almost 500 wagons headed west from Independence. At the rear of the train, a group of nine wagons containing 32 members of the Reed and Donner families and their employees left on May 12 -
they eat there very first person during the blizzard
They ran out of food and water so they eat one of the people that has died. They cooked them over a fire. -
fugitive slave law
he Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act 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. This was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a slave power conspiracy. -
Uncle Toms cabin or Life Among the Lowly
Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War. -
Elevators
The first elevator was introduced in 1852. It could allow people to travel to the different levels in a building. -
Oil used for lighting
The oil that was used for lighting was from whales. Kerosene eventually replaces whale oil as the illuminant of choice and creates a new market for crude oil. -
first time oil was drilled
The most important oil well ever drilled was in the middle of quiet farm country in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859. For this was one of the first successful oil wells that was drilled for the sole purpose of finding oil. -
John brown raids on Harper Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in many books the town is called "Harper's Ferry". There was an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859. Brown's raid was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee. -
Abe Lincoln elected president
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates. -
Civil War at height
The height of the Civil War was the most intense and the turning point. -
Year into war with General E Lee
Robert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. Lee wanted all peaceful ways of resolving the differences between North and South. Such as the Crittenden Compromise. He tried this first, and was one of the few to foresee a long and difficult war. -
lincoln offered south to rejoin the union
It started near the end of the Civil War when President Abraham Lincoln proposed a plan to rebuild the South and bring states back into the Union. His plan offered pardons to every single southern white, not including the main slavery and agree to be loyal to the country if they wanted to rejoin the Union. -
Licoln emancepation proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion. This is applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at that time. The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves. -
Gettysburg Address
In November 1863, President Abraham Lincoln was invited to deliver remarks, which later became known as the Gettysburg Address. It took place at the official dedication ceremony for the National Cemetery of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, on the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War. -
troops starve
The South never grasps the modern war they’re fighting. In the winter of 1863 Southern troops starve even though they are just 50 kms from their capital, Richmond. Lacking logistics, the South cannot deliver the final blow. -
Men women and children travel to orgean
The families traveled to Orgean to look for a better life. Somewhere where they can start fresh with everything. They had to travel many and many of miles. -
Lincoln dies from bullet
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, dies from a bullet wound inflicted the night before by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer. The president's death came only six days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox, effectively ending the American Civil War. -
Barbed Wire
Barbed wire was an invention that transformed farming in the West, it was less expensive than wood fencing and most importantly keep livestock from running rampant. Michael Kelly was the first to paten the the first wire fencing in 1868, his invention only consisted of one strand of wire and no barbs. Joseph Glidden later developed a better way to intertwine the barbs and was issued a paten for his barb wire in 1874. -
rail road is done
The idea for a transcontinental railroad "to shrink the continent and change the whole world" was first proposed by men of imagination in 1830. It wasn't until 1862 that Congress passed a bill authorizing such a venture. In 1869, after a long, bitter and often terrifying struggle against Indian attacks, brutal weather, floods, labor shortages, political chicanery, lawlessness and a war, the first transcontinental railroad finally became a reality. -
Harriet Tubman made 13 trip on the underground railroad saving over 70 slaves
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states. One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped the Railroad. -
locust plague
The Rocky Mountain locust was the locust species that ranged through almost the entire western half of the United States until the end of the 19th century. Sightings often placed their swarms in numbers far larger than any other species of locust, with one famed sighting having been estimated at 198,000 square miles. -
the gun of the west, the Colt 45
When Colt's Patented Firearms Manufacturing Company came out with the .45 Colt in the Single Action Army or "Peacemaker" model in 1873. In the following years the gun (and the men who used it, whether for good or bad), would be remembered in story and legend. Secondly, what made the .45 Colt such a great round during the black powder era was, capacity, caliber and bullet weight. These are still its strongest points today thanks to the potental. -
Statue of Liberty
The construction of the Statue of Liberty begins in 1876. It would take them several years to complete it. The American people began sending in donations for the Statue of Liberty. The donations allowed the American people to keep and build the statue. -
Red Cross
Civil War nurse Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. Barton was a teacher and a U.S. Patent Office clerk before devoting herself to nursing in the American Civil War (1861-65). She earned the nickname "the angel of the battlefield" and in 1864 was named superintendent of all Union nurses. -
standard time was born
The standard time is the time that everyone is on now. The U.S. had eveyone go to the same time so everyone was on the same time and not off track. -
Statue of Liberty
The American people began sending in donations for the Statue of Liberty. The donations allowed the American people to keep and build the statue. -
NYC has a problem
NYC needs money for the Statue of Liberty and if they don't get the money they will loose the statue. -
85 buffalo left
There was a period in time where all the buffalo were hunted and there were only 85 left. There was over 30,000 buffalo killed. They were hunted for there meat and there fur. They sold the fur and skins. -
Indian reservation
In the years prior to the Massacre, the U.S. Government had continued to coerce the Lakota into signing away more of their lands. Congress failed to keep its treaty promises to feed, house, clothe and protect reservation lands from encroachment by settlers and gold miners; as well as failing to properly oversee the Indian Agents. -
2 billion feet of board was cut
Two “billion” board feet of lumber was cut in Wisconsin. Never had so much been cut in one year - and never again would be done again. -
horse brought over from europe
Europe brought over the horse and how they could ride them. The Europeans tought the Americans how to ride horses and how to mantian them. -
Gas
With cars becoming very popular and with buckets of oil that has been found, it allowed gas stations to be built across America. In 1901 the price of gas was about 25 cents. -
Skyscrapers
America was changing for the better and with the invention of steel people are now able to create tall buildings. -
Air Condition
In 1902 America was releaved that they could now get Air in the houses. The first air condiction units were huge and took up a lot of space. They also used gasses like ammonia for it to work. -
Henry Ford
He was known worldwide especially from about 1914 as a promoter of pacifism and as a publisher of antisemitic texts such as the book The International Jew. Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. -
Out of water
In 1904 LA was about to run out of water, however a man named William Mulholland was exploring the area and found a great body of water and would later give LA water. -
Sewers
Before sewers everything would gather in the streets which left horrible smells in the city. Now with sewers our waste would sent to a special place leaving our towns and cities clean. -
Model T
The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company from September 1908 to October 1927. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American. Some of this was because of Ford's innovations, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting. The Ford Model T was named the world's most influential car of the -
Great migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West from 1910 to 1970. -
Los Angeles Aqueduct
The project began in 1908 with a budget of US$24.5 million.[5][6][7] With 5,000 workers employed for its construction, the Los Angeles Aqueduct was completed in 1913. -
Assembly line
Assembly lines are designed for a sequential organization of workers, tools or machines, and parts. The motion of workers is minimized to the extent possible. All parts or assemblies are handled either by conveyors or motorized vehicles such as fork lifts, or gravity, with no manual trucking. Heavy lifting is done by machines such as overhead cranes or fork lifts. Each worker typically performs one simple operation. -
New drivers
During this time Henry Ford was creating a new car which was safe and afforidable. Before cars the people had no clue how to drive a car but with the model T it came with a driving manual. Not only did the parents in the family learn to drive, even the kids were tought. As long as the kid could reach the pedals and see over the dash they got tought. -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established prohibition in the United States. The separate Volstead Act set down methods of enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, and defined which "intoxicating liquors" were prohibited, and which were excluded from prohibition for medical and religious purposes. -
Chicago race riot
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was a major racial conflict that began in Chicago, Illinois on July 27, 1919 and ended on August 3. During the riot, dozens died and hundreds were injured. It is considered the worst of the approximately 25 riots during the Red Summer of 1919, so named because of the violence and fatalities across the nation. The combination of prolonged arson, looting and murder was the worst race rioting in the history of Illinois. -
Bootlegging
Bootlegging, in U.S. history, illegal traffic in liquor in violation of legislative restrictions on its manufacture, sale, or transportation. The word apparently came into general use in the Midwest in the 1880s to denote the practice of concealing flasks of illicit liquor in boot tops when going to trade with Indians. -
Consumer Book begins
In the 1920's many Americans began to buy items such as cars, food and houses. Since America was buying so much the economy rose. -
Hollywoodland sign
It's hard to figure a giant flashing electric sign as a classy touch, but in the twenties, the developers attracted the sophisticated and artistic crowd they intended. "Hollywoodland, one of the show places of the world" is how they saw their 500 acre subdivision. To their credit, they sensitively laid out Hollywoodland. A charming small town feeling has presided for close to seventy years. -
Mount Rushmore
In 1927 Mount Rushmore began construction. It would linclude faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Mount Rushmore was completed in 1941. -
TV
In 1927 the first television set were introduced. These sets had poor image quailty which made it hard to see what you were watching. -
Stock market
In 1929 the stock market crashes. It lost about 12 persent of the value. By 1932 the stock market bottomed out. -
Hoover Dam
In 1931 the Boulder Dam was apprived and began construction. It took thousands of workers day and night to finish this project in 1935. 12 years after it was finished the name was changed to Hoover Dam. -
Hunting Whales
Around 1931 people began hunting for whale oil. The whale oil would be used for different things such as lights. Whales were becoming exticted from being hunted so much. -
Dust Storms
In 1934 dust storms sweeped across America left many sick. These dust storms were caused by the flat plans getting all tilled up and not having any rains to settle the dust, so when the dust blow it made really big dust storms. -
Radio Stations
In 1935 radio stations started to go national. Anyone in America could hear the same station. -
Farming goes bad
In 1936 there was hardly any rain and farmers couldn't farm their crops. It left many famers broke. Which left the farmers nothing to live on and no money to spend on food. Must familys sold some of there land or sold there whole farm. -
Las Vegas
Due to the building on the hoover dam that brought people and there families to Las Vegas. Most of the guys theat worked on the dam went to the city to gamble and drink. In 1940 Las Vegas begins to boom. Many hotels began to be built on the strip and casinos popped up everywhere. -
Radars
In 1941 America introduced a new machine- radar. It allowed military forces to see the air space thats near them. They could see airplanes and birds. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The American people were shocked and didn't expect the attack. Later that day America would declare war on Japan. -
Japenese Planes
On Dec 7 1941 Japaneese Planes were on route to bomb Pearl Harbor. They had practiced the attacking method several times until they got a certain percent. -
Declared War
America declares war with Japan. The main reason they declared war was because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. -
Attacked Germany
In 1942 America attacks Germany after they attacked Pearl Harbor. This war would be known as World War 2. This war cost more money than any other war. -
B17 bomber
America introduced the B 17 Bomber. In 1942 the B 17 bomber was in route to Japan to unlease bombs. The max speed of these planes was 287 miles per hour. -
Draft
President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act. Those acts created a draft for solders. In order to draft people they came up with a lottery drawing and that would determine who enters war. -
Cold War
The Cold war began in 1945 and it was between the United States and the Soviet Union. Slavery was one of the biggest things that started the war. -
Atomic Bombs
On August 1945 American planes dropped the Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima. America created a code name which was little boy. This bomb helped end World War Two. -
Interstates
President Dwight Eisenhower created the Federal Aid Highway act in 1954. This new act allowed America to create more highways and expand so that people can travel with their cars. -
Cars
With neighborhoods expanding it made many Americans buy a car to travel. Sometime in the 1950's the roads of America had almost 40 million cars on the road. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War began in 1959 and it was between America and Vietnam. Many Americans thought that they would lose the war and lost their support. Starting in 1969 Nixion started peace acts and would later end the war. -
Airplanes
America was entering a new age- "The Flying Age". This allowed a new company "Boeing" to create new and large airplanes to travel people on. -
Kennedy Assassination
On Nov 1 1963 Kennedy was Assassined in this car during the climax of the Cilvil War. He was shot at the Dealy Plaza in Dallas. Kennedy later died that day. -
The War Jeep
These new jeeps allowed people to travel from point a to point b. The jeeps also transported weapons. -
1st people on the moon
President John. F Kennedy wanted to put people onto the moon and he did. The first people on the moon was Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. When the arrived on the moon they placed the American flag to show that they were there. -
Kent State College
On May 4th 1970 Ohio National Guard fired into a large crowed at Kent State. That shot killed four people and wounded nine. The guard was called into the college because of a large group that was rallying for anti-war. -
Water Gate
The watergate scandal was the biggest scandal in U.S. history. On June 17th 1972 five men got caught breaking into the building and was arrested. People claimed Nixion was apart of this scandal so congress began working on his impeachment but Nixion decided to resign. -
Stock market
In 1973 the stock market crashed. Prices for everyday items rose and limited supply of items. -
The end of the Vietnam war ends
The Vietnam War was between American and Vietnam. It finally ended in 1975 only because Nixon created peace treaties. -
911
On September 11th 2001 several terrists took over American plans and flew them into the Twin Towers, Pentagon, and in Shanksville, PA. Many people died in these attacks.
