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Pilgrims and Plymouth
On March 21st, the pilgrims and plymouths signed a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. -
Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War was the armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies, which then was declaring them selves as the independent United States of America. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the paper that was singed on July 4th 1776 to declare freedom for the thirteen colonies from the British Empire. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purcahse was a land deal between the United States and France, where the U.S. got approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution started in England and spread to other parts of the world, it was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to 1820 and 1840. Many childeren at this time were working in the factories and dieing from the coal getting clogged up in their lungs. -
Civil War
The Civil War was fought from April 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865. The war was against the union and confedracy. It was also fought against slavery to wither keep or diminsh slavery. -
Sinking of the Titanic
The Titianic was the largest ship at the time is was built. It was to set sail from England to the United states, there were 2,435 people on the Titanic. There were only 705 survivors. -
World War I
World War 1 was the first World War that was held in mostly the center of Europe. World War 1 started because of the assination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary. Which declared war on Europe. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest depression in the United States history. The Great Depression started very quickly after the stock market crashed on October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust bowl was a sever drought in the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As crops died the black blizzard began. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land began to blow rapidly around the Midwestern and Southern plains. -
World War II
World War 2 started by Germany in an unprovoked attack on Poland. Through the war they eventually had to apposing teams, the Allies and the Axis. At the end of the war the Allies ended up winning with the Nuclear bomb on Japan from the United States. -
Attack of Pearl Harbor
The attack of Pearl Harbor was on the U.S during World War 2 and was attacking the U.S military and was attacked by Japan. Japan attacked because the U.S cut them off of supplying them with war material becasue they were a axis and the U.S was a allie. -
Cold War
The Cold War was the geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle between two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR, that started in 1947 at the end of the Second World War and lasted until the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the mass murder of the Jews from the Russians. At this time Adolph Hitler was the dictatator. The Nazis, who were the strongest power in Germany in 1933, saw Jews as racially inferior, and thought they needed to be dimimshed. -
9/11
9/11 was the attack on the twin towers in New York. The attackers were Irackian. The whole town could breath in the dust from that day. There is a memorial for 9/11 in New York still.
