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English colony at Jamestown Virginia

Sep 28, 1607

settlement of colony of Virginia was the first permanent.

First Africans brought to North America

Sep 28, 1619

First Africans brought to North America
The first Africans were brought to North America were slaves.

Pilgrims land at Plymouth

Sep 28, 1620

Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock

Salem Witch Trials

Sep 28, 1692

Hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, 17 men and women were hanged because of this.

French and Indian War

Period: Sep 28, 1754 to Sep 28, 1763

French and Indian War
Britain and its colonists controlling of eastern North America, war between France and Britain.

Boston Massacre

Sep 28, 1770

Was a fight that happened in a street, people were protesting against the British soldiers, by throwing rocks and sticks.

Boston Tea Party

Sep 28, 1773

A protest that happened in Boston at 1773, by Sons of Liberty.

The Declaration of Independence

Sep 28, 1776

Announced the thirteen American colonies, happened at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Revolutionary War Ends (Treaty of Paris)

Sep 28, 1783

Ended the revolutionary war, United States and Great Britain, and it recognized American independence.

Shay's Rebellion

Period: Sep 28, 1786 to Sep 28, 1787

uprising against taxes in Massachusetts farmers over taxes.

Constitution Ratified

Sep 28, 1789

The states approved the new constitution after the debate, and a bill of rights was later on added to protect individual rights.

Whiskey Rebellion

Sep 28, 1791

people refused to pay tax on whiskey, opposition to a tax on whiskey

Lewis & Clark Expedition

Period: Sep 28, 1804 to Sep 28, 1806

journey through the Louisiana Territory by Lewis and clarck.

War of 1812

Sep 28, 1812

history
war between the Great Britain and United States, in the end both sides neither gained nor lost any territory.

Missouri Compromise

Sep 28, 1820

allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state with the provision that no more slave stated could come in above the 30 latitude line.

Trail of Tears

Sep 28, 1830

many native Americans were forced to migrate to Oklahoma, they were forced to give up their land east of Mississippi River.

Texan Independence

Sep 28, 1836

Texas declare independence from mexico

Mexican American War (Treaty of Guadalupa Hildelgo)

Period: Sep 28, 1846 to Sep 28, 1848

war between united stated and Mexico, ending with United state vitory

Gold Rush in California

Sep 28, 1849

Gold rush was found by James W. Marshall at Coloma, California at 1849, $2 billion worth of gold.

Compromise of 1850

Sep 28, 1850

U.S gained a new territory after war with mexico, california was allowed to come as free slave and the would upset the balance, in exchange south got the fugitive slave.

Kansas Nebraska Act

Sep 28, 1854

Overturned the slavery restrictions of the Missouri compromise by introducing the concept of popular sovereignty, (people can vote if the state should be a free or slave state).

Abraham Lincoln elected President

Sep 28, 1860

he promised the freedom of America state, he promised that he will keep the union together, he established the first national cemetery.

Civil War

Period: Sep 28, 1861 to Sep 28, 1865

War between south (confederated) and north (union).

Transcontinental Railroad completed

Sep 28, 1869

Transformed troops, 250000 (took them 7 days), and also supplies from state to state up in north side of U.S.

Reconstruction Ends

Sep 28, 1877

After the war ended the nation needed to rebuild socially and physically.

Spanish American War

Sep 28, 1898

Progressivism

Period: Sep 28, 1900 to Sep 28, 1920

Progressivism

Wright Brothers 1st flight

Sep 28, 1903

Model T Ford first produced

Sep 28, 1908

16th Amendment (Income Tax), 17th Amendment (Direct Election of U.S. Senators) Federal Reserve Bank established

Sep 28, 1913

Panama Canal opens

Sep 28, 1914

WW1

Period: Sep 28, 1917 to Sep 28, 1918

18th Amendment (Prohibition)

Sep 28, 1919

19th Amendment (Women's Suffrage), 1st known radio broadcast

Sep 28, 1920

Stock Maket Crash

Sep 28, 1929

Dreat Depression

Period: Sep 28, 1929 to Sep 28, 1939

Roosevelt elected president 100 Days Begins, New Deal, Prohibition repealled

Sep 28, 1933

WWII Begins in Europe

Sep 28, 1939

December 7 Pearl Harbor, U.S. Enters WWII

Sep 28, 1941

Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, WWII ends

Sep 28, 1945

Israel created

Sep 28, 1948

China goes Communist

Sep 28, 1949

1949

Korean War

Period: Sep 28, 1950 to Sep 28, 1953

Brown v Board of Education

Sep 28, 1954

Montgomery Buss Boycot (Beginning of the modern Civil Rights movement)

Sep 28, 1955

Russian's launch Sputnik (space race begins), Little Rock Nine

Sep 28, 1957

Russian's launch Sputnik (space race begins), Little Rock Nine

JFK assassinated, MLK delivers the "I have a dream" speech

Sep 28, 1963

Tonkin Gulf Resolution (Begins Vietnam War 1965-1975), Civil Rights Act

Sep 28, 1964

Voter's Rights Act

Sep 28, 1965

Tet Offensive, MLK & Robert Kennedy Assassinated.

Sep 28, 1968

Apolo 11 Mission (First man on the moon)

Sep 28, 1969

Watergate break in

Sep 28, 1972

Vietnam Conflict ends

Sep 28, 1973

Iran Hostage Crisis, Three mile Island incident

Period: Sep 28, 1979 to Sep 28, 1981

Ronald Reagan elected president

Sep 28, 1980

Iran Contra affair, space shuttle Challenger disaster

Sep 28, 1986

Fall of Communism

Sep 28, 1986