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also known as the Pequot massacre and the Battle of Mystic Fort -
you could scalp native Americain and sell it -
Americans dressed up as Native Americans and dumped great Britains tea into the harbor -
kicked off the American Revolutionary War -
kicked off the American Revolutionary War -
People signed a paper to get away from there ruler. -
General George Washington moved the Continental Army to their winter quarters at Valley Forge. -
12,000 soldiers and 400 women and children marched into Valley Forge and began to build what essentially became the fourth largest city in the colonies -
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Maryland delegates signed the ratification of the Articles of Confederation. -
the final battle of the American Revolution, fought between Colonial troops -
3/5 of a slave counted as part of the population -
New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify -
George Washington's inauguration ceremony in New York City was a grand historical event -
Announced his retirement and offered his political advice to the country. -
George Washinton died -
Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party. -
The Supreme decides the landmark case of William Marbury versus James Madison, Secretary of State of the United States and confirms the legal principle of judicial review -
Slavery ends. -
The U.S. victory broke Tecumseh's power and ended the threat of an Indian confederation. -
was a sea/land battle fought between British invaders and American -
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freeing more slaves -
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The Trail of Tears is over 5,043 miles long and covers nine states -
authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands -
set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people. -
The act required that slaves be returned to their owners -
the Supreme Court ruled that no black could claim U.S. citizenship or petition -
was a two-day civil disturbance in New York City evolving from what was originally a small-scale street fight between members of different gangs -
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South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union -
Union and Confederate armies fought near Manassas Junction, Virginia -
All slaves were set free -
No one survived this even and it is a shine in Texas -
One of the most important battles in the civil war, this battle had the highest death casualty -
abolition of slavery -
In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the “Ku Klux Klan.” -
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States -
upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine -
by the early 1880s controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines. Critics accused Rockefeller of engaging in unethical practices, -
State on account of race, color, -
The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War -
29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone -
the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of former Indian Territory,
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The sinking of th USS Maine Havana, Cuba harbor, killing 266 of the 354 crew members. This made Americans hate Spain even more, eading to a naval blockade of Cuba and a declaration of war. -
the slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota
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Seven hundred immigrants passed through Ellis Island that day, and nearly 450,000 followed over the course of that first year.
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Chinese community leaders, this hastily built immigration station was opened on the northeastern edge of Angel Island,
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was an Italian case for murder -
the first radio station -
Margaret Gorman was the first Miss American -
The first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps -
the mixture of religion, science and the public schools didn't mix well -
A great book full of mystery thrill and excitement -
The first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. -
The Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, -
murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Da -
the stock market crashed from buying stocks on credit. -
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President Herbert Hoover pressed a button in Washington, D.C., and on came the lights in the world's tallest skyscraper.