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Massacre at Mystic
Connecticut colonists under Captain John Mason and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River. -
The Scalp Act
Anyone who brought in a male scalp above age of 12 would be given 150 pieces of eight -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
Kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
Kicked off the American Revolutionary War and fought between American colonist and the British. -
The Declaration of Independence is Signed
Members of Congress signed the Declaration of Independence. -
The Winter at Valley Forge
11,000 soldiers were stationed under General Washington at Valley Forge. -
Benedict Arnold turns traitor
he entered into secret negotiations with the British, agreeing to turn over the U.S. post at West Point in return for money and a command in the British army. -
The Battle of Cowpens
An American victory over a British force on the northern border of South Carolina that slowed Lord Cornwallis's campaign to invade North Carolina. -
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The Battle of Yorktown
Was the final battle of the American Revolution. Colonist troops entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virgina. -
The 3/5ths Compromise
Every enslaved American would be counted as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation purposes. -
The Boston Tea Party
Massachusetts colonists disguised as indians board British tea ship's and dumped 342 chest of tea in the Boston harbor. -
Article of Confederation are Ratified
Congress approved a plan to hold a convention in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation. -
The Constitution is Ratified
The Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America. -
Presidential Inauguration of George Washington
George Washington took the oath as the first president of the United States. -
Washington’s Farewell Address
Washington's Farewell Address is a letter written by American President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and the fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States. -
The Death of George Washington
George Washington passed away at this home after losing 40 percent of his blood from blood letting due to a throat infection. -
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Election Day of 1800
Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated Federalist John Adams. It was the first peaceful transition of power from one party to another. -
Slave Trade Ends in the United States
The transatlantic slave trade was abolished in the United States from 1 January 1808. The campaign to end slavery itself in the United States was long and bitter. -
Marbury vs. Madison
It was a Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws and statutes that they find to violate the Constitution of the United States. -
Battle of Tippecanoe
Fought primarily over white expansion into Indian territory, the battle lasted approximately one day with the United States securing victory. The conflict at Tippecanoe was the primary catalyst for the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States. -
The USS Constitution defeats the HMS Guerriere
On August 19, 1812 the USS Constitution defeated the HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia. The battle lasted for an hour and marked a great victory for the Navy. -
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The Battle of Baltimore
A sea/land battle fought between British invaders and American defenders in the War of 1812. -
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The Battle of New Orleans
American troops, led by future President Andrew Jackson, defeated the much larger British force, which bolstered U.S. hopes for a speedy end to the war. -
The Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state -
The Election of Andrew Jackson
It was held from Friday, October 31 to Tuesday, December 2, 1828. It featured a rematch of the 1824 election, as President John Quincy Adams of the National Republican Party faced Andrew Jackson of the Democratic Party. Jackson's victory over Adams marked the start of Democratic dominance in federal politics. -
Indian Removal Act
Signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. This authorized the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Trail of Tears
16,000 Native Americans from the Cherokee tribe were marched over 1,200 miles of rugged land. This lasted from 1831 to 1850. -
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Nat Turner Rebellion
A rebellion of enslaved people led by Nat Turner. They massacred up to 200 Black people and caused a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people. -
The Battle of the Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo was fought between the Republic of Texas and Mexico from February 23, 1836 to March 6, 1836. It took place at a fort in San Antonio, Texas. The Mexicans won the battle, killing all of the Texan soldiers inside the fort. -
Mexico loses California, New Mexico, and Arizona
This treaty, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, to the United States. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. -
Dred Scott Decision
The United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. -
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The Dead Rabbits Riot
The Dead Rabbits Riot was a two day civil disturbance in New York City. It was a small-scale street fight between members of the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys into a citywide gang war -
Abraham Lincoln Elected President
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States of America the first president ever to be elected with less than 50% of the vote. -
South Carolina secedes from the United States
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union. The secession of South Carolina precipitated the outbreak of the American Civil War in Charleston Harbor. -
The First Battle of Bull Run
The first major land battle of the American Civil War. 35,000 Union troops marched from the federal capital in Washington, D.C. to strike a Confederate force of 20,000 along a small river known as Bull Run -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
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The Battle of Gettysburg
Marked the turning point of the Civil War. It stopped the Confederate momentum in the Eastern Theater It gave the Federals a badly needed victory and boosted Northern morale. -
13th Amendment
The 13th Amendment forever abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories. In addition to banning slavery, the amendment outlawed the practice of involuntary servitude and peonage. -
The Treaty at Appomattox Courthouse
Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. -
The Ku Klux Klan is Established
A group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society. It was a American white supremacist terrorist hate group. -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.” -
15th Amendment
States that the citizens of the United States have the right to vote and shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
John D. Rockefeller Creates Standard Oil
He established Standard Oil, by the early 1880s controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines. Critics accused Rockefeller of engaging in unethical practices, such as predatory pricing and colluding with railroads to eliminate his competitors in order to gain a monopoly in the industry. -
Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone
receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. -
The Great Oklahoma Land Race
The first land run into the Unassigned Lands of former Indian Territory, which had earlier been assigned to the Creek and Seminole peoples. An estimated 50,000 people were lined up at the start, seeking to gain a piece of the available two million acres. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota. -
Ellis Island Opens to Process Immigrants
he first Ellis Island Immigration Station officially opened on January 1, 1892, as three large ships wait to land. Seven hundred immigrants passed through Ellis Island that day, and nearly 450,000 followed over the course of that first year. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. -
The sinking of the USS Maine
An explosion of unknown origin sank the battleship U.S.S. Maine in the Havana, Cuba harbor, killing 266 of the 354 crew members. -
The Wizard of Oz (Book) is Published
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. -
J.P. Morgan Founds U.S. Steel
J. P. Morgan formed U.S. Steel on March 2, 1901 by financing the merger of Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company with Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company and William Henry "Judge" Moore's National Steel Company for $492 million -
Teddy Roosevelt Becomes President of the United States
Roosevelt took office as vice president in 1901 and assumed the presidency at age 42 after McKinley was assassinated the following September. -
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Ida Tarbell Publishes Her Article About Standard Oil
The book was published as a series of articles in McClure's Magazine from 1902 to 1904. It has been called a "masterpiece of investigative journalism", by historian J. -
Ford Motor Company is Founded
Founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand, and luxury cars under its Lincoln luxury brand. -
Angel Island Opens to Process Immigrants
The immigration station was opened on the northeastern edge of Angel Island to process immigrants from Europe -
The 16th Amendment is Passed
Passed by Congress on July 2, 1909, and ratified February 3, 1913, the 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax. -
The 17th Amendment is Passed
the 17th amendment modified Article I, section 3, of the Constitution by allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators. -
Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder
When arrested, Sacco and Vanzetti lied to the police. They denied associating with anarchist Buda and denied visiting the garage and denied involvement in the robbery and murders. they were executed for murder despite worldwide demonstrations in support of their innocence. -
KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh
first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, which went on the air in the evening of Nov. 2, 1920, with a broadcast of the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election. -
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Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding. Convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Fall became the first presidential cabinet member to go to prison -
1st Miss American Pageant
Margaret Gorman, winner of the 1921 “Inter-City Beauty” contest and the first Miss America. -
1st Winter Olympics Held
the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. -
J.Edgar Hoover Becomes Head of the FBI
President Calvin Coolidge appointed Hoover as the fifth Director of the Bureau of Investigation, partly in response to allegations that the prior director, William J. Burns, was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal. -
The Great Gatsby published by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald that is set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City -
Mein Kampf is Published
Mein Kampf(My Struggle) is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in 1926. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school which had recently been made illegal. -
Charles Lindberg completes solo flight across the Atlantic
Charles A. Lindbergh completed 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 debuts
The first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater at 1421 5th Avenue in Seattle. It the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the 1929 murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day. -
Grapes of Wrath is Published
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the fall began. This caused people to lose all of the money in stocks and run to banks and get their hard money which caused bank runs and caused banks to close. By 1933, unemployment was at 25 percent and more than 5,000 banks had gone out of business. -
Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)
Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the fall began. On Tuesday the stock prices collapsed completely and 16,410,030 shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
The drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. -
The Adoption of the Star Spangled Banner as the National Anthem
Recognized for official use by the United States Navy in 1889, and by U.S. president Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 -
The Empire State Building Opens
On May 1, 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City's Empire State Building, pressing a button from the White House that turns on the building's lights. -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover. -
Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. -
CCC is Created
Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, with an executive order on April 5, 1933. The CCC was part of his New Deal legislation, combating high unemployment during the Great Depression by putting hundreds of thousands of young men to work on environmental conservation projects. -
WPA is Created
President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the WPA with an executive order on May 6, 1935. It was part of his New Deal plan to lift the country out of the Great Depression by reforming the financial system and restoring the economy to pre-Depression levels. -
J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
Braddock won the Heavyweight Championship of the World as the 10-to-1 underdog in what was called "the greatest fistic upset since the defeat of John L. Sullivan by Jim Corbett". -
Olympic Games in Berlin
The Berlin Games were the 10th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. It were held in a tense, politically charged atmosphere. -
Kristallnacht
On the night of November 9, 1938 violent anti-Jewish demonstrations broke out across Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
The Wizard of Oz premieres and becomes one of the best-loved movies in history, opens in theaters around the United States. -
Germany Invades Poland
German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. -
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The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain, also known as the Air Battle for England, was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. -
The Four Freedoms Speech
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first inaugural address in 1933, it sought improved diplomatic relations between the United States and its Latin American neighbors. -
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu -
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on June 4th 1942 and ended on June 7th 1942. The Battle of Midway became one of the most important American naval victories of World War II. It was the turning point of the war because the U.S. Navy was able to destroy 4 Japanese aircraft carriers and hundreds of airplanes and made the United States ready to go on the offensive on Japan. -
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The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. The Battle of Stalingrad ultimately turned the tide of World War II in favor of the Allied force -
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Operation Torch
Operation Torch was the Anglo-American invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II. The invasion forces had to overcome French opposition in territories controlled by the Vichy Regime under Marshall Philippe Pétain. -
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program
The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies was established in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II -
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The Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk was an unsuccessful German assault on the Soviet salient around the city of Kursk, in western Russia, during World War II. The battle was a turning point on the Eastern Front. When Hitler received news that the Allies had invaded Sicily he decided to cancel Operation Citadel and divert forces to Italy. The Germans refrained from trying to mount another counter-attack on the Eastern Front and never again emerged victorious against Soviet forces. -
D-Day (June 6th, 1944)
the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day. More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
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Battle of the Philippines
Naval battle of World War II between the Japanese Combined Fleet and the U.S. Fifth Fleet. Known as “the greatest carrier battle of the war,” it accompanied the U.S. landing on Saipan and ended in a complete U.S. victory. -
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The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German military offensive in western Europe. The German offensive in the Ardennes region of Belgium was only temporarily successful in halting the Allied advance. -
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The Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army -
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The Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Okinawa, also known as Operation Iceberg, it was the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific theater of World War II. It also resulted in the largest casualties with over 100,000 Japanese casualties and 50,000 casualties for the Allies. The Allies won the battle and occupied Okinawa is considered to be the last major battle of World War II. -
The Death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head while held up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
The bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki with the Fat Man plutonium bomb took place on August 9, 1945 -
The Death of FDR
Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April 12th 1975 due cerebral hemorrhaging.