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Boston Tea Party
It was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped nearly 400 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Benedict Arnold turns traitor
one of the most infamous traitors in U.S. history after he switched sides and fought for the British -
Lexington @ Concord
The battle kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
Signing of the Declaration of independence
It was the first formal statement by a nation's people asserting their right to choose their own government. -
The Winter at Valley Forge
General George Washington moved the Continental Army to their winter quarters at Valley Forge. By the time the army marched into Valley Forge on December 19, they were suffering not only from cold, hunger, and fatigue, but from low morale in the wake of the disastrous Philadelphia Campaign. -
The Winter at Valley Forge
Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War. In September 1777 -
Washingtons Death
Washington died due to a throat infection obtained the night before on a horse back ride and it started snowing, cause his original sore throat -
The Battle of Cowpens
The Battle of Cowpens was an engagement during the American Revolutionary War fought on January 17, 1781 near the town of Cowpens, South Carolina, between U.S. forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Sir Banastre Tarleton, as part of the campaign in the Carolinas. -
The Article of Confederation are Ratified
The Articles were signed by Congress and sent to the individual states for ratification on November 15, 1777, after 16 months of debate. -
The Battle of Yorktown
The last battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Constitution is Ratified
It became the official framework of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it. -
The Inauguration of George Washington
The first inauguration of George Washington as the first President of the United States was held on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City, New York. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of George Washington as President. -
Washingtons Farewell Address
He advised American citizens to view themselves as a cohesive unit and avoid political parties and issued a special warning to be wary of attachments and entanglements with other nations -
The Election of 1800
The first election in history where power changes hands peacefully -
Marbury VS. Madison
The Supreme Court announced for the first time the principle that a court may declare an act of Congress void if it is inconsistent with the Constitution. -
The USS Constitution defeats the HMS Guerriere
USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere was an action between the two ships during the War of 1812, approximately 400 miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It took place shortly after war had broken out. -
The Battle of Baltimore
The Battle of Baltimore was a sea/land battle fought between British invaders and American defenders in the War of 1812. American forces repulsed sea and land invasions off the busy port city of Baltimore, Maryland, and killed the commander of the invading British forces. -
The Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8, 1815 between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson. -
The Election of Andrew Jackson
It featured a re-match of the 1824 election, as President John Quincy Adams of the National Republican Party faced Andrew Jackson of the Democratic Party -
The Battle of the Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar, killing the Texian and immigrant occupiers. -
Mexico loses California, New Mexico, and Arizona
The signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. -
Dead Rabbits Riot
The dead rabbits gang and the bowery boys gang fight turns into a two day riot in New York City -
Abraham Lincoln Elected President
The 1860 United States presidential election was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. -
South Carolina secedes from the United States
South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. -
The First Battle of Bull Run
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas, was the first major battle of the American Civil War and was a Confederate victory. -
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. -
The Treaty at Appomattox Courthouse
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War. -
KKK is established
The KKK is established in Pulaski, Tennessee -
Invention of Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller invents standard oil which would soon control 90% of US refineries and pipelines. -
Telephone is Patented
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone. -
The Great Oklahoma Land Race
The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land rush into the Unassigned Lands. -
Ellis Island opens
Ellis Island began taking immigrants into the US -
The sinking of the USS Maine
It sent to Havana Harbor to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban War of Independence. She exploded and sank on the evening of 15 February 1898, killing three-quarters of her crew. In 1898, a U.S. Navy board of inquiry ruled that the ship had been sunk by an external explosion from a mine. -
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz is published by George M. Hill company -
Founding of US Steel
JP Morgan founds the US steel company -
Teddy Rosevelt is elected
Teddy Rosevelt is elected as the 26th US president -
Ford is founded
Henry Ford founds the Ford Motor company in Detroit, Michigan -
Article About Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell Publishes Her Article About Standard Oil -
16th Amendment is passed
The 16th amendment is passed by the US government -
Angel Island opes for imimmigrants
Angel Island begins taking immigrants into America -
17th Amendment is passed
The 17th amendment of the constitution is passed by the government. -
Sacco and Vanzetti arrested for armed robbery and murder
Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with the crime of murder on May 5, 1920, and indicted four months later on September 14. -
KDKA goes on the air from Pittsburgh
the 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. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. -
1st Miss American Pageant
it was held September 7-8, 1921, and eight finalists from cities in the Northeast competed for the title, which would later be known as Miss America -
1st Winter Olympics Held
The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. -
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 written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. -
Mein Kampf is Published
Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
it was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. -
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. -
Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash)
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the fall of 1929. -
The Jazz Singer debuts (1st movie with sound)
The Jazz Singer, American musical film, released in 1927, that was 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 -
Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
known as "Black Thursday," when the market opened 11% lower than the previous day's close. ... 3, 1929, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average at 381.17. The ultimate bottom was reached on July 8, 1932, where the Dow stood at 41.22. -
The Dust Bowl Begins
It started in 1930 and lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region lingered much longer. Severe drought hit the Midwest and Southern Great Plains in 1930. Massive dust storms began in 1931. -
The Adoption of the Star Spangled Banner as the National Anthem
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed an executive order designating it the national anthem of the United States. In 1931 more than 100 years after it was composed Congress passed a measure declaring “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the official national anthem. -
Empire state building opens
The Empire state building in New York officially opens -
Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President (1st Time)
In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide. -
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. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945 -
CCC is Created
Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps, it 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
FDR issued executive order 7034, establishing the Works Progress Administration. The WPA superseded the work of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, which was dissolved. -
J.J. Braddock Wins Heavyweight Boxing Title
at Madison Square Garden Bowl, 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". -
Wizard of Oz Premiers in Movie Theaters
The Wizard of Oz, which would become one of the best-loved movies in history, opens in theaters around the United States. -
Olympic Games in Berlin
The Summer Olympic Games open in Berlin, attended by athletes and spectators from countries around the world. The Olympic Games were a propaganda success for the Nazi government. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November Pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. -
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. -
Germany Invades Poland
The invasion of Poland marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had approved the pact. -
The Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and 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
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
The bombing of peral harbor
The bombing was a surprise military strike from the imperial Japanese on the US at our Hawaii base 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 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. The French colonies in the area were dominated by the French, formally aligned with Germany but of mixed loyalties. -
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. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
The Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union. -
Battle of the Philippines
The Battle of the Phillippines was the American and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II. -
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. -
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. -
The battle of Iwo Jima
It was a major battle that the USMC and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Ima Jima. -
The Death of FDR
With a long strain of bad health and serious medical problems, he died three months into his fourth term as president. -
The Death of Adolf Hitler
He committed suicide by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. his wife killed herself that day as well. -
The Battle of Okinawa
It was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. -
Atomic Bombing Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
Newport Jazz Festival
The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, -
Nixon-Kennedy Debates
This is the first televised presidential election, both men mean "won" one of the debates against each other. -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
JFK was the 35th president of the US. He was assinated by Lee Harvey Olswold while riding thru a parade. -
The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show
The beatles made there first live apperance on the Ed Sullivan show, in Studio 50 in New York City -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
It was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
March on the Pentagon
The March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The protest involved more than 100,000 attendees at a rally by the Lincoln Memorial. Later about 50,000 people marched across the city to The Pentagon and sparked a confrontation with paratroopers on guard -
Mai Lai Massacre
The Mai Lai massacre was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam, on March 16, 1968 during the Vietnam War. -
Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention
the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. -
Woodstock
Woodstock was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York. Nearly 400,000 came to the festival. -
Chicago 8 Trial
eight antiwar activists charged with inciting violent demonstrations at the August 1968 Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago before Judge Julius Hoffman. -
The Beatles Break Up
McCartney issued a press release that stated he was no longer working with the group. This leading to the breakup of the beatles. -
Kent State Protest
What started out as a protest on campus lead to the killing of 4 people and is now know as a massacre. -
Roe vs. Wade
It was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.