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  • Columbian Exchange
    1500

    Columbian Exchange

    A transfer of goods, ideas, technologies, plants, and customs. Led to many new ways to get food and tobacco to the Europeans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPA5oNpfM4
  • Wheel-Lock Musket
    1500

    Wheel-Lock Musket

    The first musket that could be fired by a single person. Allowed the holder walk around with the musket. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheellock
  • The Compound Microscope

    The Compound Microscope

    In the Netherlands, Zacharias Janssen invented the compound microscope. Allowed for further scientific discovery. https://www.livescience.com/39649-who-invented-the-microscope.html
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    Many people died on the ships that took settlers to Jamestown. People came for money. They starved until they started to grow tobacco. Pg. 14,15, and 17 in America the Story of US.
  • Refracting Telescope

    Refracting Telescope

    German-Dutch spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey invented the first refracting telescope. Allowed for further scientific discovery. https://www.thoughtco.com/17th-century-timeline-1992482
  • Universal Joint

    Universal Joint

    English architect and natural philosopher Robert Hooke invents the universal joint https://www.thoughtco.com/17th-century-timeline-1992482
  • Piano

    Piano

    Bartolomeo Cristofori invented the piano. https://www.thoughtco.com/18th-century-timeline-1992474
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    French were beating the British, but the British came back and won. They fought over the Ohio River Valley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qbzNHmfW0
  • Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions

    Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions

    King George III taxed all paper products imported to the thirteen colonies. The colonists sent a letter to King George III asking for more fair laws. (Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions)
  • Proclamation LIne of 1763

    Proclamation LIne of 1763

    The colonists were forbade from settling the land west of the Ohio River Valley. (Proclamation of 1763)
  • The Swivel Chair

    The Swivel Chair

    Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair by taking apart an old Windsor chair and attaching the four legs to a central point with an iron spindle. This allowed the seat to revolve in place.
  • Siege of Yorktown

    Siege of Yorktown

    George Washington laid siege to Lord Cornwallis in Yorktown and Lorn Cornwallis surrendered. The Siege of Yorktown was the last battle of the Revolutionary War (Key Battles in the American Revolution).
  • The Steam Engine

    The Steam Engine

    Though under development in Europe for several years, the telegraph was developed independently in the United States by Samuel Morse and his assistant, Alfred Vail, in 1837. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy
  • Trail of Tears

    Trail of Tears

    The Indians were forced out of their homes. They were sent west to Oklahoma. (America Story of Us Pg. 70-71)
  • California Gold Rush

    California Gold Rush

    California's population grew exponentially and people came from all around the world to try and strike it rich. https://student.teachtci.com/shared/sections/8237?program_id=109
  • The Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850

    California entered the U.S. as a free state. Utah and New Mexico's policy on slavery was popular sovereignty. Also, the D.C. slave trade was banned, but the Fugitive Slave was Passed. https://student.teachtci.com/shared/sections/8216?program_id=109
  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg

    This was the turning point of the Civil War, more than a third of Lee's men died. This was also the Battle with the most casualties throughout the Civil War: 46,286.
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S., which angered many Southerners at the time. https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=40
  • Dynamite

    Dynamite

    Dynamite can be used for mining and excavating. It helped build the transcontinental railroad by blowing holes through mountains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite
  • Tank

    Tank

    The tank put an end to trench warfare during WW1. The British invented it. https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-britain-invented-the-tank-in-the-first-world-war
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Zimmerman Telegram

    It was a message from Germany to Mexico saying that if the U.S. joined the war on the Allies side then Germany would financially support Mexico.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram
  • V-2 Bomb

    V-2 Bomb

    It was the world's first long range guided missile. It gave the German more of an advantage against the Allies.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Battle of Stalingrad

    Turning point on the East front of WW2. Russians lost more troops than the Nazis, but they won. It also increased morale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    The post WWII conference among U.S., Britain, and Stalin. It determined post war borders in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference
  • First Atomic Bomb Successfully Detonated

    First Atomic Bomb Successfully Detonated

    It happened in a remote desert location near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The U.S. had the biggest bomb the world had ever seen by far. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/atomic-bomb-history
  • Transistor

    Transistor

    John Bardeen invented the transistor. The transistor could work as an amplifier or as a switch. http://www.cedmagic.com/history/transistor-1947.html
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    Americans supported South Vietnam in a war against the North Vietnamese because the U.S. did not want communism to spread in that area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War