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The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. This should be remembered for a very long time because this is what got us out of the Kings command. -
The Lewis and Clark Journey
President Jeffrison Hired Lewis and Clark to explore the west all the way to the pacific ocean. Lewis a Map maker and a outdoors man. Clark was a capin of the boat they took to the Missouri River. It took them 12 months to cross america. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a great deal from the france. The france needed to pay off the war dept so the presidant took the 827,000 square miles of land for 15 million dollars. Thats about 3 cents acre. -
The Texas Revolution
The texas revolution also known as Texas War of Independence was a battle between the govement of mexico and the texas colonists. They fought to break texas away from mexico. -
Donner Party
The Donner Party was a group of American who set out for California in a wagon. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the immigrants came into cannibalism to survive, eating those who had died of starvation and sickness. (wiki) -
The Mexican American War
The Mexican American War marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign land. The mexicans sent a letter to the congress saying "Mexico has invated our territory and shed American blood upon tha american soil" and the war began.
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The California Gold Rush
This is when people discovered gold in California. People from all over the WORLD! People from china, mexico, and people from evrywhere came for the gold.
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Battle of Fort Sumter
The attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 marked the beginning of the American Civil War. With the booming of cannons over the harbor in Charleston, South Carolina, the secession crisis gripping the country escalated into a shooting war. -
Trench Warfare
The middle part of the war, 1916 and 1917, was dominated by continued trench warfare in both the east and the west. Soldiers fought from dug-in positions, striking at each other with machine guns, heavy artillery, and chemical weapons. -
The Acttack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
D-day
On D-Day, General Dwight Eisenhower led U.S. and Allied troops in an invasion of Normandy, France. The armies fought their way through France and Belgium and into Germany while Russian troops fought from the east. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. -
Brown v. Board
Brown v. Board of Education, now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
USA Walks on the Moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC -
My birthday
I was born in Ephrida hospital 2001. My parents just came from Belarus. I had an older brother when i was bron witch is two years older than me. -
911
This is a very sad date. Hundreds and thousands of people died.
