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Declaration Of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a document written by Thomas Jefferson that declared all American independence from Britain.The Second Continental Congress adopted the document.It provided the reasons for why Americans wanted to separate from Britain while providing the principles of government upon United States being built.John Locke's philosophy was the main idea of the Declaration of Independence. -
The Louisiana Purchase
A deal made between the U.S and the French in which the president at the time,Thomas Jefferson, bought Louisiana which had two impacts for the U.S and were doubling the U.S size and having the Mississippi river become a part of the U.S.The French got the budget for wars out of the deal since their budget was low. This deal was controversial since the U.S president was stated in the Declaration of Independence not to have the right to buy property without the Senate's consent. -
The Invention Of The Train
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The Lewis and Clark Journey West
A journey in which Lewis and Clark were being hired to go West in order to make new discoveries and is where they discovered many plants and animals that were unknown at the time in the West. Nobody really knew anything about the West at the time so that is why Lewis and Clark were hired in the first place. Lewis and Clark were also accompanied by Native Americans during the journey. -
The First Steamboat
John Finch made the steamboat with having the steamboat having its first trial on the Delaware river . -
The Texas Revolution
The Republic of Mexico had won independence from Spain and has control for the northern reaches. The northern reaches then turned into Texas. Texas later broke from Mexico and let U.S settlers in which resulted in the Texas Revolution happening because the Mexico government had been involved in political/cultural crashes with the American settlers that were in Texas which resulted in both places invading each other for control. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Revolution -
The Invention Of The Telegraph
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The Donner Party
The Donner party were a group of people heading West and included families and the main people in the party were the Donner brothers. When heading West, they were caught up in a snowstorm and this resulted in them having no supplies except for water. The party was then rumored to have turned to cannibalism because there was no supplies and it had the party eating other members of the party that were already dead -
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California Gold Rush
California was in an era where gold was found there which resulted in many people going to the west which California is located in and trying to find the riches of gold there. -
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush is when one man first found gold in the river located in San Francisco and keep in mind that gold is a very valuable thing. Rumor spread around about the man finding gold and turned into a hunt with people all over the world going their to mine for gold. This started in the first half of the 19th century in the west and resulted in millions of dollars worth of gold found. -
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Civil War
The Civil War was a war between the North and South after the South rebelled against the North for the fact that they believed that Abraham Lincoln was going to abolish slavery and that resulted in a war that lasted four years. The North won the war and slavery was abolish in result. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Being known as the biggest battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was after the Union's success on another battlefield. That made General Lee and his troops invade the North in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and the two sides clash into battle for three days and the Union won in result. -
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Reconstruction
A time after the Civil War where the South had to rebuild what was lost of theirs in the Civil War which was lots of buildings and such of the South that were destroyed. Another challenge of the South was to come to terms with the abolishment of slavery. -
Lee's Surrender At Apppomattox
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Lincoln's Assassination
Abraham Lincoln attended the viewing of the play Our American Cousin at Ford's theater in Washington D.C where Lincoln was assassinated by well known stage actor John Wilkes Booth. -
Completion Of The Transcontinental Railroad
The main way to travel West was really slow for people and there wasn't many ways to travel to the West which the government didn't like. That resulted in the Transcontinental Railroad being made and it is a faster way to go to the West or to transport goods to/from the West. -
The Invention of the Telephone
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The First Automobile
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The Invention Of The Radio
Guglielmo Marconi was the inventor of the first Radio and he invented it during August of 1895 -
The First Airplane
Two brothers which were the Wright brothers were dedicated to making all the parts for the airplane and were dedicated but finally in December 1903, they got to fly the airplane for a short time. -
The Invention Of The Television
Philo Taylor Farnsworth introduced the first electric television when he was only 21 -
John F. Kennedy Becomes President
John F. Kennedy became the president when he won the election of 1960, being the youngest president yet. Many Americans think that Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline brought excitement with a sense of style to the White house. His Inaugural address states of the dangers and the opportunities facing Americans as Kennedy also pursued a set of things called the new frontier. -
March On Washington
John F. Kennedy, the president at the time announced support on June 1963 for a civil rights bill to end racial discrimination saying it was a "moral crisis". On August 28, 1963, African American leaders held a March on Washington to show support for the civil rights bill.There was a diverse crowd of more than 200,000 people which Martin Luther King Jr. stood before where he had the "I Have a Dream" speech where King expressed the hope he had in a future in which all Americans had equal rights. -
The End Of Vietnam War
In 1964, the Vietnam war started where Americans try to get South Vietnam back from Communist and while doing that, interfered with North Vietnam which led U.S to go to war with North and South Vietnam. The Vietnam war finally ended on January 27th, 1973. The U.S signed a cease-fire known as the Paris Peace Accords with the representatives of North and South Vietnam along with Vietcong ones. The U.S agreed for withdrawing all of its troops while North Vietnam released all U.S prisoners of war. -
September 11th, 2001
The World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked by terrorists on September 11th. The two tallest buildings in the nation had crumbled to the ground which resulted in 2,500 lives killed.There was another airplane flown into the Pentagon which was the headquarters of the department of Defense.This attack was by an Islamic terrorist group called al Qaeda which was led by a man named Osama bin Laden who was later killed in 2011 by U.S troops in a raid in Pakistan. -
Happy B-Day!!!
This was the day when I was born and introduced to the world.
