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Poor Richards Almanac
The most popular and famous piece of writing was published by Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century. -
The Seven Years War
The Seven Years' War or the French and Indian War took over Europe from 1756 to 1763 and was the bloodiest American war in the 18th century. -
American Revolution
The colonies had won against the British and gained their independence but details about slavery and the role of women were in question during and after the war. -
Lexington and Concord
This is considered "the shot hear around the world" it was the beginning of the revolution. -
The Declaration of Independence
The document was written by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams. This was the beginning of the separation from England. -
The Enlightenment Era
The era of intellectual, philosophical, cultural, and social movement was present throughout England, France, Germany, and other parts of Europe. -
The Constitution
The Constitution is made the supreme law of the United States and describes the different duties of the 3 branches of government. -
The Bill of Rights
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution are what we know as the Bill of Rights. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The US paid a total of 80 million Francs which is $15 million dollars to the French government as a treaty deal. In this deal, they received all of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and parts of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Louisiana. -
The War of 1812
This war gave America a new look, it determined its independence from Britain. America won the war. -
The Monroe Doctrine
John Quincy Adams wrote the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that European nations should not get involved in countries to the south of the U.S. -
The Civil War
The war was between the North and South, the south wanted to have slavery and the north wanted slavery abolished. After this war, the 13th amendment was created, and this changed America forever. -
The 13th Amendment
Congress created the 13th amendment which made slavery illegal in all parts of the US. It took 2 centuries after that to make slavery cease to exist. -
WWI
The war ended on November 11, 1918, this war left mass amounts of destruction and deaths, and millions lost their lives. The phrase "trench warfare" was also coined. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression. The stock market crashed and everything that everyone owned or had been worth about the amount of a shovel of dirt. The Depression hit everyone at a different time and ended about 10 years later in 1939, some say at the start of WWII -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American plains during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon. This event lasted for 6 years, then ended in 1936. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the mass homicide of 6 million Jewish people in Nazi Germany was run by Hitler. -
WWII
The war lasted from 1939 - 1945 between the allies and axis powers. -
The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement begin when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus in 1955. This movement was after WWII and lasted until 1968. -
Malcolm X - "Ballot or the Bullet" speech
This speech highly encourages people of color to overcome their class, religion, and other differences to come together and fight racial oppression.