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French and Indian War
1754 – 1763 The French and Indian War was a dispute over the Ohio River valley between Britain and France. Both of these forces wanted control of the valley in order to trade with the Native Americans. In the end, outnumbering the French, Britain won the battle. -
Industrial Revolution
1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. The Industrial revolution was a period of time which many people across America began using machines and factories for mass production. This revolution brought new ways for transportation and trade. It also brought lots of money to the American people. -
The Boston Tea Party
Enraged by the new Tea Act, people of Boston infiltrated 3 ships that were sent into the harbor carrying loads of tea. Before a tax on the tea could be collected, the Boston people tossed many chests of tea into the waters. -
Revolutionary War
April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783 The Revolutionary War was a war of independence from the British. The Americans fought for the freedom to establish their own country away and without help from the British. This gruesome 8 year long war ended in a victory for the American people. -
Writing of the Constitution
The Constitution was written during the Philadelphia Convention—now known as the Constitutional Convention—which convened from May 25 to September 17, 1787. It was signed on September 17, 1787 by delegates of the Continental Congress. -
Start of Factories
The first American factory was built in 1790 by Samuel Slater. Cotton and woolen factories were the most common to be built before the Civil War. Throughout the years going into the War of 1812, corporations became more plentiful. -
Lewis and Clark
After Thomas Jefferson completed the Louisiana Purchase he dispatched Lewis and Clark to explore the land west of the Mississippi. The 8,000 miles trek took over two and a half years. The two explorers had numerous brushes with death, meet many Indian tribes while they became the first Americans to lay eyes on many of the wonders of the American west. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was an effort by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to maintain a balance of power between the slave holding states and free states. Representative James Tallmadge, Jr., of New York offered two amendments to the Missouri statehood bill on Feb. 13, 1819. The first prohibited any further importation of slaves into Missouri; the second required gradual emancipation for the slaves already there. -
Manifest Destiny
The Manifest Destiny of 1845 was the belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. Few Americans had ever assumed that the boundaries of the United States would stand forever unchanged. Manifest Destiny was the driving force responsible for changing the face of American history. It was the philosophy that created a nation. -
Bleeding Kansas
It was in 1854 that the Kansas-Nebraska Act was created and overturned the Missouri Compromise's boundaries. With this Act came the need to determine whether or not the territory would be pro or anti slavery. It was decided that the residents of the state would make the determination. This led to immediate violence as pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers started pouring into Kansas in order to help swing the vote in their favor. -
The Civil War
The Civil War was between the Northern States of America and the Southern. The North fought for the freedom of slaves, and the South fought for pro-slavery and to secede from the Union. The North won in the end and slavery was soon abolished and the South was accepted back into the Union. -
Reconstruction
The first part of reconstruction covers the complete history of the entire country from 1865 to 1877, following the Civil War. The second part focuses on the transformation of the Southern States, from 1863 to 1877, as directed by Congress, with the reconstruction of state and society. Reconstruction began and ended at different times, in different states. Federal Reconstruction finally ended with the Compromise of 1877. -
Assasination of Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, who was a confederate sympathizer. The theory is that President Lincoln was assassinated because of his monetary policies. Meaning monetary authority of a country controls the supply of money, and influencing currency. In short, he needed money for the war. After Lincoln died from his head wound, Vice President Jackson stepped into the role of president.
