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The French and Indian war
The Seven Years’ War (called the French and Indian War in the colonies) lasted from 1756 to 1763, forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France called the Second Hundred Years’ War. the exiles suffered cruelly. of interest at home, rivalries among the American colonies, and France’s greater success in winning the support of the Indians. In 1756 the British declared war, but their new leader, faced the same problems and met with little success . -
The Boston Tea Party
People all over the world still commemorate the importance of the Boston Tea Party of 1773 to the stirring of the American Revolution. Historians swore that without that single fateful event, the revolutionary war would have not have taken place at all or at the very least, would have been delayed for many decades more. The uprising caused a series of unfortunate events on the side of caused by British oppressors. It all started from the love of tea.Because of the rise in payment. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
Battles of Lexington and Concord The Battles of Lexington and Concord marked the start of open conflict between thirteen Colonists and the British. The battle took place on April 19th, 1775, in County, Massachusetts Bay, near Boston. This battle marked the opening of armed hostilities between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America.The British Army infantry had occupied Boston since 1768 and were reinforced by their naval forces and marines. They had to inorder acts. -
The Declaration of Independence
he Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence in July of 1776. The declaration opens with a preamble All men are created equal and there are certain unalienable rights that governments should never violate. These rights include the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. When a government fails to protect those rights,peoples duty to overthrow. -
The Battle of Yorktown
On this day in 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. Earlier, in a stroke of luck for the Patriots.Although the war persisted on the high seas and in other theaters, the victory ended the battle of yorktown and following. -
The Constitutional convention
The Convention convened on May 25, 1787, at the State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia. It opened eleven days later than planned because of the slow arrival of some delegates. All of the states were represented except for Rhode Island, which declined to attend..) Second, no issue was to be regarded as closed and could be revisited for debate at any time.Two ground rules would govern the convention proceedings.To be all deliberations were to be kept in secrety for it has to be kept. -
Invention of Cotton Gin
U.S.-born inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. By the mid-19th century, cotton had become America’s leading export. Despite its success, the gin made little money for Whitney due to patent-infringement issues. Also, his invention offered Southern part.Secured many major involvments for other building.To manys cotton was an ideal crop to use and pick. -
The Ailen and Sedition Act
The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by Congress in 1798 in preparation for an anticipated war with France. The Naturalization Act increased the residency requirement for American citizenship from five - 14 years, required aliens to declare their intent to acquire citizenshipss five years before it could be granted, and rendered peoplesfrom enemy nations ineligible for naturalization. T against the government. The acts were designed by federlists.These specific acts were passed by congress. -
The Louisiana Purchase
With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic. What was known as Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north. Part or all of 15 states were eventually created from the land deal, which is an major achivement for presidency of him. -
The War of 1812
In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of seamen and America’s desire to expand its territories.Considered this war as the second independence day after the first july 4th.The war of 1812 proceded the new generation of great American generals.Breaks out in 1811. -
The Missouri Compromise
g up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. To keep the peace, Congress ordered an two peice agreement.This agreement stated their is to be no fighting against missouri or with others around them. -
Andrew Jackson Election
The William Blount faction of Tennessee politics wanted to nominate Jackson for the Presidency soon after his return from Florida. The faction convinced the legislature to back Jackson. To groom him for higher office, the Blount group ran him for the U.S. Senate again–defeating the current leader of the faction as an added bonus. Jacksons won by a vote in the legislature, and he set off for Washington again.Jacksons served senate for twenty six years.Quietly mended his relationships with others. -
The Panic of 1837
An already precarious economy was tipped over into crisis by depression in England, which resulted in a drop in the price of cotton from 17 ½ cents to 13 ½ cents a pound, and caused English banks and investors to cut back on their commitments in the New World and refuse extensions of loans. This was a particularly hard blow, because much of America's economic expansion depended on European capital. Andrew Jackson Bank reprucy may have caused the depression early which lead to the panic of 1827. -
The Invention of the Telegraph
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuels and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morses developed a code (bearing his name) that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines. The Telegraph has fallen off widespread. -
The Trail of Tears
At the beginning of the, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to .Sometimes known as difficult and deadly journey for those who take it.Conterversal indian removal act paved the way of trail of tears. -
The Mexican American War
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The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting .America was ready to fight westward.Leading to war for. -
The Compromise of 1850
Divisions over slavery in territory gained in the Mexican-American War were resolved in the Compromise of 1850. It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover slaves.The compromise was the largest involvement. -
The Firing of Fort Sumter
During the secession crisis that followed President Abraham Lincoln’s election in November 1860, many threats were made to Federal troops occupying forts in the South. Anderson, in command at the difficult-to-defend Fort Moultrie on Sullivan Island across the harbor from Charleston, began asking the War Department for reinforcements and making plans to move all his men to one of the for more secure lands for the gates to keep closed .Basically a seige of defense from supplies and communication . -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the country entered the third year of the Civil War. It declared that "all persons held as slaves … shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"—but it applied only to states designated as being in rebellion, not to the slave-holding border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri or to areas of the Confederacy that had already under Union control. Continues to be a sybmbol of equality. -
13th,14th,15th amendments
The objective of the 13th was also unusual. During the crises of secession and prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, the majority of bills passed by Congress had kept slavery intact. There was very little proposed legislation to abolish slavery. Congress-memberJohn Quincy Adams made a proposal in 1839, but there were no new proposals until December 14, 1863, when a bill to support an amendment to abolish slavery throughout the entire U.S All Amendments were very important to corresponding. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
On April 9, 1865, near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Days earlier, Lee had abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond and the city of Petersburg; his goal was to rally the remnants of his beleaguered troops, meet Confederate reinforcements in North Carolina and resume fighting.Leading the courthouse which lasted only a few hours, bringing the four -year civil war in. -
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
On the evening of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.On March 20, 1865, the day of the planned kidnapping, Abraham Lincoln failed to appear at the spot so they, failed to complete and just waited for. -
Andrew Johnson's Impeachment
The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson’s removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Andrew Johnson, a senator from Tennessee, was the only U.S. senator from a seced state who remained loyal to the Union. Appointed to help Tennesse. -
The Organization of Oil Trust
The 19th century was a period of great change and rapid industrialization. The iron and steel industry spawned new construction materials, the railroads connected the country and the discovery of oil provided a new source of fuel. The discovery of the Spindletop geyser in 1901 drove huge growth in the oil industry. Within a year, more than 1,500 oil companies had been chartered, and oil became the dominant fuel of the 20th century and an integral part of the American economy.Many settlers used. -
The Invention of electric light,Telephone,and airplane
The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, was born in Scotland in 1847, the same year as Thomas Edison . There he used visible speech (a type of phonetic notation that shows the position of the throat, mouth, and tongue to make different sounds) to teach deaf-mute people and Orville read everything about flight that they could get their hands on in Dayton. They studied the four forces of flight which includes the following (lift, gravity, thrust, and drag).Taking difference times. -
The Pullman and Homstead Strike
he Homestead strike, in Homestead, Pennsylvania, pitted one of the most powerful new corporations, Carnegie Steel Company, against the nation’s strongest trade union, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. An 1889 strike had won the steelworkers a favorable three-year contract; but by 1892 Andrew Carnegie was determined to break the union. His plant manager, Henry Clay , stepped up production demands, and when the Union refused to want the new conditions began locking workers in. -
The Spanish-American war
The Spanish-American War (1898) was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. Their originated in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, began in February 1895. Spain’s brutally repressive measures to halt the rebellion were graphically portrayed for the U.S. public by several sensational newspapers, and American sympathy over those in need . -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
Theodore Roosevelt or Teddy, was the 26th president of the United States. Roosevelt was born in 1858 in New York. He was primarily schooled at home, followed by Harvard College and Columbia Law School. Roosevelt didn’t finish law school, opting instead to become a member of the New York State Assembly. He also served as a captain in the National Guard, a police commissioner for New York City, and an assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy.He later made a group organization of voulnteers to helpout. -
The Discovery of America by Colombus
Although Columbus was not even the first European to 'discover' or even explore the Americas, having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson, he was the first to create extended interest in the New World and make it a centerpiece of colonization efforts by the Spanish, French, English, and others. If there actually had been other Europeans who traveled to the Americas earlier, why, then, do we say Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America? Colombus got the furthest with it. -
The Settlement of JamesTown
On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. Famine, disease and conflict with local Native American tribes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure before the arrival of a new group of settlers and supplies in 1610. Tobacco became Virginia’s first export, and a period of peace followed the marriage of colonist in order of it.
