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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
-Magna Carta was written in Latin
-It was singed by King John and sealed in June 15,1215
-According to the british usage,they dont call it "The Magna Carta" instead "Magna Carta" -
Jamestown Colony
-Jamestown was the first enduring English settlement in North America.
It is America’s birthplace.
-The Virginia Company of
London settled the colony at Jamestown
-The Indians in virginia were the Powhaten Indians these Indians lived in the Virginia coastal plain and there was about 32 Algonquian-speaking tribes. -
Plymouth Colony
-The males aboard the Mayflower had signed the so-called Mayflower Compact, a document that would become the authority of Plymouth’s goverment.
-There was so much peace in the Plmouth that the colonists were able to focus on bulding settlements for themselfs than spending time guarding.
-Fishing and trading helped the people be able to provied for them self. -
Enlightenment
-The Enlightenment’s meaningful 17th-century precursors included the Englishmen Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, the Frenchman Renee Descartes and the key natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution, including Galileo, Kepler and Leibniz.
-During the time of religious (and anti-religious) innovation, christians accepted to reposition their faith qalomg rational lines and deists and materialists argued about the universe.
-Philosophers influenced society by publishing widely read works. -
California Gold Rush
-The gold nuggets were discoverd by James Wilson Marshall in the American river ,thats wehen the gold rush started .
-Many gold miners heard about the gold nuggets so many started to travel to San Francisco by sea or land.THe land was surrounded by 1849
-By time it was getting more and more difficult to reach the gold .But after the new technique of hydraulic mining in 1853 it brought many profits but destroyed regions of landscape. -
U.S Civil War
-The mid-19 century while united states was going through a extraordinary growth, a fundamental economic diffrence previal between the countrys northerns and southerns regions.
-Many southerns feared of the existence of slavary in America because the abolitionist sentiment in the north and northern oppositionto slavary extension.
-The Civil War started because of determine differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to forbid slavery in territories. -
Reconstruction
-The victory at the Civil War in 1865 ave 4 million slaves their freedom but the reconstruction did set new challenges.
-President Andrew Johnson announced his plans for Reconstruction on May
-all land that had been impond by the Union Army and distributed to the freed slaves by the army or the Freedmen’s Bureau reverted to its prewar owners. -
World War 1
-In this war it was the first time an aircraft was used in battle.
-5 thousand German soldiers lost therir lives serving in the u-boats during the war.
-On July 28,Austra-Hungary declared war on Serbia,in reach of a week Russia, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Serbia had lined up against Austria-Hungary and Germany,thats when the war started. -
U.S Constitution
- The constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, supervised over by George Washington.
- In 1791 the constitution included the Bill of Rights 10 amendments also following the freedom of speech and religion. -Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania State House
