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jamestown
Jamestown was established by English males that were in search of gold, but failed to find enough gold to make a profit. Problems like disease and famine were hardships faced in the colonies.John Rolfe established the tobacco industry in the Jamestown colony which became prosperous due to European consumers.To attract immigrants, Virginia offered 50 acres of land to any immigrant that paid for his own or another immigrant's passage (headright system). -
plymouth/pilims
The Plymouth colony was established by about 100 pilgrims from England. They made their way to the Americas on a ship called the Mayflower. Aboard the Mayflower, they created the first governing document in the Plymouth colony called the Mayflower compact. The Pilgrims were intolerant of religious diversity because of their persecution in England. -
Revolutionary War Begins
700 British troops marched into Lexington to seize a patriot arsenal and found 77 minutemen waiting for them. The minutemen were ordered to leave and as they were doing so an unidentified gun fired (Battle of Lexington) which began the Revolution. -
Ratification of the Constitution
The Constitution was written to try to address the Article of Confederation's flaws. Supporters of the Constitution were called Federalists which supported a strong central government and opposes were called Anti-Federalists. -
Lousiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson purchased 828,000 square miles of land from the French government for 15 million dollars which doubled the size of the U.S. and expanded the power of the president (purchasing land was not mentioned in the Constitution). Jefferson wanted this land to create an agrarian society. -
A Formal Ceremony Transfers The Louisiana Territory From France To The United States
Effective on October 1, 1804, the purchased territory was organized into the Territory of Orleans (most of which became the state of Louisiana) and the District of Louisiana, which was temporarily under the control of the governor and judges of the Indiana Territory. -
The Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was written by John Q. Adams and adressed to Congress by President Monroe. It stated that the Americas were no longer subject to colonization by the Western powers and that Western powers were no longer allowed to intervene or engage in American (North and Latin) affairs -
The Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. The law led to the relocation of Native Americans which became known as the "Trail of Tears." -
Texas Revolution
Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution, was fought. Troops led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexican Army. -
Mexican-American War Ends
The U.S. was victorious in the Mexican-American War. To end the war, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. The U.S. gained a major portion of Mexico's land (Mexican cession) which is now the states of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and portions of New Mexico and Colorado. The U.S. accomplishes Manifest Destiny. -
Whig party
Zachary Taylor was inaugurated as the 12th president of the US. He was the third, and last, candidate of the Whig Party to hold the office. -
The Civil War Begins/Fort Sumter
The Union had a military base (Fort Sumter) in South Carolina. The fort was cut off from necessary supplies and Lincoln announced he was sending food over. Southerners fired at the fort and captured it which is what is known to have started the War. -
Robert E. Lee Surrenders/End of the Civil War
Robert E. Lee surrendered his 28,000 troops at the Appomattox courthouse to Ulysses S. Grant which effectively ended the Civil War. -
Thanksgiving an offcial holiday
Sarah J. Hale, a magazine editor who urged President Lincoln to make Thanksgiving an official holiday, died at the age of 90. -
Photographer Alexander Gardner
Photographer Alexander Gardner, who took notable photographs of the Civil War, died at the age of 61. -
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis, former president of the Confederate States of America, died at the age of 81. -
World War 1
The heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's throne was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, set off a chain events that led to the start of World War I one month later. -
Octaviano Larrazolo
Octaviano Larrazolo was a Republican politician who served as the fourth Governor of New Mexico and a United States Senator. He was the first Mexican-American United States Senator. -
black tuesday
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929, and was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. -
Empire state buling
The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets in Midtown, Manhattan, New York City. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (381 m), and with its antenna included, it stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall. -
japan surprise attack
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, and was the surprise attack by Japanese forces 1941. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. -
Manhattan project
In the end, it would be a success in that it forced Japan to surrender and finally ended the war. However, it opened the world to the Atomic Age and killed or injured over 200,000 people in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. as use "Manhattan project" to develop the first stomic bomb -
Jackie Robinson
Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years -
President John F. Kennedy
On this day, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Kennedy took office on January 20, 1961. From the start of his term, he was faced with a deteriorating situation in Southeast Asia, in which both Laos and South Vietnam were threatened by communist insurgencies. -
loving movie
the supereme Court overules the prohibition of interracial marriage in loving v. Virginia: case after Mildred Loving, a black woman< and Richard Loving, a white man< had been sentenced to a year in pariosn in virgina for marrying -
Dr.Martin Luther Jr.
African American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America. -
NASA's 11 land on a moon
Neil Armstrong descends a ladder to become the first human to step onto the surface of the Moon -
Richard Nixon
President Richard Nixon resigns the presidency, effective August 9. The Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel and office complex on June 17, 1972 -
Chief Justice Warren Burger
Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first female U.S. Supreme Court justice in history when she is sworn in by Chief Justice Warren Burger. Sandra Day was born in El Paso, Texas, in 1930. She grew up on her family’s cattle ranch in southeastern Arizona and attended Stanford University, where she studied economics -
British computer scientist
British computer scientist who is widely credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989. He founded the World Wide Web Foundation in 2009, which works to improve the availability of the internet. -
9/11
that what Islamic plan hit of name 4 area but most sad story of World Trade Center York and Pentagon in Virginia -
Brack Obama
Barack Obama is elected, become American's first African-American president
