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Pilgrams and Plymouth Rock
Europeans began to come to North America. An immigrant is a person that moves from one country to another. Over time, Europeans started many American colonies. A colony is a group of people who settle a distant land but are ruled their homeland. -
Revolutionary War
In 1775 the Revolutionary War began, and in 1776, the colonies proclaimed their freedom in the Decloration of Indipendance, written by Thomas Jefferson. By 1783, the U.S. ha won the war against Great Britian and become a new nation. -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president, was the one to write the Declaration of Independence. -
Industrial Revolution
During much of the 17oo's and 1800's, Americans were more concentrated with challanges that their own coutry faced than with events around the world. -
Louisiana Purchase
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Civil War
From the nation's beginnings some Americans want to end slavery. In time, the country split into opposite sides: Northern free states and Southern slave states. -
WWI
When WWI started in Europe in 1914, most Americans wanted to stay out of the fighting. Tehn Germany sank a number of ships, killing U.S. civilians. The U.S. joined the war in 1917and helped the Allies to win it. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a period of severe economic decline in the United States. Businesses failed, and millions were out of work. -
Dust Bowl
During WWI, farmers plowed up the Great Plains to plant crops. When drought hit in the 1930's, crops died. Wind storms blew away the soil, which no longer had the deep roots of praire plants to hold it. Dust damaged farms across a 25,000-square-mile region called the Dust Bowl. -
WWII
After WWII, the United States became a world leader. For decades it competed with the Communist Soviet Union to be the strongest political and military power. When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, the U.S. became the richest and most powerful nation in the world. -
Cold War
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John F. Kennedy's Assasination
Crowds of excited people lined the streets and waved to the Kennedys. The car turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m. As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza. Bullets struck the president's neck and head. At 1:00 p.m. John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead. http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/November-22-1963-Death-of-the-President.aspx?p=2 -
Moon Landing
On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. He said the historic words, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." http://www.kidport.com/reflib/science/moonlanding/moonlanding.htm#The Moon Landing -
September 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001, terrorist flew airplaines into the World Trade Center in New York City and into the Pentagon. Approximately 3,000 people died. -
Barack Obama is Elected the First African-American President
He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, and sworn in on January 20, 2009. He and his wife, Michelle, are the proud parents of two daughters, Malia and Sasha. http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-obama
