U.S. History

By as856@students.susd12.org

  • Colonial America

    Original names of the first 13 colonies
    Location and a map
    13 colonies order in establish
    Dates founding 1585-1607

  • French - Indian War

    July 9, 1755

  • Declaration of Independence

    July 4, 1776
    Thomas Jefferson
    The purpose was to announce and explain seperation from Great Britain
    Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness

  • American Revolution

    April 19, 1775 - September 3, 1783

  • Constitutional Convention

    Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York send delegates, but the expected representatives of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and North Carolina never show up
    Benjamin Franklin

  • Louisana Purchase

    April 30, 1803

  • Women's Rights Movement

    1848- 1920
    Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Abby Kelley Foster and Sojourner Truth
    Woman, like the slave, he argued, had the right to liberty

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    January 1, 1863
    Third year of bloody Civil War

  • Civil War

    April 12 1861 - May 9 1865
    Abraham Lincoln
    slavery

  • Spanish - American War

    April 1, 1898

  • World War I

    July 28, 1914
    Woodrow Wilson

  • World War II

    September 1, 1939
    Germany, Italy and Japan
    Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
    Dwight Eisenhower

  • Great Depression

    October 1, 1939
    Herbert Hoover

  • Civil Rights Movement

    1861-1865
    Abraham Lincoln

  • Cold War

    July 4, 1991
    The main concern of the United States and the other western powers during the Cold War was that the Soviet Union would obtain control of the Western .

  • 9/11/01

    Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers took control of four commercial airliners.