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Exploration (1500-1599)
European trade for luxuries such as spices and silk had inspired European explorers to seek new routes to Asia. In 1453 had closed a crucial trade corridor. Trade throughout the Ottoman Empire was difficult and unreliable. Portugal was in the lead in exploration, slowly exploring the shores of the African Continent in search of a better route to the spices and luxuries of the Orient.Then the Italian Christopher Columbus submitted plans for a voyage to Asia by sailing around the world. -
American Rights (1700-1769)
Revolutionary war fought 25,000 men from America, 7,000 men died, and 18,500 men died for diseases or for others reasons. The war lasted 8 long years with 25 recorded battles. Benjamin Franklin was a writer, an inventor , and a scientist. He draft the declaration of independence and the constitution of the United States.29 years after the 1st outrage of slaves ,17 slaves war hung ,13 burned.The British government put extra taxes on American colonies , including taxes on paper, tea, etc. -
The American Revolution (1770-1779)
The American Revolution was a time when the British colonists in America rebelled against the rule of Great Britain. There were many battles fought and the colonies gained their freedom and became the independent country of the United States. The American Revolutionary War lasted from 1775 until 1783. Members of American colonial society argued the position of "no taxation without representation", starting with the Stamp Act Congress in 1765. -
America Builds (1790-1799)
George Washington, as president, approves the residence bill, legislation that authorize the buying of land along the Potomac river for federal buildings and parks.President Washington turns down a bill to apportion representation amongst the states.George Washington lays the cornerstone in the capitol buildings beginning the construction on the design by William Thornton ,first of 3 ships, the U.S. Frigate United States, is launched by the United States on this day as it to build up its navy. -
The Civil War (1800-1869)
It was a civil war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy). The most studied and written about episode in U.S. history. The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people. War broke out in April 1861 when secessionist forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina shortly after Abraham Lincoln had been inaugurated as the President of the United States. -
The War of 1812 (1810-1819)
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815. Historians in Britain often see it as a minor theater of the Napoleonic Wars; in the United States and Canada, it is seen as a war in its own right. From the outbreak of war with Napoleonic France, Britain had enforced a naval blockade to choke off neutral trade to France. Fighting took place in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. -
A Decade of Compromise and Doctrine (1820-1829)
The Missouri compromise bill, sponsored by he pry clay, passes in the United States congress, west of the Mississippi River that was north of 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude, the current southern line of the state of Missouri .
under this compromise, on august 10 1821. -
Conquering The West (1830-1839)
United States continues to expand, increasing its population 33 %in one decade to 12,860,702 in the 1830 census. The center of U.S. population go to the west, bot just slightly, to the point of nine teen miles west, Southeast of Moorefield, Henry Levitt Ellsworth begin one of the fist steps in the U.S. campaign to remove Indians from their homes on the east coast. -
The Mexican War (1840-1849)
The Mexican War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.In 1845, newly elected U.S. President James K. Polk, who saw the annexation of Texas as the first step towards a further expansion of the United States, sent troops to the disputed area. After Mexican forces attacked U.S. forces, Polk cited this in his request that Congress declare war. U.S. forces quickly occupied the regional capital of Santa Fe de Nuevo México along the upper Rio Grande. -
Expansion & the Looming Divide (1850-1859)
In 1850, the debate on slavery for the future escalated when Henry introduced the compromise of 1850 to the United States. Millard Fillmore was wanted into office as the 13th president of United States. In 1851, the American publishing industry manufactures Herman Melville's "Moby Dick". The industry also publishes Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House of Seven Gables". In 1851, and the painting of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" is completed by German-American artist Emmanuel. -
Lincoln assassinated (1865)
Lincoln was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 am.Occurring near the end of the American Civil War, the assassination was part of a larger conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the United States government. -
Reconstruction (1865-1877)
The Reconstruction was a significant chapter in the history of American civil rights. The first term applies to the complete history of the entire country from 1865 to 1877 following the American Civil War. The second, to the attempted transformation of the 11 ex-Confederate states from 1863 to 1877, as directed by Congress. Reconstruction ended the remnants of Confederate secession and ended slavery, making the newly-free slaves citizens with civil rights. -
The Nation's Centennial Decade (1870-1879)
The Philadelphia centennial exhibition closes expositions period after of 159 days not including Sundays. with paid and free attendance of 8,095,349. 9.9 million people, adding staff, saw for first time the 1st, long scale worlds fair in United States. The exhibits and inventions of upper echelon of nations was also credited with healing many of wounds still in civil war, irrevocable nation together with effort -
The Age of Immigration (1890-1899)
Ellis island,New York harbor, opens the main coast immigration center, that would remain the initial debarkation point for the European immigrants into the Unites states until its crosier in 1954. 12 millions , immigrants, would be processed on the island during years. 1890/1899 , this Ellis island replaced , castle garden,.
in Manhattan , as New York immigration center . -
The World Begins to Fly (1900-1909)
President William H. McKinley is shot at the pan > American exposition in Buffalo New York while shaking hands with fair visitors, following his speech at the event on president day the day before.
anarchist Leon czolgosz is arrested for the crime .
the City Las Vegas, Nevada is formed with the sale of one hundred and ten acres in the Downton area. -
The Great Depression (1930-1939)
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s. It was the longest and most widespread depression . In the 21st century,the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how intensely the world's economy can decline. It had devastating effects in countries both rich and poor. -
World War II (1940-1949)
World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries including all the great powers eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. It was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities. -
The Nation in Flux (1970-1979)
For 1st time , the 1970 census counted over 200 million people who living in United States. The 13.4 % increase since the last census that are 203, 302,031.
population now called U.S.A home . that took only fifty years to go from the fist 100 million census in 1920 in a second . -
The Fight against Terrorism (2000-2009)
Continuing its pattern of several years, irag refuses new proposals from the United Nations concerning weapons inspections.
the inspections were apart of the cease > fire agreement and terms of surrender in the 1991 Gulf war.
on September president George B.
addresses U.N. and warns the members that Iraq presents a grave dance to the world that they must confront. -
Economic Recovery (2010-Present)
the U.S census of 2010 is conducted, showing a 9.7 % increase from the 2000 census for a total of 308,745,538.
people. , the Geographic center of the population is now 2.7 miles northeast of plato, Missouri. Obama administration spending practices, including the health care legislation passed in march .
the 1st, of many occupy Wall Street protests begin in no City, clawing the big money interests, on Wall Street an d their relation ship to the recession and world economy .
