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Start of Factories
Factories started in England.The factory system was a new way of organizing labor made necessary by the development of machines which were too large to house in a worker's cottage. Working hours were as long as they had been for the farmer, that is, from dawn to dusk, six days per week. -
French and Indian War
French and Indian War was also know as ''The Seven Years War''. Great Britain and New France were fighting. -
Boston Tea Party
Over 116 people participated in the Boston Tea Party, over a thousand witnessed the event. During the night, Adams and the sons boarded three ships and threw 342 chest of tea overboard. This result to the Coercive Acts and pushed the two sides close -
Revolutionary War
Great Britain and thirteen colonies in the United States were involved. The Stamp Act,Tea Act, and Boston Massacre lead up to the Revolutionary War. -
Writing on The Constitution
People involved in the Constitution were James Madison,Thomas Jefferson,Thomas Paine, John Adams,and George Washington. Alexander Hamilton wrote the Constitution. The Constitution of the United States is considered to be the foremost piece of legislature with regard to the implementation and authorization of legality and lawfulness within the United States. -
Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark journey was also known as the Corps of Discovery. Twenty Five Thousand Dollars was spent for this expedition. Over the next four years, the Corps of Discovery would travel thousands of miles, experiencing lands, rivers and peoples that no Americans ever had before. -
Missouri Comprise
Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Henry Clay was involved in this comprise. It regulated slavery in the country's western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north, except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri. -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was the period of American expansion that the United States was to stretch from the coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. The phrase was first employed by John L. O’Sullivan in an article on the annexation of Texas published in the July-August 1845 edition of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, which he edited. -
Civil War
In the Civil war, the Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. The Civil war started when southern states seceded from the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln. The Confederate President was Jefferson Davis. -
Assassination of Abraham
Abraham Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes as a result of his monetary policies. Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back of the head on the evening. He was attending a play, Our American Cousin, at the Ford Theater. He was taken across the street to a boarding house, The Peterson House, where he died within 24 hours of being shot. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery "Free-Staters" and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian", or "southern yankees" elements in Kansas. Abolitionist John Brown led anti-slavery fighters in Kansas before his famed raid on Harpers Ferry.
