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Pligrams and Plymouth Rock 1500's
When the pilgrms landed on America in the 1500's , when they came they named the settlement they made Plymouth. The pilgrmas crved in a granate grock the year 1620 for the year they came on the mayflower. This rock symbolizes colonial liberty. -
Industrial revolution
The Industrial revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to s1820. This revolutions main people in the was Andrew Carnige, John D. Rockafeller, Cornelius Vanderbelt, and J.P Morgan and Henry Ford. These men shaped America and it would not be the way it is if they woudl not have created the thigns they did, new and afortible cars, The standard oil comapny, railroads, a new way of banking. -
The Revolutionary War
This war statrted in Arpril 1775 and ended in September, 1785. This War was a conflict between, Great Brittan and 13 of it's North American colonies. The colonies wanted freedom from the Brittish crown. The colonies wanted to be free from the Brittish crown because Britain was heavily taxing the colonies, they were also passed many laws to control the cononies. In 1776 the colonies proclamed their freedom in the Declaration of Independence, which was written by Thomas Jefferson. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was written and signed in Philadephia. The Declaration of Independence was written while the revolutionary war was still going on. They wrote this to try to gain freedom from Great Brittan. The Americans feared the abuses of power so they set up a vey weak national government. -
Louisiana Purchace
The Louisiana purchace was boughten from France in 1803. This purchace of land more than doubled the size of the U.S. Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwheather Lewis and William Clark to explore this teritory -
California Gold Rush
The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush. As news spread of the discovery, thousands of prospective gold miners traveled by sea or over land to San Francisco and the surrounding area. -
The Civil War
The Civil War took place from April 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865. This War was to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. This War was known as the most bloody war. This War abolished slavery. -
WWI ( War to end all Wars)
World War 1 was a global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. In late June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. An escalation of threats and orders followed the incident, leading to the outbreak of World War I, which, Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (the so-called Central Powers) against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan(Later U.S). -
Great Depression
In the 1920's this was an era of weath and much progress, almost everyone owned stocks. In 1929 stock prices plumited and almost the entire country lost their jobs. People were out of jobs becuause of businesses were failing. -
WW2
A global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of "total war''. The U.S entered the war by Japan bombing Pearl Harbor which later the U.S atomcly bombed Japan. -
Manhattan Project
The job of the Manhattan Project was to make an atomic bomb before the Nazi's did. To make the atomic bomb they would have had to split an atom. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between the Soviet Union and America. This war had no armed fighting. This cold war ended in 1997. -
Septeber 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. -
Space shuttle Columbia disaster
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana as it reentered Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.
During the launch of Columbia's 28th mission, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank and struck the left wing. -
Dust bowl
The Dust bowl was in a large area in the Great plaines that suffered through drought and dust storms. These dust storms happened because the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor, so the winds easily picked up the loose topsoil and swirled it into dense dust clouds, called “black blizzards.” Recurrent dust storms wreaked havoc, choking cattle and pasture lands and driving 60 percent of the population from the region.
