United States History Class Timeline 2015-16

  • The Boston Masscre

    The Boston Massacre happend because people started throwing things at the British soldiers so the British soldiers fired their guns and killed 5 people
  • The Louisiana Purchase

    The Louisiana Purchase
    The louisiana purchasd was a deal between The United States and France. The United States got aproximatly 827,000 square miles west of the mississippi river and they got it for $15 million
  • The Lewis and Clark Journey West

    The Lewis and Clark Journey West
    They started upstream on the Missouri River from their St. Louis-area camp—where they were getting ready for the expedition since fall 1803—on May 14, William Clark and nearly four dozen other men met up with Meriwether Lewis on May 20.
  • The Alamo

    The Alamo
    In December 1835, during Texas’ war for independence from Mexico, a group of Texan volunteer soldiers occupied the Alamo, a former Franciscan mission located near the present-day city of San Antonio. On February 23, 1836, a Mexican force numbering in the thousands and led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began a siege of the fort. Though vastly outnumbered, the Alamo’s 200 defenders–commanded by James Bowie and William Travis and including the famed frontiersman Davy Crockett–held out cour
  • The Donor Party

    The Donor Party
    On October 28, a heavy snowfall blocked the high mountain passes, trapping the emigrants in a frozen wilderness. Eventually reduced to cannibalism to survive–at least according to legend–only 45 of the original 89 emigrants reached California the following year.
  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    what happend- the fort got attacked andhtey surrender
    why is it important-because the fort got attacked
  • The Death of Elvis

    What happend-Elvis died
    Why is it important-the radio started playing his songs everywhere
  • 911 happend

    the 911 happend on an account with ensama ben ladden/terorrism
  • MY BIRTHDAY!!