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• Signing of the Declaration of Independence
It was approved on July 4, 1776 -
The adoption of the Articles of Confederation
After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress, sitting in its temporary capital of York, Pennsylvania, agrees to adopt the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union on this day in 1777. Not until March 1, 1781, would the last of the 13 states, Maryland, ratify the agreement. -
The British Surrender at Yorktown
When the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. They expected help from British ships sent from New York. -
Shays Rebellion: Attack on Spring field Armory
This was the beginning of the end of the uprising known as Shays' Rebellion, named for Daniel Shays, the man who led the insurgents. Western farmers had made economic sacrifices during the Revolution, and they were outraged when creditors demanded that they pay their debts immediately. -
Constitutional Convention
The most contentious disputes revolved around the composition and election of the Senate, how "proportional representation" was to be defined (whether to include slaves or other property), whether to divide the executive power between three persons or invest the power into a single president, how to elect the president, how long his term was to be and whether he could stand for reelection, what offenses should be impeachable, the nature of a fugitive slave clause, whether to allow the abolition -
Ratification of the United States Constition
When it was binded by the states. -
The ratification of the Bill of Rights
Articles 3 to 12, 1791, by three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights. -
Patent issued for the cotton Gin
The cotton gin allowed people to gather cotton faster. It also allowed the cotton to be cleaned faster. -
Lewis & Clark Expidition
To September 23, 1806. They were sent out to see what laid out in their new land. -
First built mill in Lowell, Massachusetts
The Boott Mill as it became known, was Lowell’s first textile mill. A year after the mill was built, the first school and church were founded in Lowell, and in 1831, St. Patrick’s Church was built as one of the first Catholic churches in the area north of Boston, in a neighborhood known as the Acre. -
Trial of Tears
It was when Andrew Jackson threw out the Native americans because they wouldn't adapt to their culture. The Indians thrown out were the five "civilized" tribes -
Gold Discovered at Sutters Mill
On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found several flakes of gold that began the transformation of the territory to a bustling center of activity.During the next seven years, approximately 300,000 people came to California (half by land and half by sea) to seek their fortunes from either mining for gold or selling supplies like picks and shovels to the gold prospectors. -
Signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The war officially ended with the February 2, 1848, signing in Mexico of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. -
The Battle of Fortt Sumter
It was the bombartment and surrender of Fort Sumter -
The Battle of Fort Gettysburg
The most engagedment battle in the Civil War -
The Battle of Little Bighorn
The battle occured near the Little Bighorn river -
Dreat Depression
Began when the market stock crashed. -
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
When the firt humans set foot on the moon. -
September 11th Attacks
When the terrorists attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon -
My Birthday
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The inauguration of Barack Obama
The first four year term for Barack Obama