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Jan 8, 1500
Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock 1500's
Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. And settled there. -
Industrial Revolution
One of the reasons the Industial Revolution started a man looked at women spining cotton for hours on endd and he said to himself there got to be a way to speed this process up so he went and built a spinning machine his name was Sir Richard Arkwright. This started in England. And he basically invented the modern factory. So this era was a factory and invention time of great machines. -
Revolutionary War
Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the conflict and by the next summer the rebel waere waging a full-scale war for their independence -
Decloration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is one of the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Here in these unforgettable phrases Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. Did you know that the political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been told by John Locke and the Continental philosophers. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was 530,000,000 acres long. The proce for this hugge chunk of land was 15 million. The person thats sold it was Napoleon Bonaparte His plan had failed there and he gave up selling the land to the Americans. -
Civil War
There was a bunch of reasons why it started but ill give you two The reason most people think it was started was because of slavery we were the biggest slave holder in the world. The other one was because we had to choose a certain area for our nations land and the North wanted this chunk of land that had forest But the Southerners wanted the south part because it had rich soil and a lot of farm land. The war started in 1861 and ended n 1865. I the end the Union won the war. -
Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Only five days after the Union won the Civil War. -
World War I
World War I started when a Serbian terrorist shot an Austro-Hungarian archduke in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1914. The world’s first global conflict the main countries were the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against the Allied forces of Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash in October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors -
The Dowl Bowl
The dust bowl was also known as black sunday. The dust bowl was basicaly a big giant tsand storm that blocked out any light killing hundreds of people. The ones driving on the road had to drive fast and hope that they beat the sandstorm home. -
World War II
The war started by Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, the war would drag on for six deadly years until the final Allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945. 30 countries were involved and nearly 85 million military and civilian related deaths. The war really started because Adolf's painting didnt get accepted into a Jewish museum and because he thought the Jews were why Germany had lost the war. -
Cold War
The cold war was between America and Russia. It wasnt like a war like you think of were theres a bunch of fighting and killing. The cold war was a race to the moon and technology wize and who had more power and knowledge. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther king Jr. was one of many to stand up for black freedom but he was on of the most famus. The thing most people rember him by is the "I have a dream" speech by him and it changed alot of things how people look at things in different ways. -
John F. Kennedy assassination
John F. Kennedy was shot and killed traveling through Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice in the neck and skull. His killer was Lee Harvey Oswald. JFK was 46 when he died 30 minuetes after the shooting -
September 11, 2001
Also know as 9/11. It change the world as we knew it three planes hit certain things that day. Two planes hit the twin towers and another plane hit the octagon but there was another plane gonna hit who knows were but the passengers of the plane took over the plane and crashed it to the ground in a feild. One tower got hit at 8:46 and the other at 9:03 A.M. Hundreds of Americans people died that day.Ever since then America has changed we have almost tripled are defenses and security at airports.
