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1400's Dresses
It usually was a long gown, usually with sleeves, worn over a kirtle or undergown, with a linen chemise or smock worn next to the skin. The sleeves were made detachable and were heavily ornamented. The dress of northern Europe developed a low V-neck that showed a glimpse of the square-necked kirtle.
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Columbian Exchange
It was the exchange of goods between the Old World and the New World. It mainly included people, animals, crops, and diseases. The Columbian exchange affected the native American population greatly because many people were wiped out from the diseases.
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1500
1500's dresses
Women usually wore big, heavy and stiff dresses with big sleeves. The collars usually covered their necks for modesty. Women wore heels with pointed toes.
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1600's dresses
Women wore long dresses. The dress was in two parts, the bodice and the skirt. Sometimes women wore two skirts. The upper skirt was gathered up to reveal an underskirt.
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Jamestown
The Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. It was the first successful colony in America.
Source: Guided Notes -https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D05bzHA0wmV5dcqDqxVZEJdPb_q0cJU7kQFXjPbWGnY/edit
Jamestown Letter- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hyKI3JEAn_a9gV-22W1n26xKIDiILBY1iYQVqqvTX_w/edit -
1700's dresses
The women wore a dress known as a mantua for formal occasions. The mantua was an open-fronted silk or fine wool gown with a train and matching petticoat. In the 1730s, the 'sack back' dress worn over a hoop petticoat became increasingly fashionable.
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War began over the issue of whether the Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire or part of the French Empire. The French built forts in the territory which made the British begin to send troops. The British won in the end.
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Proclamation of 1763
at the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation. It closed down colonial expansion westward, and it was the first measure to affect all thirteen colonies. This proclamation caused uproar and rebellion in colonies.
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Revolutionary war
It started from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the British government. The war was fought to gain American independence. It lasted 7 years and the Americans won.
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1800's dresses
women wore light dresses. They had puffed sleeves, they wore frames of whalebone or steel wire called crinolines under their skirts, and the front of the skirt was flat but it bulged outwards at the back. This was called a bustle and it disappeared in the 1890s. From the 1840s onward it was fashionable for women to have very small waists so they wore corsets.
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Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana territory from the French for 15 million dollars. It acted as a gateway for westward expansion and stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north.
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Underground Railroad
A network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States. Happened during the early to mid-19th century, and used by African-American slaves to escape. They traveled to free states and Canada.
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California Gold Rush
Gold was found in the riverbeds of California. That caused a mass rush of immigrants who hoped to strike gold. They thought of becoming rich influenced many people to pack up and leave.
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The Minie Ball
It was invented in France. It weighed an ounce, was 1/2 an inch long, and made out of Molten Lead. 1 person can Comcast 3,000 Minnie balls per hour. An entire industry starts just for the making of Minnie balls to supply the demands of the army.
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Civil War
Began after decades of tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America. The War Between the States ended in Confederate surrender in 1865. It was the costliest and deadliest war with 620,000 soldiers killed and much of the South left in ruin.
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The Battle of Antietam
Occurred on September 22, 1862, at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. It pitted Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia against Union General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac and was the final of Lee’s attempt to invade the north. The battle’s outcome would be vital to shaping America’s future, and it remains the deadliest one-day battle in all American military history.
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The Emancipation Proclamation
On September 22, he issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” While the Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave, it was an important turning point in the war, transforming the fight to preserve the nation into a battle for human freedom.
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13 Amendment
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery officially in the United States. The 13th Amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
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black codes
The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 in the United States restricting the freedom of African Americans. Under black codes, many states required blacks to sign yearly labor contracts; if they refused, they risked being arrested, fined and forced into unpaid labor.
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Adolf Hitler
Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis). In 1923, he was arrested and imprisoned for trying to overthrow the German government. His trial brought him fame and followers. Hitler’s goals included territorial expansion, consolidation of a racially pure state, and elimination of the European Jews and other enemies of Germany.
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1900's dresses
Women started by wearing long dresses. It was not acceptable for women to show their legs. Then the dresses became shorter and went to about the knee length. That is how it mostly stayed. Many changes to clothing occurred during this century.
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The Assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand
The Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie Duchess of Hohenberg, were killed by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo
Princip. He was a young Serbian who was a member of a group called ‘The Black Hand. They shot him and his wife wile they were driving in the Serbian capital.
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Communism
communism is an ideology of economic equality through the elimination of private property. The beliefs of communism, most famously expressed by Karl Marx, center on the idea that inequality and suffering result from capitalism. The Soviets practiced this type of
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Zimmerman Telegram
This document was a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador in Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany. It also said it would fund the war for Mexico to be able to take back land that the US had already won.
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Pearl Harbor Bombing
This bombing was on the Pearl Harbor naval base. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes flew over the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded.
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Potsdam Conference
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman gathered to decide how to administer Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier on 8 May. The goals of the conference also included the establishment of postwar order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war
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First Atomic Bombs
During the final stage of World War II, the United States exploded two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, and as a result, the war was ended.
Source: https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/bombings-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-1945 -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression”. Passed by the U.S. Congress after an alleged attack on two U.S. naval destroyers stationed off the coast of Vietnam. This effectively launched America’s full-scale involvement in the Vietnam War.
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9/11 Attack
al-Qaeda hijacked 4 airplanes to hit multiple structures on September 11. Two of the planes were flown into the twin 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. Almost 3,000 people were killed during this attack.
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/9-11-attacks
