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French-Indian War
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American Revolution
Date: April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783 -
Colonial America
List of colonies: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island -
Declaration of Independence
Date: July 4, 1776
Author: Thomas Jefferson
3 rights: All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
Purpose: America's Declaration of Independence was to explain to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain. -
Constitutional Convention
Dates: May 25 - September 17, 1787
What happened at the event: Five states called for a constitutional convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation.
Oldest member present: Benjamin Franklin -
Louisiana Purchase
Date April 30, 1803 -
Women’s rights movements
Dates: July 13, 1848 - 1920
Leaders: Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony.
what did they want?: Enfranchising all American women declaring for the first time that they would vote, like men. Women deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship like men. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Date: Jan. 1, 1863
What did it do?: Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. -
Civil War
Date: Apirl 12, 1861 May 9, 1865
President: Abraham Lincoln
Reason: Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. The war ended in Spring, 1865. -
Spanish-American War
Date:April 25, 1898 - Dec. 10, 1898 -
World War I
Dates: July 28, 1914 - Nov. 11, 1918
Who was president?: Woodrow Wilson -
Great Depression
Dates: Oct. 29, 1929 - 1939
President: Herbert Hoover -
World War II
Dates: Sep. 1, 1939 - Sep. 2, 1945
who did the US fight against:
Axis power = Germany, Italy and Japan.
Allies power = Britain, France, Russia, and the United States.
President: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Generals: Eisenhower, General Patton, George Marshall, John J Pershing, Omar Bradley, Theodore Roosevelt Jr, Hitler. -
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Cold War
Date: 1947 - 1991
Main concern: the Soviet Union would obtain control of the Western European countries. -
Civil Rights Movement
Date: Dec. 1, 1955 - between 1955 - 1968
Key leaders: Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Andrew Goodman and others. They risked and sometimes lost their lives in the name of freedom and equality.
Purpose: The Civil Right ovement purpose was to everyone to be equal because Afican-American were not being treated equal. -
9/11/01
What happended: Terrorists attacked the Unites States. The terrorists flew two of the planes into two skyscrapers at the World Trade Center in New York City.
