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Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock 1500's
Plymouth Colony was established by English Separatist Puritans in December 1620. The Pilgrims left England to seek religious freedom and simply to find a better life. They set sail from Plymouth, England, on Sept. 16, 1620 aboard the mayflower. The Pilgrims finally landed at present-day Plymouth, on Dec. 26, 1620. -
Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War began in 1775. The United states won the war agaisnt Great Britian in 1783 and became a new nation. The war influenced new ideas. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Indepence was written by Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration said why they were seeking independence. -
Louisiana Purchase
President Jefferson bought Louisiana. Louisiana was a large territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, from France. The Louisianna Purrchase doubled the size of the U.S. -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries. The Industrial Revolution was a period during which mainly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban. -
Civil War
Some Americans wanted to end slavery. The country split into the Northern free states and Southern slave states. The North defeated the South in 1865. -
Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln died the next day.The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, ending the American Civil War. -
WW1
World War 1 started in Europe. Most Americans wanted to stay out of the fighting. Then Germany sank a number of ships, killing U.S. civillians. The United States joined the war in 1917 and help the Allies win it. -
Great Depression
In 1929, stock prices droped, and many people lost their money. That began the Great Depression, a period of economic decline in the United states. Millions of people were oit of work, and businesses failed. The Great Depression went to the early 1940s. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region that suffered drought in 1930s. The Great Plainesl had little rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination. -
WWII
The Second World War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history. World War II involving more than 30 countries. There were more than 50 million deaths. World War II was sparked by Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939. The war would went on for six years until the final Allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945. -
Cold War
The Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted lasted for the second half of the 20th century resulted in shared suspicions, increased tensions and a series of international incidents that brought the world to disaster. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is the 35th president of the United States. Less than an hour after Kennedy was shot, Oswald killed a policeman who questioned him on the street near his rooming house in Dallas. Thirty minutes later, Oswald was arrested in a movie theater by police responding to reports of a suspect. He was charged on November 23 for the murders of President Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit. -
Apollo 11
At 10:56 p.m. EDT Armstong is the first person to plant a human foot on another world (moon). Armstrong climbs down the ladder and proclaims: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." -
September 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001, terrorists flew airplanes into the Word Trade Center in New York City and into the Pentagon. Approximately 3,000 people died. The U.S. government respoded by launching a war agaisnt terrorism.
