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The Discovery of America by Columbus
Columbus led three ships out of the Spanish Port of Palos on August 3, 1492. He planned to sail to Asia to collect there riches. The first stop they made was at the Canary Islands then sailed to the New World and found it October 11,1492 -
The Settlement of Jamestown
On December 6, 1606, the journey to Virginia began on three ships.On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. -
The French and Indian War
The french and Indian war lasted from 1756 to 1763. In 1756 the British formally declared war. The British turned the tide with victories at Louisbourg, Fort Frontenac. There were many failed attacks planned on the French. France ceded Great Britain and its territory in the Mississippi. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party Started on December 16, 1773. The TeaAct allowed the British East India company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes while other people had to pay taxes. As the ships arrived at the Boston Harbor People board the ships and threw out of the Tea that was being shipped there. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775. This battle started the American Revolutionary War. This war was between America And the British. On April 18, 1775, British soldiers Marched from Boston to a Concord to seize an arms cache. -
The Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. -
The Battle of Yorktown
American force and French troops laid seige to the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia. George Washington and French General Comte de Rochambeau led them, they began their final attack on October 14th, capturing two British defenses and leading to the surrender. -
The Constitutional Convention
Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. -
The invention of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
The Alien and Sedition Acts
A series of laws known as the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
The War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and the United Kingdom. The British tried to restrict the U.S's trading and started a War. -
The Missouri Compromise
In the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery the U.S. Congress and across the country as the country started to get more angry they request for admission to the Union as a slave state. -
Andrew Jackson’s Election
The United states held a presidential election of 1828 was the 11th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 31, to Tuesday, December 2, 1828. -
The Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was a couple of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States, as areas to the west that had been designated as Indian Territory -
The Panic of 1837
The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that killed a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. -
The invention of the telegraph
In the 1840s the telegraph was created by Samuel Morse and the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. -
The Mexican-American War
Mexican War in the United States and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848 -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on slavery. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
The Appomattox Campaign was a series of American Civil War battles fought March 29 – April 9, 1865 in Virginia that concluded with the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. -
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. -
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Theses Amendments are known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, they were designed to ensure the equality for recently emancipated slaves. -
The Firing on Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
he Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 -
The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
The Standard Oil Trust was formed in 1863 by John D. Rockefeller. He built the company through 1868 to become the largest oil refinery firm in the world. -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
On February 24, 1868 three days after Johnson's dismissal of Stanton, the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 in favor of a resolution to impeach the President for high crimes and misdemeanors -
The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane
The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, was born in Scotland in 1847, the same year as Thomas Edison. ... In 1874 he developed the idea for the telephone and successfully created two years later. -
The Pullman and Homestead Strikes
The Homestead strike, also known as the Homestead Steel strike, Pinkerton rebellion, or Homestead massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. -
The Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to US intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was a writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
