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Aug 3, 1492
The Discovery of America by Columbus
Christopher Columbus founded America 1492. Columbus took his three ships ,the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492. His goal was to sail west until he reached Asia where the riches of gold, pearls and spice awaited. -
The Settlement of Jamestown
Jamestown settlement in the small town in Virginia was the first and only english settlement in america. William Kelso wrote Jamestown is where the British Empire began. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson and used by the Second Continental Congress states the reasons the British colonies of North America pleaded independence in July of 1776. -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War dispute the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years War of 1756–63. It broke apart the colonies of British America against the people in New France. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest held by the Sons of Liberty in Boston Massachusetts on December 16, 1773. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
First Revolutionary Battle at Lexington and Concord was held In April 1775, when British troops are sent to take colonial weapons, they run into an inexperienced and angry group of people. -
The Battle of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown also known as the Battle of Yorktown the Surrender at Yorktown German Battle or the Siege of Little York which ended on October 19, 1781 -
The Constitutional Convention
On May 25, 1787, 55 delegates representing every state but Rhode Island met at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia now known as Independence Hall. people you may know include George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. -
The invention of the cotton gin
In 1794 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine that changed the production of cotton by speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton and making the production a lot quicker. -
The Alien and Sedition Acts
law created by President John Adams in 1798, the Alien and Sedition Acts summed up of four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was an assumption of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for a total of sixty-eight million francs. -
The War of 1812
a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom -
The Missouri Compromise
an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Andrew Jackson’s Election
The United States presidential election of 1828 was the 11th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 31, to Tuesday, December 2, 1828. -
The invention of the telegraph
The electrical telegraph or also known as the telegraph took over all types of telegraph systems and becoming the first form of electrical telecommunications. In a matter of decades after their creation in the 1830s, electrical telegraph networks permitted people and commerce to transmit messages across both continents and oceans almost instantly, with widespread social and economic impacts. -
The Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native Americans form their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that were supposed to be held for themselves but the president of The United States, Andrew Jackson, felt that it was ment for the white people so the natives were removed. -
The Panic of 1837
The Panic of 1837 was a mini great depression in witch the U.S saw a economic fall that sent values and prices down and unemployment up. -
The Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between Mexico and The United Sates and the outcome was an American victory gaining the area of texas and ending most of their feud's -
The Compromise of 1850
an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. -
The Battle of 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
Proclamation 95 was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
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 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
known as the Civil War Amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves. -
Battle of Appomattox Court House
It was the final engagement of Confederate States Army general Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army / Army of the Potomac under Lt. Gen. and General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant. Lee, having abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, after the ten-month Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, retreated west, hoping to join his army with the remaining Confederate forces in North Carolina of the Army of Tennessee. -
Civil War
The Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The result of a long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in south carolina -
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
on April 14th,1865 president abraham lincon was assasinated by john wilkes booth in the Fords theater -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley, but resigned from that post to lead the Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War. -
The Pullman and Homestead Strikes
homestead and pullman strikes homestead strike The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the town of Homestead -
The Spanish-American War
a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. -
The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane
The electronic light bulb was created by 3 people most notable was Thomas Edison. The Telephone was invented by Alexander Bell. The airplane was invented by the Wright brothers. -
The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller as a corporation in Ohio,
