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The Declaration of Independence was signed
The Declaration of Independence is a document created by congress on July 4th, 1776. It created 13 colonies in the US which would become its own nation away from Great Britian. -
Signing of the Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. The constitution created our government. It made sure that not jut one person shall rule over everyone. It created 3 bracnhes that has equal powers. -
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Lewis and Clark explore the West
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Lewis and Clark explore the West
In 1803, Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark out West to explore the Loisiana Purchase. The journay lasted from May 1804 to Septmeber 1806. There goal was to find land and take it before Britian did. Lewis and Clark did one of the most important jounary for America. This jounary gave America new land for farming, new land for settling, and just for people who want to travel out West. -
The California Gold Rush
The California gold rush began on January 24, 1848 because James W. Marshall found gold in California. Word spread thoughout the country and some people from the East of America traveled out West in search of gold. Then word speard around the world and people from all differnet counries came to find gold. California then became one of America's richest states. Without the California gold rush, population would not have speard West as quicky as it did in 1849. -
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World War 1
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World War 1
World War I also known as the First World War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were killed in one of the largest wars in history. -
World War 2
World War 2 was known as the second world war. It was a global war that lasted from 1939 10 1945 -
Vietnam War
The Vietman War known as the Second Indochina War, lasted from November 1, 1955- April 3, 1975. Estimates of the number of Vietnamese service members and civilians killed vary from 800,000 to 3.1 million. Some 200,000–300,000 Cambodians, 20,000–200,000 Laotians, and 58,220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict. -
I was born
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9/11
On September 11, 2001 there were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. In total, almost 3,000 people died in the attacks, including the 227 civilians and 19 hijackers aboard the four planes. It also was the deadliest incident for firefighters in the history of the United States.
