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Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock 1500's
In the Early 1600's people started to come from North Amercia, these people were called PIlgrims. Pilgirms cam for a better life and a better place to settle on. -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a time when Europe and America became industrial and urban. This was a time when there was a lot of manufacturing. It is also when many inventions were made and developed. -
Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War began in 1776 when many of the colonies proclaimed thir freedom in a witten document called the Decloration of Independence, which was written my Thomas Jefferson. The Revolutionary war was between the people of Great Britain’s thirteen North American colonies and the colonies government. -
American Revolution
The American Revolution also known as the war of Independence was fought on April 19, 1775. The conflict rose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s thirteen North American colonies and the colonial government. -
Decloration of Independence
The Decloration of Independence is a written document that proclaims the colonies freedom. The Decloration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson. -
Louisianna Purchase
The Louisianna Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France. In this deal the United States took approximately 827,000 square miles of land that was west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars. -
Civil War
The Civil War was one of America's bloodiest war's. The Civil War was the Union against the Confederate States of America. MIllions of people were injured and hundreds of thousands died in this war. -
Abraham Lincoln Assassination
John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln while at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. on Apirl, 15, 1865. This attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army effectively ending the American Civil War. -
WWI
In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife of Austria were assassinated. This lead to many threats that soon lead to the start of WWI. The War was Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (the so-called Central Powers) against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan (the Allied Powers). The United States joined the Allied powers after 1917. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was the longest-lasting economic poinnt in the history of the Western industrialized world. The Great depression in the United States, began soon after the stock market crashed in October of 1929. This led to many investors to be wiped out. Man y companies were failing which led to many people beign laid off and without employment. During this time many of the countries banks had also failed. -
WWII
World War II was the deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries and resulting in more than 50 million deaths. Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, partly started the war that would last six deadly years. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after the World War II ended. During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union had fought together agianst the axis powers, as the allies. The relationship between the two nations was a tense one. No single party was entirely in blame of the start of the cold war. -
Apollo 11
The main purpose of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy, to complete landing on the moon and return to Earth. Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969, carrying along Neil Armstrong. -
September 11, 2001 (9/11)
On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001 the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. These attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, was a time period where there was severe dust storms that damaged the ecology and agriculture of the Great plains region during the 1930s. There was little rainfall which was one cause of the Dust Bowl. Since the soil was dry the wind took the topsoil and spun it around in "Black Blizzard's".
