US History Unit 1 Background info

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    Magna carta

    Magna carta
    The first document that limited the king's freedom, and we use it to limit our government.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    A series of British laws passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
  • Continental Congress

    Continental Congress
    A group of members that help formed the 13 colonies, which then became the United states of America.
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord
    This is the battle that started off the American revolution, it was located in the Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown
    This was the last battle of the American revolution, Cornwallis has to surrendered to George Washington as the French and American forces captured the British at Yorktown.
  • US Constitution

    US Constitution
    It made the government laws and overall rights to the citizens.
  • Civil war

    Civil war
    It was a battle between the north and south, fighting over slavery states.
  • Abraham Lincoln Assassination

    Abraham Lincoln Assassination
    Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at the Fords theater in Washington DC, by John Wilkes Booth.
  • WW1

    WW1
    Began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, it lasted until 1918. The was a lot of big events that happened during this time, like the air planes and, people forget that Hitler was a soldier during the war.
  • WW2

    WW2
    This was the deadliest war in all of war with around 70 million people killed. It started in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Lots of new stuff was created in this war, such as new weapons and equipment, and Hitler had a lot to deal with the war.