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Colonial Period
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement led by john smith and his men -
Revolution
Battle of Yorktown was the last major battle in the revolution and was led by George Washington and his men against the English -
Constitutions
James Madison(father of the constitution) wrote the Constitution in Philadelphia -
New Nation
Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the united states and during it, he bought Louisiana territory from France. -
Nationalism and sectionalism
The war of 1812 was the war between the U.S and Britain and the U.S and Canada. -
Civil War
The battle of Gettysburg was between the north and the south and it was the turning point of the civil war. The union defeated the confederates in this battle. -
Gilded age and progressive era
Andrew Carnegie opened up a steel corporation in Braddock, Pennsylvania and because the largest steel business in the word. -
Emergence of modern america
When WW1 ended, the allied powers that was created in France created the treaty of Versailles which blamed Germany for causing the war. -
WW2
On December 7th, 1941 the Japanese Navy Air service attacked pearl harbors military base in Hawaii. After the bombing this was one of the reasons why U.S. entered World War 2. President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated that December 7th, 1941 is a day that will live in infamy. After Pearl Harbor it made america afraid of Japanese immigrants in america and put them in containment camps. -
Cold War
The cold War was between the U.S and the soviet union. In the war both U.S and soviet union were threatening to drop atomic missiles at each other. -
Civil Rights
Martin Luther King was one of the greatest progressive union leaders. At Washington DC he spoke to the public with his famous "I have a dream" speech. -
Contemporary World
On September 11, 2001 the terrorist group " Al Qaeda" jumped 5 planes. Three of the planes crashed into the worlds Trade Center killing hundreds of people. In one of the planes the passengers fought back and redirected the planes course and crashed in open land in Pennsylvania. The last plane crashed in Washington DC at the pentagon. after the attack thus made Americas airports boost there security.
