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  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    who- Colonists sent by Queen Elizabeth
    where- North America
    what- The first permanent English settlement

  • Revolution

    Revolution
    who- Thomas Paine
    where- United states
    what- He is famous for writing "Common Sense",This book supported independence from Great Britain

  • Constitutions

    Constitutions
    who- George Washington and James Madison
    where- Philadelphia
    what- The constitution was written because the United States needed independence from Great Britain

  • New Nations

    who- Thomas Jefferson
    where- Louisiana Territory
    what-Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between USA & France. The United States gained 828,000 square miles of land for 15 Million dollars

  • Nationalism & Sectionalism

    who- James Monroe
    where- United States
    what- The Monroe Doctrine warns European nations that the United States will no longer tolerate colonization

  • Civil War

    Civil War
    who- Abraham Lincoln
    where- Fort Sumter, South Carolina
    what- The Confederate States bombed the United States and we fired back

  • Gilded Age & Progressive Era

    who- John D. Rockefeller
    where- Ohio
    what- His company Standard Oil refined 90% of America's oil within 15 years

  • Emergence of Modern America

    who- W.E.B DuBois
    where- New York
    what- The N.A.A.C.P was a group that wanted to abolish slavery and gain civil rights

  • World War II

    World War II
    who- Adolf Hitler
    where- Poland
    what- Hitler invaded Poland to get more land so he can be the leader of Europe

  • Cold War

    Cold War
    who- Joseph Stalin
    where- Soviet Union
    what- he's a communist he turned Russia from peasant society to an industrial

  • Contemporary World

    what- The Warsaw pact put the Soviet Union in charge of their army's
    where- Soviet Union or USSR

  • Civil Rights

    Civil Rights
    who- Martin Luther King
    where- Washington, Dc
    what-The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, It got rid of segregation in public schools

  • MLA

    Historic Jamestowne, historicjamestowne.org/. Editors, History.com. “World War II.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 29 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history. https://medium.com/political-arenas/what-if-the-confederates-had-won-the-american-civil-war-80b608f19335