Event Date: Event Title: Event Description:
1st Sep, 1493
Cattle Spanish bring cattle to the U.S.
27th Sep, 1600 North America "Land of Opportunity" Settlers left Europe to find new land, and new opportunities and freedoms.
5th May, 1607 Jamestown The city of Jamestown was built in May of 1607.
25th Mar, 1617 Tobacco Tobacco was Americas largest export. Although it was illegal the new settlers did it cause it brought in alot of money.
27th Aug, 1620 Spanish Controls Trade In the 1600's the Spanish controled most of the worldwide trade.
5th Apr, 1621 Mayflower heads home Mayflower left the new lands on April 5th 1621.
5th Jun, 1621 Rough Start Three months after the Mayflower set sail back to Europe, more than half of the pilgrams had died from hunger, exhaustion, or diseas.
7th Aug, 1760 Redcoats In 1645 the King of England sent his Redcoat soldiers to America to gain control.
14th May, 1761 Boston Newspaper Boston, had the first Newspaper.
1st Sep, 1765 Too much Red In September of 1627 there were many Redcoats in America. For every 1 Redcoat there was 4 Americans.
5th Mar, 1770 Boston Massacre Where 5 Redcoats try to hold of an angry mob, Four died on the spot and a fifth died after four days. Six others were wounded.
5th Mar, 1770 Crispis Attics Crispis Attics, a slave, was the firs person to Die at the Boston Massacre and the word was quickly spread throughout the world.
6th Mar, 1770 Paul Revere Paul Revere mad the front page, of the Boston Newspaper, about the Boston Massacre and he titles it "The Bloody Massacre"
16th Dec, 1773 Boston Tea party December 16th 1773, a group of about 200 men went to the Boton harbor and dumped ever case/box of tea into the boston harbor. They called it the Boston Tea Party .
4th Oct, 1775 Daniell Boone Boone crosses into Shawnee territory
2nd Jan, 1776 New York By Janurary 1776 there where about 20,000 people in New York
30th Jun, 1776 British are coming Around June 30th 1776 there were around 3,000 British Battlships packed with Redcoats, and ready to take over the New Land
4th Jul, 1776 Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776 the Declaration of independence was signed
12th Jul, 1776 Open FIre July 12 1776 two of the thousands of ships opened fire on New York city , it was the larges attack on New York untill Septeber 11, 2001.
28th Sep, 1777 New Fighing tactics Now America has the native american and their fighting stradegies on their side. Instead of going up against the best army in the world, they will simply just sneak attack them opening up a whole new was of war
30th Sep, 1778 TAXED By 1778 The british had New York under control and they taxed everything,and by this time food prices were up 800%
28th Sep, 1781 Bgining of the Battle of Yorktown This was the start of The Battle of Yorktown ..
19th Oct, 1781 Battle of Yorktown Ends Battle of Yorktown ends with America victorious
30th Apr, 1789 First President General George Washington was named Americas first president
4th Mar, 1794 Cotton Gin The Cotton Gin was invented (helpped increase the speed of producing cotton.)
1st Apr, 1803 Louisanna Purchase Thomas Jefferson baught 1/2 billion acres for 3 cents an acre
1st May, 1804 Lewis and Clarck Lewis and Clark map the new country.
3rd Sep, 1805 Sacajawea Sacajawea saved Boone and his men by showing them ways through the land and leading them to food, water, and shelter.
10th Oct, 1817 Erie Canal Erie Canal is the Biggest man construction project and is 300 miles long.
4th Oct, 1818 Milk Sickness In 1818 families where dying from Cow milk
10th Mar, 1821 Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman risked her life to help free slaves by leading them and the "Underground Railroad"
7th Oct, 1823 Hunters Hunters and trappers start to catch beavers, they sell for alotback in Eurrope, because in Europe there not many left.
15th Oct, 1823 Rockies Thousands of trappers start trapping in the rockies.
6th Feb, 1825 Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revoulution was the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation.
5th Jun, 1825 North and South In 1825 the South had an economy set on cotton, and the North was set on industry.
26th Oct, 1825 Erie Canal Opens The Erie Canal opens for the first time on October 2, 1825
1st Jun, 1830 Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson forces Indians into reservations.
10th Jul, 1830 Worlds Cotton By the summer of 1830 the South owned 1/2 of the worlds cotton.
5th Mar, 1836 Alamo Alimo was where American settlers where getting into Mexican land and a Spanish group killed all but wo Texan defenders and were told to send a message to the rest of the settlers to stay out, but the message they remembered was remember the Alimo.
27th Apr, 1836 Morse Code Morse code was invented on april 27 1836 by Samuel Morse.
7th Aug, 1840 Millionaire The Word Millionaire was invented, because of people having millions of dollars.
5th May, 1841 GOLD RUSH Miners from all over came here to get gold , but problems started when some miners where finding alot and others finding none.
24th Sep, 1841 Slaves It hit ground zero for the slave trade in 1941, because of 1/2 a million slaves were traded like animals.
18th May, 1846 Headin West May 1846 thousands of settlers started heading west in search of new lands
1st Jun, 1846 Wagon Trail Wagontail had begun with George Doner leading the way.
4th Dec, 1846 Tough Times Due to being stuck in the middle of nowhere in the snow, and family had already eatin the cattle. The family had no choice but Kanablism.
2nd Dec, 1849 John Brown Death John Brown is put to Death by the state of Virginia, because of treason and murder.
18th Jun, 1850 South in Control By the summer of 1850 te South had control of 3/4 of the worlds cotton.
16th Nov, 1854 Oil 1854 Scientists discover oil
18th Jun, 1859 Red Cross Clare barton invented the red cross in 1859.
1st Oct, 1859 John Brown John Brown planned to attack the South and lead a slave rebellion.
1st May, 1860 Abe Lincoln Abe Lincoln On May 1 1860 Abe Lincoln was elected our 16th president
7th Feb, 1861 Confederates Confederate States Formed
8th Apr, 1861 CIVIL WAR The civil war begins (5 weeks after Lincoln elected president)
12th Apr, 1861 Civil War Begins The Civil War Began on April 12th 1861
21st Jul, 1861 Bullrun The Battle of Bullrun lost more men than any other battle
12th Apr, 1862 North vs. South Civil war at its hight North vs. South bringing more deaths than ever seen, and by 1863 lost 2% of population.
18th Oct, 1862 Death status By may of 1862 17,000 had been killed in the civil war
1st Jun, 1863 Slavery Slavery was abolished on June 1st 1863
18th Jul, 1863 African American Soldier IN july of 1863 more than half of the slaves that where freed joined the North in the civil war.
10th May, 1865 Civil WAR Ends The Civil war Ended on May 10th 1865
5th Jun, 1865 Where the Buffalo Roam In the summer of 1865 there where 3 million Buffalo that roamed the west
15th Aug, 1865 Statue of Liberty It took donations from all over America, 120,000, to assemble the statue of liberty
18th Sep, 1865 Lady Liberty It took 25 years for Lady Liberty to oxidize and turn green.
9th Apr, 1868 Railroads go West 1868 The railroad extend west.
3rd Aug, 1868 Teddy Blue Teddy Blue is 1 of about 20,000 cowboys in the west.
8th Jun, 1872 Andrew Carnagy Andrew Carnagy developed a new way to make steel
4th May, 1873 Barbwire Barbwire was invented in 1873
17th Jun, 1874 Locust 3 Trilion Locus terrorised the west by eatin every bit of crop, people called this the Locust Plague
7th Jul, 1875 Buffalo Slodder 30 million Buffalo killed in 10 years
1st Aug, 1875 New Stoves Carnagey created massive stoves that helpped mass produce steel
27th Jan, 1880 Thomas Edison and the Lightbulb Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879 and had it patened in 1880.
15th Dec, 1890 Crime and Poverty Crime and poverty is at its height in 1890
4th Nov, 1892 Lumber In 1892 2 million ft of lumber will be cut in Nebraska alone.
10th Jan, 1901 Hamil Brothers The Hamil Brothers strike oil in Texas creating an ecinomic Boom.
23rd Apr, 1901 Texaco Texaco was invented after the discovery of oil in Texas.
22nd Jul, 1902 air conditioning air conditioners where invented in 1902
21st Jul, 1907 Sewer systems major cities have sewer systems
19th Aug, 1908 Henry Ford Model T Henry Ford invented the Model T which was the first automobile.
16th May, 1909 Sewers Every city in America has a sewer system
29th Mar, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was the worst work disaster untill September 11 2001.
11th Dec, 1913 Assembly line Henry ford creates the assembly line in 1913, helps mass produce items.
25th Jun, 1915 Rosco Sheler Rosco Sheler is the first car salesmen
16th Jun, 1919 Red Summer Red summer were race riots that exploded in a number of cities in both the North and South.
5th Aug, 1919 Muscle Cars The 1st muscle cars where created in The late summer of 1919
20th Jan, 1920 Boomtime the 1920's where a big Boomtime in America
8th Mar, 1920 Hollywood 800 Films produced in L.A./ Hollywood
17th Oct, 1924 Affordable Model T Model T was made affordable to Americans.
13th Jul, 1929 Start of Great Depression Stock Market Crash was the begining of a National Depression.
16th Dec, 1929 Credit 6 Billion dollars were spent in credit
19th Dec, 1930 Bank of United States Bank wouldnt give out any loans
4th Mar, 1931 Hoover Dam Construction on the worlds largest dam, the Hoover Dam, had begun on march 4th 1931
17th Nov, 1933 Loosing banks In 1933 there where 38 states that didnt have a single bank.
17th Nov, 1934 Dust Bowl In 1934 the midwest was getting pounded with dust storms.
11th Mar, 1935 Radios Radios linked America together in 1935
14th Apr, 1935 Dust Storm On April 14th 1935, the biggest dust storm in American history hit America.
30th Sep, 1935 Hoover Dam is Complete The Hoover dam was finished on september 30th 1935 2 years ahead of schedule.
23rd Nov, 1940 Hugee Computer In 1940 the only computer available was the size of a Greyhound bus
6th Mar, 1941 Mt. Rushmore Mt. Rushmore was created and became the worlds biggest monument.
22nd Sep, 1943 African Americans in WWII 1 million african american soldiers were in WWII/
15th Apr, 1945 Cold War Cold war got its name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other directly.
13th Sep, 1945 Manhaten Project The Manhaten Project, that lead the Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki, was started in
20th Apr, 1946 Baby Boomber 1 baby every 10 seconds.
18th Sep, 1946 American Automobile 2 million cars are in America
21st Aug, 1959 Missle Technology America had its first intercontinental missile in 1959.
19th Nov, 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr Martin Luther King Jr. lead thousands of black men and women to the Washington monument and gave hit "I Have a Dream" speech.
30th Apr, 1969 E-mail First E-mail ever sent in 1969
20th Jul, 1969 1st Man on the Moon Neil Armstrong was the 1st man on the moon, and he was from the United States.
22nd Nov, 1969 Woodstock Woodstock was the music event of the decade and to this day the single most profound event in the history of music
23rd Nov, 1974 NIxon Nixon was the first president to resign from office
25th Oct, 1975 Vietnam War ends The Vietnam war ended in October of 1975.
25th May, 1976 The PC The first PC wasinvented in 1976
26th Aug, 1980 Credit Credit was cheap and everyone used it in the 1980s
27th Jan, 1986 Challenger Explodes On Janurary 27 1986 the Challanger Exploded a few seconds after lift off kill 7 people including a school teacher
15th May, 1986 NASA NASA had one of its buisiest years in 1986
7th Aug, 1989 Credit boom More people have Credit cards than who vote
17th Aug, 1989 Cold War Over The coldwar ended in 1989
22nd Dec, 2000 .COM BOOM All of the United States started rapidly buying and useing computers.
11th Sep, 2001 Terrorist Attacks On Seprtember 11, 2001 2 planes hit the World Trade Center and 1 hit the pentagon and one, that believedto be headed to the whitehouse, hit a field in Pennsalviania.
23rd Nov, 2010 Teleagraph like he Telephone Telegraph connects the country to each other, like cell phones do today
