important events in U.S. history

By chrisssss

  • plymouth rock

  • Establishment of original 13 colonies in America

  • the American Revolution

  • the American Revolution

  • declaration of independence

  • annexing Texas

  • Californian Gold Rush

    many colonist went to the gold rush for two things land and gold

  • US purchases Alaska from Russia

    it widened the us by 10 opercent

  • cold war

  • Assassination of president John F Kennedy

    President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.

  • marther luther king jr.

    Thousands of marchers, led by Martin Luther King Jr. and protected by federal troops, completed the first leg of the Selma-to-Montgomery March, which forced the landmark Voting Rights Bill and changed the political landscape of the South, leading, among other things, to the election of two White Southern presidents.

  • Assassination

    Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn.,

  • 911

    was an terrosristr attack

  • Opening up of the West.

  • The Granting of Freedom to the Slaves

  • Drafting of the Constitution

  • Collapse of the Stock Market - Black Friday October 1929. Start of Great Depression

  • Roger Smith finds Religious tolerant colony in Rhode Island

  • Roger Smith finds Religious tolerant colony in Rhode Island

  • Atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • James Polk's policy of Manifest Destiny

  • Mass Immigration to the country in the late 19th and early 20th century

  • Drafting of the Constitution

  • First manned landing on the Moon