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When the Mayflower arrived on the land for the first time, Plymouth Rock was the first place that they came to.
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The Idustrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing in 1760 and ended about 1820
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To protest British Parliament's unfair tax on tea. They dumped the tea into the boston harbor.
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In 1775, The Revolutionary War began. The colonies proclaimed their freedom in the Declaration of Independence, wriiten by Thomas Jefferson. It ended in 1783
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Thomas jefferson wrote the declaration that stated that the 13 American colonies were no longer a part of the British Empire.
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The Liberty Bell was rung to announce the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Philidelphia.
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When the President ( Thomas Jefferson ) bought the Louisiana territory from France.
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A conflict between the North and South over slavery.
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On 28 June, in Sarajevo, Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the killing and because Europe was linked by a series of alliances Austria-Hungary, Germany,Italy and Britain, France, Russia .The affair escalated into a full war.
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A period of economic deline in the United States.
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During World War 1, farmers plowed up the Great Plains to plant crops. When the drought hit, crops died.
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The war in Europe began on September 1, 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, and concluded on September 2, 1945, with the official surrender of the last Axis nation, Japan.
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The Cold War was a long period of tension between the democracies of the Western World and the communist countries of Eastern Europe.
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Rosa Parks did not give up her seat to a white person to protest racism.
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Our country was attacked by terrorists and killed many people in the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
