50 Important Dates in US History

  • The US Army was established.

    George Washington was the commander and the army was made to fight Great Britain.
  • USMC established

    The USMC conducted ship to ship fighting, provided ship security, and assisted in landing forces.
  • Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence states that the colonies have the right to be free fro King George which is celebrated on July 4th.
  • Congress approves the Articles of Confederation

    Congress adopted the AoC the first constitution of the US but ratification didn't happen until March of 1781.
  • French join war against British

    France and the US signed a "Treaty of Alliance" and the British were now apart of a worldwide war.
  • The Treaty of Paris of 1783

    The end of the Revolutionary War.
  • Philadelphia Convention approves the Constitution

    The Constitution was worked on until September 17th however 3 refused to sign/ratify it.
  • George Washington becomes President of the US

    The 1st president of the US
  • The Bill of Rights becomes ratified

    Articles 3-12 were ratified by 3/4 of the states
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    The Louisiana Purchase

    The US gained the Lousiana territory from France in return for $15M which doubled the US' current size
  • Slave Trade ended

    Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
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    War with England (1812)

    The US fought against Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights
  • Telegraph Invented

    The telegraph was the telephone of the time and helped with long distant communications
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    Texas Revolution

    A rebellion of colonists from the US and Texas.
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    Battle of the Alamo

    A fight for Texas Independence
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    Trail of Tears

    After Jackson approved the Indian Removal Act he forced the Cherokee nation to give up all their land for the Europeans
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    California Gold Rush

    News began to spread that there was gold in California and over 300,000 people from around the world came for gold
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    The Civil War

    A war between the North and South about enslaved black people
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    All slaves shall be freed
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    Reconstruction

    The stage when the after the South seceded they came back to the US. The Reconstruction Era was the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
  • The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln was shot in a theatre by John Wilkes Booth
  • Civil Rights Act of 1875

    All men are created equal under the law and shouldn't be discriminated in public areas
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    Spanish American War

    A war between the US and Spain
  • The US annexes Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico

    After the Spanish gov't signed the Treaty of Paris because Cuba gained independence the treaty gave the US Guam and Puerto Rico
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    Charles Lindbergh

    Lindbergh, (born February 4, 1902, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.—died August 26, 1974, Maui, Hawaii), American aviator, one of the best-known figures in aeronautical history, remembered for the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York City to Paris, on May 20–21, 1927.
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    World War 1

    Caused by the assassination of the leader of Austria
  • The Panama Canal opens

    Connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
  • 19th Amendment

    Women=Vote
  • The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.

    Treaty of Versailles, peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919; it took force on January 10, 1920.Jan 6, 2020
  • First radio broadcast in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, which went on the air in the evening of Nov. 2, 1920, with a broadcast of the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election. The success of the KDKA broadcast and of the musical programs that were initiated thereafter motivated others to install…
  • Black Tuesday

    The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash that occurred in 1929. It started in September and ended late in October, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
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    World War 2

    World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. Wikipedia
  • Pearl Harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. Wikipedia
  • D-Day

    D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944. On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D.
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    Baby Boom

    The increase in the US population where a lot of babies were born
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    The Cold War began between the United States and the Soviet Union

    The tension between the US and Soviet Union due to different ideologies
  • Human Rights

    The UDHR adopted was adopted by the UN
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Segregation in schools is unconstitutional
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    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Wikipedia
  • Sputnik Satellite

    History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.
  • NASA Created

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1960

    The Civil Rights Act of 1960 (Pub. L. 86–449, 74 Stat. 89, enacted May 6, 1960) is a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote.
  • The assassination of JFK

  • Apollo 11

    Landed the first humans on the moon
  • Watergate

    Resulted in the end of Nixon's presidential term
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    The Korean War

    A proxy war between North Korea (Soviet Union) and South Korea (the US)
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    Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

    The buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    A concrete wall that divided Berlin from 1961-1989
  • September 11th

    Terrorist Attacks by an Islamic group