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Ferdinand Magellan, is known as the first sea captain to sail around the world, with five other ships, but, only one ship returned. He wasn't in the ship.
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Our first president of the United staed, laid the cornerstone in the capitol building. ( George Washington )
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Captain Oliver Perry defeated the British navy. Britain's history that one of its fleets had surrendered. Helped the U.S.
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Tecumseh. Great leader of the Sawnee Indians, died in battle. He wanted to drive the white settlers from the lands that belonged to the the Indians.
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National anthem of the United States. Written by Francis Scott Key.
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He became the first President of the Republic of Texas.
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He was famous for being a outlaw bank and train robber, and cold blooded killer.
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Looking for the carrier of the disease called 'Yellow Fever'.
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She helped the poor. Because of her new laws were passed to help workers, women and children.
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Was put in charge of the American army. His job was to organize all American forces and to get his soldiers trained. After the war, he was giving the higest rank of any American army offiicer. Got a rank for the General of the Armies of the United States.
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He invented Basketball.The only major sport that can be called truly American. It is only major sport that was developed in the United States. Not even baseball can be called truly American.
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He is famous for writting short stories.
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One of the great unsolved mysteries of all time.
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Killed at a railroad in Washington D.C. Was shot.
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Best painter in 1900's and also a great sculptor.
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A famous gunfight took place in Tombstone AZ. The gunfight was between Earp brothers, their friend Doc Holliday and a band of outlaws.
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She was a very unhappy women, yeah she was very wealthy but she didnt like the way her mother felt about her. She was not a pretty child, her mother on the other hand was very beautiful. Eleanor was an embarrassment to her mother.
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Invented the Kodak. Recieved a patent for the first roll-film camera.
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Became the 41st state. Only the states of Alaska, Texas, and California are larger than Montana. It is nicknamed the treasure State. Cause of the valuable minerals such as gold, silver, and copper.
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Frank Duryea and his brother Charles built the first successful American-made, gasoline powered automobile.
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The victim of the crash was thomas Selfridge. A lieutenant in the U.S Signal Corps.
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Calbraith Rodgers landed his airplane in Pasadena, California, and became the first person to fly across the united states.
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Considered the fastest human.
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President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button in his White House office and caused an explosion 4,000 miles away. The blast 1,600 pounds of dynamite helped clear a mass of earth and rock so workers in panama could continue building the Panama canal. The canal is very important because it lets ships travel between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
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An American soldier single-handedly captured an entire battalion of German soldiers. Became famous as a Sergeant York.
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Eight Chicago White Sox players became known as the ''Black Sox''. They took money from gamblers to le t the reds win the series.
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The 39th President of the United States.
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Creator of the muppets. Created them for television.
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The purpose of the United Nations is to work for world peace.
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Leading character in the comic strip ''Peanuts''.
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The Russians sent into space a manmade satellite named Sputnik 1. This marked the beginning of the space age.
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The earth shook under a small mining town in Canada. When the earth stopped shaking, 24 miners were found dead. After the count, they leaned that 69 men were trapped 4,000 feet below ground. They found 19 more the next week, they thought it was a miracle that they survived.
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First presidential election debate.
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His report was released to people, of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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America lost a great song writer named Woody Guthrie. He wrote songs about the poor people and the world in which they lived.
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First woman to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.
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500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovery of a strange new land. The new land Columbus discovered later became America.
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many people believe that Ericson was the first person to discover America nearly 500 years before Columbus.
