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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. It put limits on king and gave the nobles rights but not to peasants and it started the ideas of a democracy -
Jamestown
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas and the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America, founded on May 14, 1607. Its main use was to make money and find gold -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. This battle right here is what caused the American revolution, also it was nickname shots heard around the world -
American Revoultion
The American Revolution took place between 1765 and 1783 during which rebel colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and kicked out Great Britain, and founded the United States of America. Comander of the union was George Washington -
Shay's Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. it showed that our form of goverment is weak and need to be fixed well i think we can thank shay for shaying his way with us hehehehe -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles) by the United States from France in 1803. It doubled the size of the united states and also costed2 $15 million Louisiana Purchase, 1803. The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was lasted for two-and-a-half years. The People who fought Where the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its American Indian allies. No one Really won the war it resulted in a tie, it was important in American History Because it showed we can hold off a war between the strongest nation -
Lincoln's Election
Presidential Election of 1860. In the Presidential Election of 1860, the four candidates were Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas theses people all failed to beat lincoln and when he went into the office the south left the union -
Civil War
The war fought in the United States between northern (Union) and southern (Confederate) states from 1861 to 1865, in which the Confederacy sought to establish itself as a separate nation but failed to do so after they losed they were punished and slavery became illegal -
Lincoln's Assassination
April 14, 1865. Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. they ended any chances of peaceful reconstrucing the south
