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A war between America and the British. -
Declaration of Independence, in U.S. history, a document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. -
The fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world. The oldest written national constitution in use. -
Encompassed 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. -
The Civil War was a war between the Union (Northern US States) and the Confederacy (Southern US States) lasting from 1861-1865. The reasons for the Civil War were disagreements over slavery, states vs. federal rights, the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the economy. -
At Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. on the evening of April 14, 1865. Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning. -
Alexander Graham Bell successfully received a patent for the telephone and secured the rights to the discovery. Days later, he made the first ever telephone call to his partner, Thomas Watson. -
Thomas Alva Edison and his team finally “perfected” the incandescent light bulb. -
Wilbur and Orville Wright spent four years of research and development to create the first successful powered airplane, the 1903 Wright Flyer. It first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. -
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world. It became evident after a sharp decline in stock prices in the United States.
1929 - 1939 (or 1941). -
World War two was caused by Hitler trying to invade Poland. Making the war last until 9/1/1939 to 9/2/1945.
During it the US and France helped Britain. -
When Japan attacked Hawaii. -
Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. Codenamed Operation 'Overlord', the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy marked the start of a long and costly campaign to liberate north-west Europe from Nazi occupation. -
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. -
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist suicide terrorist attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda against the United States on September 11, 2001.