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Timeline #1
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John Smith founds the Jamestown Colony in modern-day Virginia
Jamestown, Virginia
First permanent English settlement in the Americas
Mortality was very high due to disease and starvation (over 80% perish)
Captain John Smith was the leader of the Jamestown colony.
Colonists went to the expedition and attacked by Native Americans.
First group failed and a new group of settlers and supplies in 1610. Tobacco became Virginia's first profitable export. -
French and Indian War Begins
Also called Seven Years' War, French and Indian War inspires North Ameria colonies about formaing the own nation and get free from the Britain.
When France's expansion into the Ohio River Vally brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756.
The British received Canada from Fance and Florida form Spain. This strenghened the American colonies significantly by removing their Euripean rivals -
American Revolutionary War Begins
American Revolutionary War arose from growing tensions between residents of Britain's 13 North American colonies and the colonial government. On July 4, the Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence. Battle of Saratoga and the battle at the Chesapeake bay lead the war to the triumph of North American colonies. French also helped American Colonies. The United States is now an actual nation. -
George Washington becomes the first president
69 members of Congress cast their ballots to elect George Washinton the first president of the United States. George Washington is the only president in American history to be elected by unanimous approval.
When he started his presidency, there was nothing established in his office. He had to create the American presidency from scratch and need to make the presidency powerful enough to function but not toward monarchy or dictatorship -
The French Revolution begins
The French Revolution was a watershed event in modern European history that began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte. The French Revolution played a critical role in shaping modern nations by showing the word the power inherent in the will of the people. Amerian Revolutionary war inspires the French Revolution -
The industrial Revolution transforms Great Britain
The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britiain in the late 18th century because of the country's large labour supply, plentiful natural resources, and overseas markets for manufactured good. This fundimentally changed the every part of industry and this affect other countrys to be industrialized -
Louisiana Purchases
Louisiana Purchase brought into the United States about 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby double the size of the young republic. The U.S paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs which is equivalent to $15milion at that time. Louisiana Purchase is Jefferson's most notable achievements as president. Also, this provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion. -
The War of 1812
Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy's impressment of American seamen and America's desire to expand its territory.
Washington D.C also burnt down.
American troops won Battles in New York, Baltimore, and New Orlands and this boosted national confidence and fostering a new spirit of patriotism. The ratification of the Treaty of Ghent on February 17, 1815, ended the war. -
The Great Potato Famine starts in Ireland
Many people in Ireland highly relied on potato crop for most of their nutrition. A disease called 'late blight' and unusual cool, moist weather destroyed potato crops. With Great Potato Famine and inadequate British government's effort to relieve the famine lead About 1 million people died, and perhaps 2 million more eventually emigrated from the country. During the Great Famine, lots of Irish flowed into the U.S. -
American Civil War Begins
The Civil War started because of sectional tension between the free state and slave state over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states.
Seven slave states in the South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America.
The Union win and slavery is abolished completely in the U.S.
The Civil War determined what kind of nation U.S. would be. -
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Fifteenth Amendment Ratified
The 15th Amendment granted African-American men the right to vote.
During the Reconstruction era, following the American Civil War, the Republican-dominated U.S. Congress passed the First Reconstruction Act. The act outlined how new governments based on universal manhood suffrage were to be established. However, even though the 15th Amendment is ratified, various discriminatory practices and outright violence were used to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote. -
The Wright Brothers Made the First Controlled Airplane Flight.
Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the successful flight in the history of a self-propelled aircraft. The plane was the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane. It stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight.
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World War I Started
World War began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand(Austro-Hungarian Empire). The Central Power (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), fought against the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan, and the US). Tensions had been brewing throughout Europe-especially in the Balkan region-for years before World War I broke out. After the assassination Austria-Hungary allied with Germany and declared war on Serbia. -
Russian Revolution of 1917
Most Russians had lost faith in the failed leadership of the czar.
During February Revolution, demonstrators clamoring for bread. The leader of the capitalistic provisional government, including lawyer Alexander Kerensky, established a liberal program of rights.
On Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin called for a Soviet government that would be ruled directly by councils of soldiers, peasants, and workers. It was nearly bloodless coup d’état against the Duma’s provisional government. -
World War I End
On the Second Battle of the Marne, Germany defeated with massive casualties, and this battle turned the tide of war towards the Allies. Truks signed a treaty with the Allies in late October 1918. Austria-Hungary reached an armistice on November 4. German was finally forced to seek an armistice on November 11, 1918, ending WWI. The political disruption surrounding WWI contributed to the fall of four imperial dynasties-Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Turkey. Women's social status increased -
Nineteenth Amendment Ratified
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote.
Women's rights movement to earn suffrage started before the Civil War. In 1848, the movement for women's rights launched on a national level with the Seneca Falls Convention. Following the convention, the demand for the vote became a centerpiece of the women's rights movement.
On November 2, 1920, more than 8 million women across the U.S. voted in elections for the first time. -
Stock Market Crash of 1929
During the 1920s, the U.S. stock market underwent rapid expansion. Production declined, and unemployment had risen, leaving stocks in great excess of their real value. Other causes of the market crash were low wages, the proliferation of debt, a struggling agricultural sector and an excess of bank loans. Billions of dollars were lost. This was one of the major cause to lead the U.S and other Western industrialized nations into the Great Depression. -
World War II started
Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist gain support from people of economically and politically unstable Germany. Resentment over the harsh terms imposed by the Treaty of Versailles fueled the rise of Adolf Hitler. Hitler and his party rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan. In September 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, and this invasion drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. This was the being of WWII. -
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United States drops two nuclear weapons on Japan (for Timeline #3)
A group of American scientists became concerned with nuclear weapons research being conducted in Nazi Germany. In 1940, the U.S. government began funding its own atomic weapons development program.
Japan had become even more deadly when faced with defeat.
In order to avoid high casualty, the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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World War II End
After Allies defeated German and Italy, at the Potsdam Conference of July-August 1945, Harry Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the ongoing war with Japan as well as the peace settlement with Germany. After Heavy Casualties on the Battle at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Truman authorized the use of the atomic bomb. On Agust 15, Japan agrees to an unconditional surrender. The War led the global shift in power from Europe to two rival superpowers-the U.S. and the Soviet Union. -
Creation of NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the U.S. and 11 other Western nations to form NATO. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public school was unconstitutional.
Brown claimed that schools for black children were not equal to the white schools, and that segregation violated the 14th Amendment
Though the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board didn't achieve school desegregation on its own, the ruling fueled the nascent civil rights movement in the U.S. -
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. Soviet Union launched it. Its radio signal was easyly detectable. The surprise sucess of sattlelight precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race.
The launch was the beginning of a new era of political, millitary, technological, and scientific developments. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba.
Many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war because this was the first time that people felt the effect of the war. However, disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to Soviet leader Khrushchev’s offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. -
"I Have a Dream" speech
The "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered by Martin Luther King, remains one of the most famous speeches in history.
By the early 1960s, African Americans had seen gains made through organized campaigns that placed its participants in harm's way.
This speech and the 'March of Washington' in 1963 tried to reach goals including demands for desegregated public accommodations and schools, redress of violations of constitutional rights and an expensive federal works program to train employees. -
U.S. Involve in Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long and divisible conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and the U.S. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Domino Theory, which held that if one Southeast Asian country fell to communism, many other countries would follow, led the U.S. to involve in the war.
Anti-War movement rise in the U.S. and horrific images of the war on their televisions intensified the movement. -
Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the moon (Apollo 11)
The American effort to send astronauts to the moon had its origins in an appeal President John F. Kennedy made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961. At the time, the United States was still trailing the Soviet Union in space developments.
On July 20, 1969, at 10:56 p.m., Armstrong stepped off the ladder and stepped on the moon.
The Apollo program cost $24 billion. The expense was justified by Kennedy's 1961 mandate to beat the Soviets to the moon. -
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade was a landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s legal right to an abortion.
The Court ruled that a woman’s right to choose an abortion was protected by the Fourteenth Amendment
This decision brought lots of controversies among people.
Pro-life people argued that abortion should not be justified under the name of freedom of choice and women's rights.
Pro-choice people argued that abortion is women's right and personal freedom.
