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Jamestown
the first continental council was held by seven settlers whose names have been chosen and place in a sealed box by King James I. the captain which included captain john smith an English advenurer chose Edward Wingfield as its first president. -
First Africans to Virginaia
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a dutch ship sails into a virginia colony, the ship holds the captain, the crew, and its empty except for the 20 plus africans aboard. the captain of the ship stole the africans from a spanish ship. The colonists from virginaia exchanged the captain food for the africans. 1623-1624 listed them as servants. -
The Mayflower
The mayflower was the ship that transpoted the english Dissentro, known today as the pilgrasms from a site near the mayflower steps. there were 102 passengers and a crew of 25-30 people -
Myles Standish
www.ask.comwas an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth Colony. One of the Mayflower passengers, Standish played a leading role in the administration and defense of Plymouth Colony from its inception.[2] On February 17, 1621, the Plymouth Colony militia elected him as its first commander and continued to re-elect him to that position for the remainder of his life.[3] Standish served as an agent of Plymouth Colony in England, as assistant governor, and as treasurer -
Thanksgiving
The Plymouth Pilgrims were the first to celebrate the Thanksgiving.They celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day at Plymouth, Massachusetts.Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States.Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States. -
Black-White Marrages Outlawed
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Baron Von Steuben
Steuben came to America December 1777. By Feb, 1778, he was training 100 men for general george washington's army. he was training them as well as disciplining them. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonist by british regulars on March 5 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeard in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the townshed acts. -
Journal of the Times
This was a series of newspaper articles published from 1768 to 1769 in the new york journal chronicling the occupation of Boston, Massachusetts, and the British Army. -
First Black Church Founded
in 1773George leiel, and andrew bryan organized the first negro Baptist Church in America. The church was located in Savannah, Georgia and only blacks were alloed to enter. -
The Boston Tea Party
it was a raid on three british ships in Boston Harbor. in which boston colonists, they threw the contents of several hundred chests, of tea into the harbor as a protest against the british taxws on tea and against the monopoly granted the East indian Company -
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contenenal congress
the contenental congress was a convention of delegates called together from the thirteen colonies That becames the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution.the congress met from 1774 to 1789. -
Battle of Lexington
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The first shots were fired just as the sun was rising at Lexington. The militia were outnumbered and fell back, and the regulars proceeded on to Concord, where they searched for the supplies. At the North Bridge in Concord, approximately 500 militiamen fought and defeated three companies -
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the American Revolution was the political upheavalduring the last half of the 18th centry in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. -
Independence Day
http://www.ask.com/answers/55915661/what-happened-on-july-2-1776The legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain happened on July 2, 1776 during the Amerian Revolution. This happened because the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that was proposed by Richard Henry Lee in June. -
The Decloration of Indipendecne
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania State House, now Independence Hall, approved the Declaration of Independence -
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New york is captured by the british
General Howe selected for the landing of his army on new york island from long island. it was the aniversity of the capture of Quabec in 1759 -
battle of trenton
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Battle_of_TrentonThe Battle of Trenton took place on December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. The hazardous crossing in adverse weather made it possible for Washington to lead the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton. -
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first presidetnt
George Washington, was the first President of the United States. Born in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman. -
The White House
The white house is in Washington D.C. the white house was built in 1792. On October 13, 1792, the first corner stones were laid. John Adams and his wife, Abigail, moved into the unfinished house in 1800. Construction was ongoing until 1809, with Thomas Jefferson as the occupant. The construction of the White House began on October 13, 1792 through the leadership of president John Adams. Even, if the construction of the house was not finished, John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams already staye -
John Adams
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Louisianna purchase
the louisianna purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000square miles, of frances claim to the territory of louisianna in 1803. the U.S paid 60 million dollars. -
Louis and Clark expedition
The Louis and Clark expodition was the first transcontinental expodition to the Pacific Coast by the United States. Commissioned by president Thomas Jefferson and led by two Virginia-born veterans if india wars in the Ohio Valley, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the expodition had several goals. Thier objects ere both scientific and commercial to study the areas of plants, animal life, and geography, and to discover how the region could be exploited economically. -
James Marchal
www.google.comwas an American carpenter and sawmill operator, whose discovery of gold in the American River in California on January 24, 1848 set the stage for the California Gold Rush. The mill property was owned by Johan (John) Sutter who employed Marshall to build his mill. The wave of gold seekers turned everyone's attention away from the mill which eventually fell into disrepair and was never used as intended. Neither Marshall nor Sutter ever profited from the gold discovery. -
Industrial Revolution
was a period from 1750 to 1850. where changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology has a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the items. It began in the United Kingdom, then Subsequently spread throughout Western Europe, North America Japan, and eventually the rest of the world. -
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Native American Relocation Act
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Charles Wilkes
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Women Start Working
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Thomas Edison was an inventer and a buisnessman. He diveloped many diveses that greatly influenced life around the world. -
Harriet Tubman
she helped hundreds of americans escape along the secret route to freedom know has the Underground railroad. Born a slave herself, she fled from Maryland to freedom in Philidalphia, in -
Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis was a Danish American Social reformer and photographer. He wrote a book called "The Making of an American", in 1901. -
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On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected in what was a truly significant election. The choice of Lincoln to be the 16th president was so divisive that before Lincoln was even inaugurated on March 4, 1861, seven states seceded from the union. -
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www.wikipedia.orgHe was the 16th predident serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Repre -
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Telegraph
The telegraph was the first time of mass communication. -
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Sky Scrapers
Sky scrapers were built all over the world. -
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Telephone
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The pirates of Penzance
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The Lightbulb
www.history-timelinePeople think that Thomas Edison built the light bulb but really Humphrey Davey invinted it. -
Jesse James
www.biography.comJesse James and his brother Frank were among the most notorious outlaws of the American West. They fought as Confederates in the American Civil War. Subsequently, the brothers were joined by other outlaws, robbing banks, trains, and stagecoaches across the country. In 1882 Jesse was shot in the back of the head and killed instantly. Their exploits were romanticized in pulp fiction and in movies. -
statue of liberty
There are 25 windows in the crown which symbolizes 25 gemstines found on earth. The seven rays of the Statues crown represents the seven seas and contenents of the world. The tablet which the statue holds in her left hand reads July 4, 1776. the total weight of copper in the Statue is 62,000 pounds and the total weight of steel is 250,000 pounds, and the total weight of the Statues concrete foundation is 54 million pounds. -
The Handouch Brothers find Oil
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the man to find it was named Lucas Gusher. 11 hundred feet bellow the brothers dug and dug. finally oil shot 200 feet out of the ground in the air. -
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Great Migration
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Triangle Factory
The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, who died from the fire, smoke inhilation, or jumping out the windows. Most of the women were recent Jewish and italian women, the oldest victim was 48, and the youngest were two 14 yead old girls -
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Student Drivers
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Fast Food
The fist fast food buisness in the Unites States was A&W. It was founded in 1916. White Castle was the second to be founded in 1921. -
Racial Tension
17 year old black boy, gets hit in the head by a rock beacuse him and his friends were at the beach and they crossed the line of the white teritory. So the white man threw rocks at them and hit one of the boys and the cops did not arrest the white man they arrested one of the black kids because he was yelling at the white guy. -
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Billy Sunday
Billy Sunday was an American Athelete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseballs Ntiojnals Legue during the 1880's, became the most celebrated and influental American evangalist during the first two decades of the 20th centry. -
HollyWoodLand
The hollywoodland sign was built from sheep metal and telephone poles at the cost of 21,000 the sign was covered with 4,000flashing electronic light bulbs -
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Oscar Duprise
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Great Dippresion
the great depression was a severe world wide economic depression in the decade preceding world war 2.It started in 1929 and ended int he late 1930"s. -
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B-14 Bomber
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World War II
The war started in 1939 and ended in 1945. The war was between Japan and China. But it was Pearl Harbor and the subsequent German declaration of war on the U.S. the us enters war in 1941 and then ended in 1945, after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. -
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The American Flag
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D-Day
june 6 1944 160,000 Allied Throops landed along a 50-mile strech of the fremch coast line to fight nazi-Germeny on the beaches of normandy. more than 5,000 ships and 13,000 alcraft supported the D=Day invation -
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Rosa Parks
http://www.who2.com/bio/rosa-parksIn 1955, Rosa Parks was an African American living in Montgomery, Alabama -- a city with laws that strictly segregated blacks and whites. On 1 December 1955, after her day of work as a seamstress at a local department store, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus. When she refused to give up her seat to a white man, the bus driver called police, and Rosa Parks was arrested and fined. The boycott was a success and led to desegregation in Montgomery and elsewhere in the United States. -
Assenation of JFK
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy</a>John F Kennedy was the 35th president, he was assassined at 12:30 pm Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas governor John Connally, and the latter's wife Nellie, in a Presidential motorcade. Kennedy is the most recent of the four Presidents who were assassinated.
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Miranda Rights
The Miranda warning (also referred to as Miranda rights) is a warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody or before they are interrogated to preserve the admissibility of their statements against them in criminal proceedings. -
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Legalizing abortion
Abortion in the United States has been legal in every state since the 1973 Supreme Court. the legality of abortion was decided by the states; it was illegal in 30 states and legal under certain cases in 20 states. Roe -
Bombing in Beirut
over 200 marines were killed when a truck, loaded with explosives crashed into the US Marine compound at Beirut Airport. On October 23, a suiside truck containign 12,000 pounds of explosives was driving into the US Marine compound at Beirut Airport, killing 241 Marines -
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The Trade Agreement
www.infoplease.comon July 26th President Carter sighne the trade act bill, the bill which was the culmination of the Tokyo Round of trade talks, reduced further tariffs on a wide range of items, and introduced a mechanism to handle unfair trade practices. -
First black President
obama was elected in 2008 and took office January 20, 2009. He is the fourty-fourth president. -
Twin Tower Attack
On September 11th four groups of terrists from al-Qeada hiijacked four planes. The first two were crashed into the both of the World Trade Centers, the third one crashed into the pentagon, and the fourth one crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. -
War in Iraq
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Iraq_Warwas a conflict that occurred in Iraq from March 20, 2003 to December 15, 2011,[43] though sectarian violence continues since and has caused hundreds of fatalities.
Prior to the war, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom claimed that Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed a threat to their security and that of their coalition/regional allies -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the first television war. A peace deal was agreed in 1973 allowing US President Richard Nixon and his right hand man, Dr Henry Kissinger to withdraw American troops. (Up to 500,000 US troops had been deployed in Vietnam.) United States failed to intervene in 1975 when North Vietnamese forces overran South Vietnam and seized the capital Saigon. It was renamed Ho Chi Minh City after the North's communist leader. -
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First Mna on the Moon
www.nasa.govIt was 1961. John F. Kennedy was the president of the United States. He wanted to land humans on the moon. The United States had just started trying to put people in space.
