Constitution 4 Dash

By brooks28
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  • Revelitiony War Begins

    On April 19, 1775, British and American soldiers exchanged fire in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. On the night of April 18, the royal governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, commanded by King George III to suppress the rebellious Americans, had ordered 700 British soldiers, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith and Marine Major John Pitcairn, to seize the colonists' military stores in Concord, some 20 miles west of Boston.
    ~http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr19.html

  • Declaration Of Independance Approved

    The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams put forth a resolution earlier in the year which made a formal declaration inevitable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

  • Revolutionary War Ends

    The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) or the American War of Independence or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War

  • US Constion Written

  • Constution Becomes The Law

  • George Washinton Is First Presdent

    On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles."
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewashington

  • Abraham Limcon Becomes the 16th Presdent

    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

  • The Civil War Starts

    The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war that took place in United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, eleven southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

  • The 13th Amendment ToThe Constution Adopted

    The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, passed by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, Secretary of State William H. Seward, in a proclamation, declared it to have been adopted. It was the first of the Reconstruction Amendments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendm

  • The 15th Amendment ToThe Constution Adopted

    The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

  • World War 1 Starts

    World War I (WWI), which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter,[4] was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

  • The 19th Amendment ToThe Constution Ratified

    The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

  • world war 2 Starts

    World War II, or the Second World War (often abbreviated as WWII or WW2), was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel
    mobilised. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_2

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Speach

    The sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. comprise an extensive catalog of American writing and oratory — some of which are internationally well-known, while others remain unheralded, and some await re-discovery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermons_and_speeches_of_Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.

  • Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War[A 3] was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

  • Dashiell's Birthday

  • 9/11 Twin Towers Fall

    The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/11[nb 1]) were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C., area on September 11, 2001. On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks

  • constutition day 2011

    Constitution Day (or Citizenship Day) is an American federal observance that recognizes the adoption of the United States Constitution and those who have become U.S. citizens. It is observed on September 17, the day the U.S. Constitutional Convention signed the Constitution in 1787. ~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_Day_(United_States)