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Aug 29, 1507
How America got it's name?
The name America is first used in a geographic book, refering to the new world. Important so we know we got our name. -
November 9th, Mayflower
The Mayflower lands in Cape Code, Mas. Needed to know where the Mayflower Landed. -
King Philips War
King Philips war erupts in New England between colonist and native amercans.
It was important to show how we faught. -
Carolina Colony
Carolina Colony is official devided into North Carolina and South Carolina.
This is im portant to show how North and South Carolina formed -
England
Parliament forbids English factory workers to immigrate to america. England wanted to keep the workers so they would make profit. -
Taxes
Pay taxes directly to England made America rebel.
Important to show why America faught England. -
British Government
British government passed declaration act giving british government control.
Another factor that Made American colonies mad. -
Boston Massare
Boston Massare occures Harassing British Soldiers.
Didn"t want to be part of Englad -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party occurs.
To show that they would go to war so they woudn'T have to part of England. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere and William Dawes warned Boston Colonist that the British were coming.
Started American Revolution. -
Congress Declares War
Congress declares war on Britain.
Begging of 1812 war. -
The Liberty party is what its enemies reproachfully call it--'a one idea party'"
In the presidential election of 1844, opponents of slavery were faced with a dilemma: whether to vote for the Whig candidate Henry Clay, or support the Liberty party candidate, James G. Birney, and possibly throw the election to the Democratic nominee James Knox Polk, an ardent supporter of territorial expansion. In 1844, the Liberty party polled some 62,000 votes--nine times as many votes as it had received four years earlier--and captured enough votes in Michigan and New York to deny Clay the -
The Revival of the Slavery Issue
No single piece of legislation ever passed by Congress had more far-reaching political consequences. The Kansas-Nebraska Act led Northern Democrats with free soil sentiments to repudiate their own elected representatives. In the elections of 1854, 44 of the 51 Northern Democratic representatives who voted for the act were defeated. -
I feel that I have been...an humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father
Threats of secession were nothing new. Some Southerners had threatened to leave the Union during a Congressional debate over slavery in 1790, the Missouri Crisis of 1819 and 1820, the Nullification Crisis of 1831 and 1832, and the crisis over California statehood in 1850. In each case, the crisis was resolved by compromise. Many expected the same pattern to prevail in 1861. -
United states buys Alaska for 7.2 million
By 1890, the United States had by far the world's most productive economy. American industry produced twice as much as its closest competitor--Britain. But the United States was not a great military or diplomatic power. Its army numbered less than 30,000 troops, and its navy had only about 10,000 seamen. Britain's army was five times the size of its American counterpart, and its navy was ten times bigger. The United States' military was small because the country was situated between two large oc -
U.S. meets World War I
Washington, April 2 -- At 8:35 o'clock tonight the United States virtually made its entrance into the war. At that hour President Wilson appeared before a joint session of the Senate and House and invited it to consider the fact that Germany had been making war upon us and to take action in recognition of that fact in accordance with his recommendations, which included universal military service, the raising of an army of 500,000 men, and co-operation with the Allies in all ways that will help m -
Roosevelt's Critics
By 1935, Roosevelt's programs were provoking strong opposition. Many conservatives regarded his programs as infringements on the rights of the individual, while a growing number of critics argued that they did not go far enough. Three figures stepped forward to challenge Roosevelt: Huey Long, a Louisiana senator; Father Charles Coughlin, a Catholic priest from Detroit; and Francis Townsend, a retired California physician. -
JFK assassinated
President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally was seriously wounded. A suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th president of the United States. -
Iraqis bomb world trade center in new york
Nearly 3,000 victims and the 19 hijackers died in the attacks.[4] Among the 2,753 victims who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center were 343 firefighters and 60 police officers from New York City and the Port Authority, and 8 private emergency medical technicians and paramedics.[5] Another 184 people were killed in the attack on the Pentagon.[6] The overwhelming majority of casualties were civilians, including nationals of over 70 countries.[7] -
First F-5 ever to touch down Joplin, MO
The 2011 Joplin tornado was a devastating EF5 multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, USA late in the afternoon of Sunday, May 22, 2011. It was part of a larger late-May tornado outbreak sequence and reached a maximum width of in excess of 1 mile (1.6 km) during its path through the southern part of the city.[1] It rapidly intensified and tracked eastward across the city, and then continued eastward across Interstate 44 into rural portions of Jasper County and Newton County.[2] Thi
