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The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the founding document of American history. It has been included among one of the most important documents ever to be written in the history of the United States of America. Today we recall it as the Bill of Rights. -
Signing of the U.S. Constitution
The U.S. Constitution was Written over 200 years ago, the Constitution of the United States of America remains as the basic foundation of American law, and one of the most influential legal documents ever created. Also is a blue print for all of our governement. ThIs document is important because it spreated us from Great Britin -
The Cotton Gin
Although the Cotton Gin was invented in 1793 he never had gotten a patent until March 14, 1794. The Cotton Gin made slave demand go through the roof, also make cotton picking go more efficiently. -
The Louisiana Purchase
On April 30th presdient Jefferson has bought land from Napoleno that doubled the size of the United States over night. This was the biggest land purchasing in U.S. history. This also gave people new opportunities to move west. -
Sand Creek Massacre
The Sand Creek Massacre,also know as the Chivington Massacre was suprised attacked on a surrendered Cheyenne Indian cam located in southeastern Colorado. This camp was man slotered by at least 675 U.S. troops. -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment was signed by President Abraham Lincolon. This document granted citizenship to any people born or naturalized in the United States to be free. This freed slaves to be newlt freed men and women. -
Compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 automatically ened reconstruction in the South. Union troops left, and left white people to come back in controll of the newly freed men. The compromise stated that that the Union could have their presidnet in office, but reconstruction had to end. Everything the North won from the Civil War was lost. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Wounded Knee, is located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota,was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. An 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux. -
Stock Market Crash of 1929
On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Apollo 11 landing on the moon!
On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong becaome the first man to land on the moon. Six hourse later, Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. This was important to America becasue we beat Russia to outerspace and we won the Great Space Race. -
Birthday Day
I was born at Women and Babies hospital. My mother and I live at my house al by our selfs now for five years. Moreover i have a half brother sister. I love playing soccer and spending time with my nephew on the weekends. -
Terriost attacts of September 11. 2001
On September 11, 2001, a extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.