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Connecticut colonists under Captain John Mason and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River.
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Anyone who brought in a male scalp above age of 12 would be given 150 pieces of eight, $150, for females above age of 12 or males under the age of 12, they would be paid $130. The act turned all the tribes against the Pennsylvania legislature.
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The Americans where mad at the British for "taxing without representation", so they dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts
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Congress members signed the declaration. Not every man who had been present on July 4 signed the declaration on August 2.
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Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War
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General George Washington moved the Continental Army to their winter quarters at Valley Forge.
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early American hero of the Revolutionary War who later became one of the most infamous traitors in U.S. history after he switched sides and fought for the British.
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The Battle of Cowpens was an engagement during the American Revolutionary War near the town of Cowpens, South Carolina, between U.S. forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Sir Banastre Tarleton, as part of the campaign in the Carolinas
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The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. However, ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781.
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British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and his army surrendered to General George Washington's American force and its French allies at the Battle of Yorktown.
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Agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
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The official work of the government of the United States of America when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it.
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The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of George Washington as President.
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A letter written by President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States.
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George Washington died from a throat infection.
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The 1800 United States presidential election was the fourth presidential election. Thomas Jefferson won.
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U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws, statutes, and some government actions that they find to violate the Constitution of the United States.
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A self-sustaining population of over four million slaves in the South, some Southern congressmen joined with the North in voting to abolish the African slave trade.
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The American army drove off the American Indians and burned Prophetstown to the ground. Most natives no longer believed in the Prophet. Many returned to their own villages after the defeat.
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USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere was an action between the two ships during the War of 1812, approximately 400 miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It took place shortly after war had broken out.
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The Battle of Baltimore was a sea/land battle fought between British invaders and American defenders in the War of 1812.
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between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson, roughly 5 miles southeast of the French Quarter of New Orleans, in the current suburb of Chalmette, Louisiana
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United States federal legislation that admitted Maine to the United States as a free state, simultaneously with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the US Senate.
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The bitter election campaign that evolved modern party machinery and organized mass propaganda methods
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The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government.
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The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands.
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Was a rebellion of black slaves that took place in Southampton County, Virginia.
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The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar, killing the Texian and immigrant occupiers
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By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, to the United States.
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The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
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That having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an slaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom.
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A two-day civil disturbance in New York City evolving from what was originally a small-scale street fight between members of the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys into a citywide gang war.
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In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin emerged triumphant. Lincoln's election served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War.
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South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States.
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The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the First Battle of Manassas, was the first major battle of the American Civil War and was a Confederate victory.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War.
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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
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The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
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All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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He established Standard Oil, which by the early 1880s controlled some 90 percent of U.S. refineries and pipelines.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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She exposed unfair practices of the Standard Oil Company, leading to a U.S. Supreme Court decision to break its monopoly.
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Bell was granted his telephone patent. A few days later, he made the first-ever telephone call to Watson
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Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River.
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The area that was opened to settlement included all or part of the Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties of the US state of Oklahoma.
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Also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a domestic massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people, by soldiers of the United States Army.
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Seventeen-year-old Annie Moore, from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant to be processed at the new federal immigration depot.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality.
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Maine was sent to Havana Harbor to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban War of Independence. She exploded and sank on the evening of 15 February 1898, killing three-quarters of her crew. In 1898, a U.S. Navy board of inquiry ruled that the ship had been sunk by an external explosion from a mine.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in May 1900.
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The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt began on September 14, 1901, when Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President of the United States upon the assassination and death of President William McKinley, and ended on March 4, 1909.
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Ford Motor Company, commonly known as Ford, is an American multinational automaker that has its main headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.
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The 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax.
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The first stop on disembarking at the pier on Angel Island was the Administration Building.
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Allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. Senators
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President Woodrow Wilson adopted the song as a de facto “national anthem” in 1916 but did not codify this ruling. In 1929, “House Resolution 14” was presented to Congress to name “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the official national anthem to the United States.
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Broadcast of the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election.
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Miss District of Columbia, was declared "The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America" in 1921 at the age of 16 and was recognized as the first "Miss America" when she returned to compete the next year.
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Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty; they were sentenced to death. However, the ballistics issue refused to go away as Sacco and Vanzetti waited on death row. In addition, a jailhouse confession by another criminal fueled the controversy.
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The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case.
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The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923.
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This event was a great success, attracting 10,004 paying spectators, and was retrospectively named the First Olympic Winter Games.
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Coolidge appointed Hoover as the fifth Director of the Bureau of Investigation.
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written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922.
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The work describes the process by which Hitler became outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
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He became the first man to successfully fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. He called his airplane the Spirit of St. Louis, and his courageous feat helped make Missouri a leader in the developing world of aviation.
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The Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater at 1421 5th Avenue in Seattle. The movie uses Warner Brothers' Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology to reproduce the musical score and sporadic episodes of synchronized speech.
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Roosevelt defeated Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide.
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Murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park garage on the morning of that feast day.
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Nearly half of America's banks had failed, and unemployment was approaching 15 million people
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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
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Severe drought hit the Midwest and Southern Great Plains.
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President Herbert Hoover pressed a button in Washington, D.C., and on came the lights in the world's tallest skyscraper. Before that, the Chrysler Building briefly held the record at 1046 feet.
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Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party.
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Was part of his New Deal legislation, combating high unemployment during the Great Depression
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Created to relieve the economic hardship of the Great Depression.
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Braddock won the Heavyweight Championship of the World as the 10-to-1 underdog.
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German officials made every effort to portray Germany as a respectable member of the international community.
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A pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany.
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American realist novel written by John Steinbeck that won a Nobel Prize.
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Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany
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a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force
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Goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu
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a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
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Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia
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Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. The French colonies in the area were dominated by the French, formally aligned with Germany but of mixed loyalties.
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Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies was established in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II
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Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations
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Known as “the greatest carrier battle of the war,” it accompanied the U.S. landing on Saipan and ended in a complete U.S. victory.
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major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War I
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The island of Iwo Jima was a strategic location because the US needed a place for fighter planes and bombers to land and take off when attacking Japan.
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a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army
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Cerebral hemorrhage
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He killed himself with a gun.
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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
