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The last queen of Scotland
This is when Queen Elizabeth of England sentance her cousin to death becasue she thought Queen Mary of scots was planning to kill her and take the throne of Englnad from her. -
The Declaration of Independence
This is when the United States congress at the time accepted The Declaration of Independence. This peice of paper it was gave america it's right to fight the British and become it's own country -
Cotton GIn
This was a machine that pulled the cotton seeds from the cotton Fibers. This lead to more cotton being made then it being done by hand. -
The first steamboat up the Mississippi
This is when Robert Fulton's steamboat left Greenwich Village and said up the river. When they left the harbour the ships engine stopped but Fulton got it working again and sailed all the way up the river -
The Loisiana Purchase
This is when the United States bought land west of them and duoubled the size of the United States. This led to more people moving west and making new lives! -
Lewis and Clark's expedition
This is when A captian and a mapmaker and outdoors man by the names of Lewis and Clark to go and explore the west that the United States had just purcheased from the French. This elporation lasted for two years and the made it al the way to the pafic ocean! -
Trail of Tears
This is when the NAtive Americans from the Southner states were rmoved out west to Oklahoma. This was done becuase the South needed more land to grow crops on and the NAtive Americans would not give up thier lands. -
The Mexican American War
This is when Mexico Declared War on America. They did this becuase the U.S wanted Texas as part of it's territory. But Mexico though it was their terrotry. -
california gold rush
This event happened becuase miners found gold. Lots of Gold. In the hills of California. Hundreds of people went to California in order to get some gold and become rich. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
This is when the Confederate troops opened fire on Fort Sumter in the Charleston bay. They did this becuase if the could control the fort they would control Charleston bay and prevent the union from moving south. -
The sinking of the Lusitania
This is important becuase it made the United States go into world war 1 becasue 128 of the passangers on it were american citizens The ship was sunk in under 40 minutes by a German U-boat -
Brown vs. Borad of education
Event is important becuase it started intergartion in the school systems. This started becuase a nine year old Aferican American girl was forced to go across town when a white people school was near by. The NAACP and the girls father sued the School Borad for not let her go to the school. The supreme court then siad she was allowed buecaes it was against the consituion. -
Elivs persley's death
This was the day the world lost the king of rock. He was though to have died from a heart attack but later after more autposys it turned out that he had died becuae of an drug overdose -
My birthday!
This is the day I was brought into the world -
September 11
The two twin towers were brought down by a group of terroists. This event is imporant becuase it led to lost of building changes and more safety aganist terroist and it lead to the leader of the group into being killed -
The texas revolution
This is when the colonist of Texas went to wra with Mexico. They id dthis becuase Mexico wanted off the land that they lied on and farmed on. Mexico though the land was rigthfully thiers.
