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the steam boat
steam-powered boats working on lakes and rivers, particularly riverboats. As using steam became more reliable, steam power became applied to larger, ocean-going vessels. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The national birthday, Independence Day, is celebrated on July 4, although Adams wanted July 2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence. -
Cotton Grin
its a machine that easily seperate cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. inventor Eli Whitney. -
the louisiana purchase
in 1803 the united states purchased the 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River from France and they paid 15 million and now the united state doubled its size. -
The Lewis and Clark Journey West
Lewis and Clark was the first American to cross what is now the western portion of the United States. The expidition was assigned by Thomas Jefferson right after the louisiana purchase. -
The Texas Revolution
The spanish opend Texas to the American and they settled there. As time is going by mexico and Texas are growing tenstion towards each other. The war that happen was brutal and the U.S. won the war and we got may portion of land by this war. -
The Alamo
Mexican force numbering in the thousands outnumbered, the Alamo’s 200 defenders–commanded by James Bowie and William Travis also frontiersman Davy Crocket. Even though the Texans had a hard time they later won the on going war between mexican and textes. -
trail of tears
The removal included many members of the following tribes, who did not wish to assimilate: Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, among others, from their homelands to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.Native Americans suffered from exposure, disease and starvation on the route to their destinations. Many died, -
The Mexican American War
Invasion of Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico (which became the Second Federal Republic of Mexico during the war) from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory, despite the 1836 Texas.
Revolution.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War -
The donnor party
The Donnor Partry was a group of American Pioneers that was on their way to California on a wagon train. They chose to take a short cut and that short cut happend to cause them series of mishaps. Winter came around and there was very little food and some turned to cannibalism eating children and everything to survive. some survived and made it to their destination. -
The California Gold Rush
James W. Marshall was the founder gold he news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. Many people faced hardships that came from afar. Many people was seeking to become rich some succeeded and some didn't. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is an island that is located in Charleston Harbor Carolina. A war broke out on this small island Anderson and his 86 soldiers surrendered the Fort. -
The Supreme Case: Brown v The Board of Education
In large area in the U.S.A had racially segregated schools, which was made legal by Plessy v. Ferguson Brown claimed that Topeka's racial segregation violated the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause because the city's black and white schools were not equal to each other and never could be.http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html -
sputink satellite
Sputnik was the first artificial satellite. It circled the earth once an every 36min When it ws first launched Sputnik was launched during the International Geophysical Year also The signals continued for 22 days until the transmitter batteries ran out on 26 October 1957. -
Bees-chapter 1
Lily sneaks out into the corn filed with a picture of her. T.Ray finds her and ounishes her by kneeling in grits. -
bees-chapter1
Lily has flashbakes of her mother who was accidently shot by Lily when she was at the age of 4 years old. -
Lily and Rosaleen run away from home
Lily get abused way to much in the house and that caused her to run away -
Bees ch.3
A wooden picture of black Mary that used to belong to her Lily's mother leads her and Rosaleen to Tiburn, South Carolina, thats where she met the sisters August,June and may. -
Bees ch.2
Lily decided to go with Rosaleen into town and she was stopped by three white people and they made a racist comment and Rosaleen took action by dumping her spit jar onto their shoes and was arrested. -
ch.6
Mary'' August spiritual group told the story of how they got the black statue of black Mary -
Zack goes to jail
A bottle was thrown by a group of people so they put the blame on zack and his friends. -
Lily gets stung by bee while taking the lid off one of the hives.
August calls Lily a ''True BeeKeeper'' which brightens her day. Then she tries to take a nap and has terrifing thoughts about her mother. -
civil right act passed
Rosaleen was sitting watching tv and heard the passing of the act She wanted to change something. -
Rosaleen wants to vote
Rosaleen wants to vote. On 4th of july there holding a voters' rally at the colored church. -
Bees- chapter 1.
Lily was born, the bees came the summer of 1964 the summer and thats when she turend 14 and she starts viewing the world differently. -
U.S.A. walk on the moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC. Armstrong spent about two and a half hours outside the spacecraft, Aldrin slightly less, and together they collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material for return to Earth. -
The death of Elvis.
Elvis was an american actor and singer. He was called the King of Rock and Roll. He attended L.C Humes High School. At the age 43 Elvis was reported dead from Cardiac Arrhythmia. -
jv was born on 12-27-1999
Jv is amazing almost at every sport. -
9/11
On a clear day American Airline flight 11 and United Airline flight 175 were both hijacked by a group called 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. The 2 planes struck the twin tower's down and many was injured and killed that day.
