12 Most Important Events Of The U.S.

By nickqueen2002

  • Signing of Declaration of Independence

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    Winter at Valley Forge

    Continental Army suffered defeat after defeat.
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    Ratification of US Constitution and Bill of Rights

    These documents became the foundation for the many laws and court decisions that were to follow.

  • Louisiana Purchase

    President Thomas Jefferson signed a treaty with General Napoleon Bonaparte of France in which the USA acquired almost 830,000 square miles of land from the French for $15 million.

  • Missouri Compromise

    This agreement was designed to maintain equal power between the slave states and free states.
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    Battle of the Alamo

    Mexico gained independence from Spain, and gained control over a large amount of territory in Central and North America.
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    Battle of Gettysburg

    The North was entrenched in the high ground just outside of town. The South was strongly defeated.

  • Wounded Knee Massacre

    Once the Europeans began exploring and colonizing the Americas in the 1500s and 1600s, wars broke out between the Europeans and Native Americans.

  • USA Declared War on Germany

    This changed the balance of power in favor of the Allies.
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    Stock Market Crash

    Dow Jones Industrial Average lost almost 40% of its value in 57 days.

  • Pearl Harbor Attack

    Pearl Harbor was bombed.

  • US Lands on the Moon

    With President John F Kennedy’s direction, the US wanted to become the first nation to send a man to the Moon.