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Louisiana Purchase
An Expedition was led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to set out to explore the land that President Thomas Jefferson had bought from France -
The California Gold Rush
On January 24 1848 There was a man name James Marshall discovered a piece of gold. A gold rush occurs when a large numbers of people move to a site where gold has been found Miners soon found the gold in other streams that was flowing from the the serria Nevada. -
The Attack of Fort Sumter
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The Mexican American War
The congress declared on mexico becasuse the mexican unit had ambushed an amercian on patrol and invade it. That is why war started. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th, 1941. Japanese airplanes made a surprise attack on the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. They destroyed many ships and killed many soldiers. It was this attack that forced the United States to enter World War II. -
Brown v. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
March on Washington
The signs telling people about the march called it the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." African Americans wanted an end to segregation and the Jim Crow laws in the south. They wanted to be treated fairly and to be given a fair chance at getting jobs. The march was a peaceful way of protesting and bringing these issues to the forefront of Washington politics. -
Elvis Presley death
The attending physicians deliberately omitted the fact that what had apparently caused Elvis' heart to beat irregularly and then stop was an overdose of prescription drugs. These drugs included codeine, Valium, morphine, and Demorol, to name a few. -
My Birthday
This is my birthday -
9/11 attack
On September 11, 2001, 19 men hijack four fuel-loaded commercial airlines bound for west coast destinations. This terrorist attack on the United States is orchestrated by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. A total of 2,977 people are killed in New York City, Washington, DC and outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.
