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Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Christpher Columbus found America in 1492, even though Christopher Columbus really ment to go to India for medicines and supplies and wanted to trade the medicines for spices. He was an explorer and made four trips across the alantic ocean. But Christopher Columbus was also a cruel person because he inslaved the indians and he came to america in the 15 century. The ships that came with him was the niña, Pinta and the Santa Maria. -
Jamestown
Jamestown was built in 1607 the first town built in America.Jamestown is also located in virgina.For 83 years Jamestown has been the capital of Virgina. The first settlement in America was north America in plymouth massachusetts and this was called james town because it was named after the king. -
Mayflower
The pilgrams traveled in the mayflower to Plymouth Massachusetts in 1607. The captain of the mayflower was Christopher jones and 102 people were on mayflower. There were 50 officers on the mayflower. The may flower disembark the mayflower March 1621 due to the extreme cold. There were also dieeases that people got on the mayflower and the diseases were called scurvy, tuberculosis and pneumonia. -
Puritans
The puritans were the colonist from england and there religion was protest. The english laws stoped the puritan from practicing their religion. The puritans started in england and then they moved to new england in North America. The puritans began a movement and left the church of englanddomr became ministers. -
End of French-Indian War
This war was called the seven year war and this war was from 1754 to 1663. THis war was about controller over two rivers. The british fought in the war and won. -
American Revoluion
It started in 1775 - 1783 nd this began as a protest to the british until 1770 the Boston massace event which would be a cause of war. The american revolution began as a disagreement over the Great Britain treated. America felt they deserved all the rights of the englishmen but were not reciving them. The important people in this war were Joseph Brand, Benjamin Franklin, king George lll, George Greenville, Thomas Jeffersson and George Washington. -
Declaration of Independence
The people who wrote the declasation of independence were Roger Sherman, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Liningston, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. The reason this was written was because they needed to prepare a statement of the reason for separation of the reason for separation. This historical document was written in 1776 and written in virgina. -
Bill of Rights
THey are the laws that protect american citizens and the person that wrote the bill of rights was Thomas Jefferson. These were written to strengthen laws. -
War of 1812
This war was the second war and this war was about inderpendence. This war was in Canada and was fought in the naval battles in the american and canadian frontier. The people in the war was british, candian, american and some indian tribies. -
Erie Canal
The erie canal is in the U.S and in runs through New York, Ohio, New Mexico and the Mississippi river. The erie canal is used to send goods and to make trades across America. Robert Fulton helped with the trasportation by building steam boats. In the 1800's this was being used but by 1840 the nation had 3,000 Miles of canals. Robert Fulton made steam boats because it would be easier and faster and more organized to bring the goods in steam boats. -
Jacksons Presidency
In 1824 some state political factions rallied around Jackson, by 1828 enough had joined "Old Hickory" to win numerous state elections and control of the Federal administration in Washington. His views won approval from the American electorate, in 1832 he polled more than 56 percent of the popular vote and almost five times as many electoral votes as Clay. -
The Mexican War and the Alamo
The almamo was a mission during the mexican war in 1846. The Countries in this war were America and Mexico and this war was for independence. -
Civil War and the Reconstruction
The civil war happened because of slavery, cotton and they did not agree with each others live stocks. it also happened because of factories and wages and cotton production. Then it happened because of the Missouri compromise and slavery. There was also war because the union wanted to abolish slavery while the south was trying to fight for there life style by keeping slavery. The civil war also happened because the south did not want Lincoln to be elected president. -
Industrial Revolution no exact date
in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian, handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture. This process began in England in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world. Although used earlier by French writers, the term Industrial Revolution was first popularized by the English economic historian Arnold Toynbee 1852–83 to describe England’s economic development from 1760 to 1840. Since Toynbee’s time the term has been more broadly -
Lousiana Purchase
The lousiana purchase was when Monroen and Livingston offered Napoleon $15 Million to sell French Claims known as Lousiana. This started in under a land act in 1800 and this was from 1787 to 1803. -
Progressive era No Exact Date
America in the 1890s in 1995. The decade of the 1890s as filled with tensions and problems that cried out for resolution. In the last section we discussed the exploitation of people and resources and suggested that if actions had not been taken to alleviate the more glaring injustices in American society, the nation might have been headed for rebellion. -
Spainish American War
The war that erupted in 1898 between the United States and Spain was preceded by three years of fighting by Cuban revolutionaries to gain independence from Spanish colonial rule. From 1895-1898, the violent conflict in Cuba captured the attention of Americans because of the economic and political instability that it produced in a region within such close geographical proximity to the United States. -
World War 1
The countries in world war 1 were Austria, Belgium, Brazil, British Empire, Bulgaria, China, France and Colonies, German Empire, Greece, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Montenegro, Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia and the United States of America. It was directly triggered by the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand and his wife, on 28th June 1914 by Bosnian revolutionary, Gavrilo Princip. -
Great Depression No Actually Date
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped and this also made businesses to go out of buiness. -
World War 2 NO exact date
World War 2 was fought between two groups of countries. On one side were the Axis Powers, including Germany, Italy and Japan. On the other side were the Allies. They included Britain, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, the Soviet Union, China and the United States of America. The reason America went into world war 2 was because of the bombing of pearl harbor even though we did not want to be in world war 2. -
Cold war NO exact date
The cold war was a battle in world war 2 in the winter and the countries who fought in this war was the same people who fought in world war 2 because this event a little after in world war 2. The Cold War is the name given to the relationship that developed primarily between the U.S.A and the U.S.S.R. after world war 2 -
Korean War No Ecact Date
North Korea and South Korea fought in this war. The Korean War was an episode in the Cold War. It seemed to be a war between South and North Korea, but America and Russia were using it to fight without having a hot war. -
JFK
On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die, the reason he died was because he was assassinated Johnson Bush and Nixion. -
Tet Offensive
U.S. troops had been in Vietnam for three years before the Tet Offensive, and most of the fighting they had encountered were small skirmishes involving guerilla tactics Guerilla warfare is basically a hit and run tactic. The Tet New Year is a very important day for the Vietnamese and nearly all normal day to day activities stop to allow those who can the opportunity to celebrate the lives of their ancestors. -
A Day America Will Never Forget
On september 2001 is a day we n=will never forget when we had a terrorist attack in New York and the twin towers fell and most people died and some wounded. Al qaeda are the terorist to cause this by sending 2 suicide bombers to ameriica. -
Regan Era NO Exact Date
Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem. That applause line, delivered halfway through Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address in 1980, embodied the distilled essence of Reagan's greatest lasting contribution to American life. -
Vietanam
The early history of Vietnam is that of Tonkin, Annam, and Cochin China. The first Europeans to arrive were the Portuguese in 1535. Dutch, French, and English traders came in the 17th cent. At which time missionaries entered the area, winning many converts to Roman Catholicism. During the hot war when America went to Vietnam he had a lot more guns and supplies than them but the reason they won the war is because of better war tactics.
