History Timeline - Dabin Kim

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  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    On May 14, 1607, a group of English men who were apart of the Virginia Company established Jamestown. It is located in Virginia which became the 1st permanent English settlement in the US.

  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention
    On May 25, 1787 - September 17,1787, the "Founding Fathers" gathered at Philadelphia and Pennsylvania to write the Constitution that is still followed to this day.

  • George Washington

    George Washington
    George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He became the first President of the Unites States in April 30, 1789 and served until 1797. He is often called the "Father of our Country." He was important in the American Revolution as he led the Patriots army to independence.

  • Election of 1800

    Election of 1800
    From October 31- December 3 of 1800, it was the election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. It was the first peaceful transition of power between two parties, a system which still exists today.

  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny
    John O'Sullivan, a columnist and editor, created the term Manifest Destiny which was the belief that it was the American's destiny to settle the West. This term was created from when Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon. It lead to the rapid territorial expansion which resulted in the Mexican-American War in order to gain some of the western states (CA, AZ, CO, NW, NV, UT, WY) we have now.

  • Gettysburg Address

    Gettysburg Address
    On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln gave a speech in honor of the soldiers who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. The speech was given at the Soldier's National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Virginia.

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
    Three stories of a ten-floor building in New York was caught on fire causing 146 men and girls to die. The building was a unsafe workplace due to the rusty fire escapes which collapsed, no sprinkler system, and flammable barrels of oil. The owners of the factories were Max Blanck and Isaac Harris. From this tragic event, the Sullivan-Hoey Fire Prevention Law was passed which requires the installments of sprinklers to prevent another fire like the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

  • Stock Market Crash of 1929

    Stock Market Crash of 1929
    Starting from October 24, the fall of stock prices started in Wall Street, New York and the New York Stock Exchange started to sell stocks excessively. From the crash, the US fell into the Great Depression. By 1933, almost half of the nation's banks had failed and the unemployment rate reached to 30%.

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor
    On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Navy Air Service attacked the Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii by surprise. From this attack the Unites States entered World War 2 from being neutral for 2 years.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education
    From December 9 1952 - May 17, 1954, the court case of Brown vs. Board of Education made segregated schools unconstitutional which was ruled by Thurgood Marshall. It started when a young African American girl, Linda Brown, was denied the right to attend a white school in Topeka, Kansas.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Lasting 13 days, President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev had a military standoff regarding the nuclear missiles that the Soviet Union had placed in Cuba. From this we were almost involved in a nuclear war however, on October 26, Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba if Kennedy were to remove the missiles we had in Turkey. Then on October 28 Kennedy's administration accepted and removed the missiles from Turkey.

  • Human Genome Project

    Human Genome Project
    Started from 1990 to April 14, 2003, the Human Genome Project mapped the genes of the human body. The project was first led by James Watson, who proposed the double helix of the DNA, and then later by Francis Collins. The research was done in the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

  • Citations

    “Manifest Destiny.” A&E Television Networks, 5 April 2010 https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/manifest-destiny, 9 June 2019
    “Stock Market Crash of 1929.” A&E Television Networks, 10 May 2010, https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/1929-stock-market-crash, 5 June 2019
    Adam Augustyn. “Constitutional Convention.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 20 July 1998, https://www.britannica.com/event/Constitutional-Convention, 5 June 2019