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Aug 14, 1492
Christopher Columbus Discovered America
He completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. If he had not discovered the land that is now the United States of America then there would never have been the United States of America. -
First Settlement: Jamestown, Virginia
First permanent English colony in North America founded at Jamestown. If there had never been a first settlement then the United States of America probably wouldn’t be what it is today -
The Pilgrims Arrive in Plymouth
In 1609, a group of separatists (later known as Pilgrims) fled from England to Holland, eager to escape the corrupting wickedness around them. In his classic History of Plymouth Plantation, William Bradford (1588-1657), the Pilgrim leader, explains why the Pilgrims decided to leave the Netherlands in 1619 and establish a new community in the New World, as it turned out, in Massachusetts. If the Pilgrims never came then our population would be most likely smaller. Also the pilgrims brought -
Santa Fe was Founded
Soldiers and settlers from New Spain moved northward into New Mexico in hopes of finding rich mines and rich lands. Juan de Oñate, heir to a mining fortune, led an expedition of about 500 people, including craftsmen, farmers, servants, and their families, in 1598. It brought craftsmen, farmers, servants, and their families. -
Harvard was Founded
Because its a large college today and is very hard to get into. It is very high class and teachers some of the smartest Americans so that our country can improve in its politics. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea coming into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston H It’s important because we might still be following British rule. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. It’s important because it gave us independence and without it we wouldn’t be a free country. -
The American Revolution
The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. It gave us freedom and self-government. -
Washington Becomes FIrst President
The unanimous choice to serve as the first President of the United States (1789–1797), Washington presided over the creation of a strong, well-financed national government that stayed neutral in the wars raging in Europe, suppressed rebellion and won acceptance among Americans of all types. His leadership style established many forms and rituals of government that have been used ever since, such as using a cabinet system an Without him becoming our first president we might not have a president. -
Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention (also known as the Philadelphia Convention, the Federal Convention, or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia) took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Br Created a new government rather than fix the existing one. It also improved our government and made our country stronger. -
The Louisiana Purchuse
Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million It made the Untied States larger and stronger. -
Louis and Clark Expedition
Lewis and Clark led some 30 soldiers and ten civilians on one of history's great adventures. The Lewis and Clark expedition has been likened to the first trip to the moon, except that unlike the astronauts, Lewis and Clark were out of contact with their countrymen for two years. With the assistance of Sacagawea (1787-1812), They found/ discovered part of the United States. Without their expedition we wouldn’t have discovered the rest of the United States of America. -
Missouri Becaomes a State
The Missouri territory came to the United States as part of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, one of the best real estate deals the United States ever made. It became the 23rd state. It is important because if Missouri had never became a state then we wouldn’t be living in a place called Missouri and also some of us might not be alive -
The American Civil War
Territorial integrity is the principle under international law that nation-states should not attempt to promote secessionist movements or to promote border changes in other nation states. Conversely it states that imposition by force of a border change is an act of aggression. We would still have slavery and our territorial integrity wouldn’t be preserved. -
The Beginning of World War I
World War I (WWI), which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It gave us allied victory. -
Pearl Harbor was Bombed
Pearl Harbor, or Pu'uloa, is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941, brought the United States into World War II. It’s a major part of our history and effects what goes on today in modern life. -
Alaska and Hawaii Become States
In Alaska statehood was approved by Congress on July 7, 1958. Alaska was officially proclaimed a state on January 3, 1959.It was bought from Russia.
In March 1959, Congress passed the Hawaii Admission Act and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed it into law. It expanded America. -
Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon
The subsequent landing of the first humans on the Moon in 1969 is seen by many as the culmination of the Space Race. Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon as the commander of the American mission Apollo 11 by first setting foot on the Moon at 02:56 UTC on 21 July 1969. Expanded America’s knowledge about space exploration. -
Attack on The Pentegon and World Trade Center
The hijackers (al- Qaeda lead ny Osama Bin Laden) intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and thousands of those working in the buildings. This event is important in US history because it’s when our suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaeda, which has been a big section of our news since then. Also 3,000 people were killed.
