Landmarks in American history

  • The Bill of Rights
    1789 BCE

    The Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights is the ten first amendments of the American Constition. it guarantees the civil rights and liberties (religion, press, freedom of speech). It sets rules for due process of law and reserves all powers not delegated to the Federal Government to the people or the States.
  • The first colonies

    The first colonies

    New England: The Pilgrims were separatists. They would create a new church.. Many people died beacuse they dos not know how fishing, hunting and farming. They survived thanks to the Native Americans.
    Middle colonies: The Middle Colonies exported agricultural products and are often called the breadbasket colonies.
    Southern colonies: The Southern Colonies concentrated on agriculture and developed the plantations exporting tobacco, cotton, corn, vegetables, grain, fruit and livestock.
  • The Independence

    The Independence

    The unanimous declaration of the thirteen united States of America is a text writting by th British colonies in North America. This text was created for create the United States of America and announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. it was written by Thomas jefferson (an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer) and the Committee of Five.
  • The Constition

    The Constition

    The Constitution of the United States established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. It was signed on September 17, 1787, by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. . At the 1787 convention, delegates devised a plan for a stronger federal government with three branches (executive, legislative and judicial).
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    Westward expansion

    It is a 19th-century movement of settlers into the American West, began with the Louisiana Purchase and was fueled by the Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail and a belief in "manifest destiny."
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny

    It's John O'Sullivan who used in first the sentence "Manifest Destiny" to describe the westward expansion of the United States.
    Manifest = Obvious ; Destiny = the future who was by a divine source.
    https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/civil-war-era/sectional-tension-1850s/v/manifest-destiny
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    Civil War

    The Civil war pits the United States of America led by Abraham Lincoln against the Confederate States of America led by Jefferson Davis. Three causes of this war:
    -Economic and social differences between the North and the South.
    -States versus federal rights.
    -The fight between Slave and Non-Slave State Proponents.
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    Industrial America

    The industrial revolution allowed the United States to develop with the agriculture, exportation,ect...Thanks to this, the economy of the country to increase and continue to increase