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Aug 29, 1492
Columbus lands in the New World
– Christopher Columbus lands in Hispaniola and discovers the new world in the 15th century we chose this event because we think if Christopher Columbus hadn’t found ‘the new world’ America would not have developed it’s freedom and democracy policies today -
Aug 29, 1542
Mississppi River is founded
the mississppi river is important because most of the water we can use to drink or wash is from this river because of how it runs through many states. Amd its was an important trade route. -
King Phillip's war in New England
king phillip wanted to convert the Indians to his own religion,Puritans. The first three quarters of the seventeenth century New England’s populations decreased from 140,000 to 10,000. -
First Great Awakening
this religious revitalization movement swept over protestant Europe and birtish America and mostly the American colonies between 1730’s and 1740’s making a pernament impact on the American religion. Powerful preaching made the listeners gain personal guilt and their need of salvation by Christ. -
Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod
Benjamin made a serious observation of the increase of human kind writing his book called the ‘obseervations concerning the increase of mankind’. -
Ottawa chief Pontica captures British forts
no longer to play the French off against the british native Americans found it increasingly difficult to slow the advance of white settlers into thw western parts of new york, Pennsylvania, north and south Carolina, and virginia -
Boston tea party
the british people had closed the taxes on everything but tea.the townshed duties received only 21,00 pounds of tea while the british had 700,00 pounds. So the Americans revolted against the british, dumoing their tea. -
Declaration of Independence
during the spring of 1776, as the historian Pauline maier has shown colonies localities and groups of ordinary Americans adipted resolutions endorsing independence. These resolutions encouraged continental congress to appoint a five member comitee to draft a formal declaration of independence -
George Washington elected as 1st president
the constituion provided only a broad outline of the office and powers of the president. It would be up to the president to define the office. -
Jeferson elected as president
thomas’s goal as president was to restore the principles of the American revolution.a new revolution was necessary,’as real a revolution in the principles of our government as that of 1776 was in its form.’ -
Lewis and Clark explore Louisiana territory
to gather information about the geography, natural resources, and people of Louisiana, and to establish territorial claims to the trans-mississppi west, jerfferson dispatched an expedition, led by his private secretary, Meriwether lewis (1774-1809), and William clark (1770-1838), a Virginia born military officer. -
A second war of Indepence
the Britain interference with American rights on the high seas. “free trade and sailor rights” . many westerners and southerners had their eye on expansion, viewing war as an opportunity to add Canada and Spanish held florida -
Election of 1860
the 1860 election revealed how divided the country had become. In the final balloting, Lincoln won only 39.9 percent of the popular vote, but received 180 electoral college vote, 57 more than the combined total of his opponents. -
the president is murdered
at noon during good Friday, april 14, 1865 major Robert Anderson raised the U.S. flag over fort sumter. It was the same flag he had surrendered four years before.jonh wikes booth entered the presidential box at ford’s theatre in Washington and shot abe Lincoln in the back of the head.while running john wilkes fell and broke his ankle and yelled “sic semper tyrannis’ -
First Red Cross founded
this hospital cared for the injured soldiers that have been injured during war and was sent home. -
Women can vote
New Jersey (one of the original states) started to allow women to vote. In 1838, Kentucky authorized women to vote in school elections, and many other states followed
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U.S. and Soviet Union sign treaty
It said that the government regarded the partial ban on testing as an “important intial step” and hoped that “further progress” toward peace would be achieved. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese Imperial Navy had bombed Hawaii in December 7th. It was to stop the U.S. interfering with with military actions the empire of Japan was planning in the southeast Asia against over seas territories of the United Kingdom. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed 2,402 men were killed and 1,282 wounded. -
Collapse of Communist
After 40 years, Communist Party leaders in Eastern Europe had ruled confidently. Each year their countries fell further being the west. The Soviet Union would always send in the tanks when the forces for change became too great, but they had not bargained on a liberal Soviet leader like Mikhail Gorbachev. -
Election of Obama
democrat, Barack Obama defeated Republican John Mcain. The 2008 election was the first in 56 years in which neither incumbent president nor vice president ran.
