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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus Discovers America
Columbus led three ships- the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria with about 90 people. It took him about two months and nine days to reach America. Christopher dicovering America is important to us because it brought us here sooner then it would have. It would have eventually been discovered later but it got our culture started and going sooner. -
The Start of Slavery
Slavery started by when in Jamestown it led open slave trade in America. Today this affects our society because it led to the Civil War and despiste slavery being abloished. Aferican American's were not given equal rights until July 2nd of 1964. So what happened and didn't end until 1964 effected our belief of minorities and how they should be treated in our society. -
Pilgrims Reach America
The Pilgrims came to America because they didn't like the kings law, that said if you live here then you have to believe in his beliefs. We think it affects society today because still to this day we have relgious freedom and they came over here to create it and have it. Because of them teaching us this and telling us what they want we have continued the Religious Freedom. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was when Boston officials refused to return taxed tea back to Britian, so they got on the ships and threw it out into the sea. We think this effects todays society because it played a key role in American Independence. -
Declaration of Independence
A document declaring the U.S. to be independant of the British Crown. It is important and impacting to our society today because it is safer to live with it and it allows us freedom. It also doesn't let us have random executions to people that are thought to be or are part of gangs and bad things. It is a much safer place to be in and live in than in other places. It is not complete safe but it's safer than it was before it came along. -
The World's First Train
It was used in England, by 1830 there were 40 miles of railroad tracks in the United States. 10 years later in 1840 the railways grew to 2,755 miles long and by 1860 there were nearly 88,000 miles of railroad tracks. It affects us today because it was a start of a quick and efficient means of transporting people and products large distances in a much shorter time. It also led to furthur inventions in the area of transportation. -
The Creation of the Telegraph
Samual Morris succesfully tested a telegraph machine. In 1843 congress gave $30,000 to fund and experimental telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore. On May 24 1844 he made the first successful demostartion of the telegraph to the public by sending a message bewteen the 2 cities. It allowed people to communicate to other people over long distances and it led to further inventions of the telephone. It allowed us to think of new ways and now makes communication much faster. -
Charles Darwin Published his book on the Origin of Species
This produced the concept of evolution to society. It affects our society today because it had it's greatest affect on religion because it contridicted that everything on this planet was created just exactly how it is. It offered scientific data that the explination of creationism was wrong. It is still something that is debated by groups to this day. -
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a war between states, the goal was to abolish slavery in the confederate states. The Civil War effects the society of our lifes today because if it had not happened then slavery would have still gone on. It also created the Civil Right Movement of the 1960's and if it didn't occur we may not have elected our first African American President. -
13th Amendment Outlaws Slavery
The amendment stated that "All persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." We think it affects our society today because slavery is not fair it's cruel and harsh. Today African- A's can do the same thing we can, it's fair and they don't have to work for us in that way.
