martinez jessie

  • jamestown

    jamestown

    first permant english settlement
  • gettyburg address

    gettyburg address

    speech given by president abraham lincoln to honor the men who died at the battle of gettysburg
  • declartion of independence

    declartion of independence

    an american document in which we explain to the world why we no longer wanted to be part of the british empire
  • yorktown, virgian

    battle of the american revoultion which gen washington with much help from the french was able to corner gen cornwillis and his army to surrender,ending the war
  • constition

    constition

    a document that was called the supreme law of our country
  • treaty of paris

    the teraty of paris between the us and britian that ended the american revoultion war giving the us its independence
  • cotton gin

    cotton gin

    a machine invented that claned cotton much faster than human workers
  • lousiana purchase

    lousiana purchase

    lousiana puchase is when we bought land to increase our size doulble
  • war of 1812

    war of 1812

    war between the united states and britian
  • missiouri compromise

    missiouri compromise

    to maintain the balance pf power between slave states ans free states
  • emancipation proclamation

    emancipation proclamation

    a speech given A. lincoln in which he freed all slaves in states that where in rebiloion againest the union
  • appomaxed court house

    appomaxed court house

    the virgian town when lee surrendered to grant endeding the cibil war