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declaration of independence
on this day our countrys delcaration of independece was sighned by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
John Adams - John Hancock - George Read Benjamin Franklin -
Eli Whitney and the cotton grin
On this dy eli whitney built a machin that would drasticley changed the production of cottn.It speeded up the prosses of seeding and removing the seeds from cotton. -
luisanna purchase
On this day our country more then doubled.. A major trade place was closed down for us.We started to lose money so our president at that time (president jeferson.) bought this city (new orlans.) But suprisingly france (who owned neworlans at the time ) decided to sell us a huge part of land alng with the city. -
lewis and clark
President jeffferson wanted to exsplore the new land hat our country had just bought. Jefferson hired two exsplores. lewis and clark, these young men got a group of people to geather and went out nd for 2 years exsplored the louisianna territory. most poeple thought that they were dead becouse of how long they were gone. On this trip lewis drew the first map that the next centary would use to move out west. -
the steam boat
this evention greatly helped the poeple ship there goods up nd down hte river (mississippi) before this baot farmers would build a flt boat and then they would have to sell it and walk the hole way back becouse the river was to strong to paddle back up stream. the steam boat how vere you could do this with. It shaved so much time of the trip. it was made by A man named Robert foulton. -
texas revoulution.
on this day there was a conflict between the stae and the goverment of mexicoand texas. -
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the texas revoulution
This day began as a battle The Texas Revolution began with the battle of Gonzales and ended with the battle of San Jacinto but there were earlier clashes between official forces and groups of colonists -
The alamo
on this day there was a battle that was called the alamo. this battle took place during the texas revelution. The mexican apporched and a demadeded a surrener but the teaxasn refused strting this battle. -
trail of ters.
on this day the president of the U.S sighned a paper for the indian removel act. this was when poeple would go and force the ideans of thehre land by foirce and most of the time it the white poeple would move them to a reservatipon tht the U.S hd saved for the indians -
the amaricn and mexican war.
The U.S. Mexican war- It ended when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was sighned . However, fighting between Mexican guerrillas and U.S. troops continued for several months afterward. The last American troops left mexico. this war happend becouse -
the californaya gold rush
This event begain when one man had found gold and he struck it ritch. this man wanted to keep it quiet becouse he feared what would happen. Well word got around and soon there were poeple coming from all over the country trying to get gold or strike were this many did. many men left there fmilys to move out there. some even took there fmiliesd with them, -
The Attack on Fort Sumter
This event started the amarican civil war.the civel war was started becouse the north wanted to end slavery but the south wanted to keep it so this conflict started to creat arguments which later turned in to a war. -
the assassintion of president abraham lincon
abraham lincon was assassintaed on april 16 1865 . A lot of people did not like abraham lincoln becouse he freeded the slaves. so one person hated him so much that he shot abrham in the head, this mans name was John Wilkes Booth -
Attack on pearl harbor
On this day peral harbor in usa was attacked. this attack started worl war 2. At this time the great depression we were atackted by the Japanese Navy. -
brown v. board of education
on this day the sapream court declared that there would be sepreate schools were unconstitionol so they declared that all people would beableto attend the same schools. (blacks no longer had to go to diffrent schools they could go to the same schools as the white children) -
the assassination of president kennedy in 1963
On this day one of our great presidents was shot and killed. the man who killed kennedy was Lee Harvey Oswald. This man was killed before his trial. president kennidy is barried in Arlington National Cemetery. at his grave there is a flame that burns 247. -
the death of Elvis
Elvis died when he was 442 years old. They believe that Elvivs was a drug addict He used perscription drugs. But adoctor said that even if they did not find these pills in his blood he still would have died from "cardiac arrhythmia but they also think that they used this to cover up the real couse which was taking precription drugs in doses that no doctor would ever perscribe. -
my birthday
on this day i was born. -
word trade center was destroyed by terrists
On september 9th 2001 two planes were high jacked and hit the word trade centers (the twin towers) -
RMS titanic
The RMS titanic was a britsh ocean liner. ti was as long as 3 blocks. This great ship carried some of the richist people in the world on it. this ship also carried imigrents on it. People said that thins ship would be unsinkable becouse of all the saftey additions it had for exsample, there were bilt in water compartments. On april 10 1912 this great ship left the harbor on her first vouage, On april 14th 1912 the great ship hit an ice burg and snank. some people did servive. -
the donner party
this was a famus group of people becouse they went to take a mountin pass and they were stranded for the winter and they got so despreate tat they turned to candablism and when ever some one died they would eat them.
