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The first english settlement is Jamestown Virgina, obviously founded by the English!!
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To keep peace on and off the upcoming unknown land, they made everyone sign the Mayflower Compact
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John Locke contributes to the constitution for the colony of Carolina!
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The Albany Congress Proposed that the colonies better unite!
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Jefferson's document, though a plagiarized patchwork of political pandering (alliteration is fun), captured the spirit of the Revolution and created a rallying document for the movement.
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The former colonies had survived a war against the mighty British Empire and had proved to themselves that they could work together for a common cause, that Americans were ultimately different from their former British rulers (even Paine, who was British, identified better with the colonists), and that sovereignty was just around the corner.
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Expanded the country and our knowledge and understanding of this continent. Pushed the geographically limits of a Republic beyond what anyone could anticipate.
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One of the worst, bloodiest, gruesome battles ever known in man kind, battle of the Civil War. Antietam didn't warrant an address from President Lincoln.
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While the March on Washington was a symbol of the peace and ambivalence that the Civil Rights Movement fostered, Selma (for perhaps the first time) showed the entire country what the racial hatred in the South could become
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The world trade center came down, many of loved one was vanished to the the fact of overseas terrist
