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French and Indian War
The British and the French were battling on the new continent known as America. This birthed the beginning of the White American people. -
Industrial Revolution
As Britain started inventing machines and things, America has also done the same over a course of one or two hundred years. There's no real specific date about when it actually began. -
Start of Factories
As Britain began creating factories and inventions, some of their invention plans were smuggled to America. This sparked a few things that would lead to the Industrial Revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
Following the Tea Act, just before the Revolution, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty dumped 342 crates of tea in the Boston harbor. This led to Coercive Acts, and ultimately, the Revolutionary War. -
Revolutionary War
The beginning of the war that would start to permanently shape The Unites States of America. From the shot heard 'round the world to the Intolerable Acts, this sparks the war of the nation's freedom. -
Writing and Signing of the Constitution
Along with the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, this was the most important document signed in our history. It established laws and basic rights for citizens. -
Lewis and Clark's Expedition
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led an exploration/expedition through uncharted American territory. This hugely helped shape the territories and the States in later years. -
Missouri Compromise
After having a heated debate over which side of America Missouri should be on, a compromise was formed. Missouri became a slave state and California became a free state. -
Manifest Destiny
A certain attitude prevalent during American expansion in the 19th century. John L. O’Sullivan made it clear that it was America's ‘manifest destiny’ to extend its influence beyond its continental boundaries into the Pacific and Caribbean basins. -
Bleeding Kansas
The period of bloody violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. Abolitionist John Brown led anti-slavery fighters in Kansas to his famous raid on Harpers Ferry. -
Civil War
The bloodiest battle in America, and the one that really shaped the country as a whole. If the Union had lost, slavery would likely still exist. -
Reconstruction Era
After the Civil War victory and the ratification of the Emancipation Proclamation, the process of rebuilding the South was attempted. Between Lincoln's murder, the Black Codes, and the KKK, it did not go quite as well as planned. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth thought he would do the South a heroic justice by murdering President Lincoln and attempting to free the South of the new rules. Truly it was the worst thing possible to happen during a time when the nation was recovering and reconstructing.