SS History class 2015-2016

  • Decleration of independence

    The day we became a free country and broke off from britan.
  • The articles of confederation

    This day the articles of confederatin was accepted by all 13 states.
  • The british surrender of yorktown

    That day came on October 19, 1781, when the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. They expected help from British ships sent from New York.
  • Shays Rebelion

    2,000 farmers from western Massachusetts attacked the new federal arsenal at Springfield. The government soldiers returned fire, killing three of the farmers. This was the beginning of the end of the uprising known as Shays' Rebellion, named for Daniel Shays, the man who led the insurgents. Western farmers had made economic sacrifices during the Revolution, and they were outraged when creditors demanded that they pay their debts immediately.
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    Constutinal convention

    The Constitutional Convention :31 (also known as the Philadelphia Convention, :31 the Federal Convention
  • Ratifacation of the constution

    They day that the constitution was signed.
  • Ratifction of the bill of rights.

    Articles 3 to 12, ratified December 15, 1791, by three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.
  • Cotton Gin

    This was the time when people got the cotton gin that made it 100 times faster then hand.
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    Lewis and Clark

  • First built mill

    This is when the first mill was built in lowell,mass
  • Mill in Lowell

    First textile mill in Lowell
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    Trial Of Tears

  • Gold Discovered at Sutter's Mill

    Gold was found on this day in Sutters Mill. Starting the Calafornian Gold Rush.
  • Signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    This added around 500,000 square miles in the USA.
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    Battle of Fort Sumter

    The Battle of Fort Sumter was, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.
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    Battle of Gettyburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg was in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, The union and the confeterate were fighting.
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    Battle of Little Bighorn

    It was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.
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    Great Depression

    The time period when Many bad things happend in the US and made everything hard to do.
  • Moon Landing

    The day neil armstrong landed on the moon.
  • 9/11

    They day a plane crashed into the twin towers in new york.
  • My Birthday

    The day that jordan groff was drpped off by the stork.
  • Day obama was president

    The day Obama was oficialy the presadent of the USA.