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The Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth County written by the Separatists fleeing from the religious persecution of King James of England. -
The Boston Tea Party
the Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. people, some disguised as Indians, destroyed an entire boat of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. -
The Second Contienental Congress
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
He shot Lincoln in the back of the head with a .44 caliber Derringer, percussion-cap pistol, during a performance of “Our American Cousin,” at Ford’s Theater in Washington D. C. He then leaped to the stage, breaking his left fibula, shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis!” and may have shouted, “The South is avenged!” -
Manhattan Project
scientists, led by Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, labored diligently for some 6 years developing nuclear physics to an understanding requisite to crank out a weapon of unfathomable power. The whole project was given a big headstart by Dr. Albert Einstein, who signed a letter written by Leo Szilard, which was sent to F. D. Roosevelt, advising him that the Nazis were probably trying their best to invent a nuclear weapon, which they would certainly use on the civilian population of some large -
9/11 September 11 Attacks
were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed almost 3,000 people and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage.
