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Connecticut colonists under Captain John Mason and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to the Pequot Fort near the Mystic River -
Anyone who brought in a male scalp above age of 12 would be given 150 pieces of eight, ($150), for females above age of 12 or males under the age of 12, they would be paid $130
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The Sons of Liberty were upset much like everyone else about taxation in Britain so they decided to protest by dressing as Native Americans and throwing tea in the harbor. -
These battles were the first engagements of the Revolutionary war. -
The first military engagements of the revolutionary war. American victory, but Britain did destroy some supplies. -
The declaration was signed in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania state house. -
The Winter at Valley Forge was spent encamped by General George Washington and his Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. -
Winter camp that the Continental Army stayed at during the winter of 1777-1778. -
Revolutionary War hero Benedict Arnold turned his back on his country in a secret meeting with a top British official. -
shortly after dawn on a bitterly cold morning and resulted in a devastating defeat for the British army, ending a brief string of victories for the Crown in the southern colonies. -
Congress adopted the Article of Confederation on November 15, 1777. It wasn't ratified by all 13 states until March 3rd. -
This was the last major battle of the revolution and marked our new independence. -
compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives. -
June 6th 1788, the constitution was ratified after a long thought-out process to assure stability in the United States. -
On Tuesday April 30th, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City, George Washington was inaugurated almost two months into his first term as president. -
Rather than being spoken by himself, he had his address published in papers for all to read and reflect on. -
December 14th, the first U.S. president George Washington died of a throat infection. His death -
This election was a very powerful and important one, it was the first peaceful transfer of power we had seen. -
The U.S. Supreme Court first declared an act of congress unconstitutional and established judicial review. -
victory of a seasoned U.S. expeditionary force under Major General William Henry Harrison over Shawnee Indians led by Tecumseh's brother Laulewasikau (Tenskwatawa), known as the Prophet -
A battle between an American and British ship during the War of 1812. -
Sea/Land battle with Britain attacking America. Americans fought off the attackers to get them out of Baltimore city and ports. -
Under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham, the British Army fought the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson, -
balanced desires of northern states to prevent expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it. -
Andrew Jackson gets elected. -
authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Indigenous people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. Part of the Indian removal, the ethnic cleansing was gradual, occurring over a period of nearly two decades. -
a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831, led by Nat Turner. The rebels killed between 55 and 65 people, at least 51 of whom were White -
The Mexican army led by Santa Anna killed nearly every Texan and Trejano inside the alamo in a 13-day siege. This however fuelled the rest of Texas to fight the Mexican Army. -
A treaty is signed, ending the war between the United States and Mexico. Mexico gave up 55 percent of its territory. -
required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. -
decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that the United States Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for people of African descent, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free, and so the rights and privileges that the Constitution confers upon American citizens could not apply to them -
The Dead Rabbits riot was a two-day civil disturbance in New York City evolving from what was originally a small-scale street fight between members of the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys into a citywide gang war, which occurred July 4–5, 1857 -
Lincoln was elected president, against John C. Breckinridge. -
The first state to secede from the federal Union, Abraham Lincoln's victory in the 1860 election caused the southern slave states to rebel. -
In the Battle of First Manassas, the first major battle of the American Civil War, Confederate victory was followed by a union retreat. -
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
It was fought July 1–3 in 1863, the bloodiest battle of the civil war with nearly 50,000 casualties. Union victory -
The practice of slavery continued to be legal in much of the U.S. until 1865, of course, and enslaved people continued to be bought and sold within the Southern states, but in January 1808 the legal flow of new Africans into this country stopped forever. -
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
Surrounded, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his men to General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union army ending the civil war. -
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States -
The KKK is established in Pulaski Tennesee. -
John D. Rockefeller Creates Standard Oil and gets super-rich -
granted African American men the right to vote. -
On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone. The Scottish-born Bell worked in London with his father, Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a written system used to teach speaking to the deaf. -
Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River. -
50,000 people were lined up at the start, seeking to gain a piece of the available two million acres -
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army. -
Ellis Island opens in New York to accept immigrants on the east coast -
decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for Black people. -
An explosion came out of nowhere and sank the USS Maine killing 266 of the ship's 354 crew members in Havana, Cuba. -
The Wizard of Oz is a distinctly American fairy tale and, a century after it was first published, one of the longest-running mass media sensations. The Wizard of Oz was published in 1900 when its author, L. Frank Baum, was 44 years old. -
J.P. Morgan Founds U.S. Steel and makes bank because everyone needed steel to build -
After Mckinney dies, T.R. becomes president -
Ford Motor Company is founded in Detroit Michigan -
Born in Pennsylvania at the onset of the oil boom, Tarbell wrote her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company. The book was published as a series of articles in McClure's Magazine from 1902 to 1904. It has been called a "masterpiece of investigative journalism" -
The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. It was passed by Congress in 1909 in response to the 1895 Supreme Court case of Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. -
the major port of entry to the U.S. for Asians and other immigrants coming from the west. -
This allows for voters to directly vote for senators -
The pioneers of broadcasting, KDKA goes on the air as the first commercially licensed radio station. -
Italian Anarchists arrested, convicted, and executed for robbery and murder. -
Taking place in Atlantic City, the 1st Miss America Pageant had girls from 7 cities as well as Atlantic City. Margaret Gorman won. -
Bribery scandal which involved president Warren G. Harding 's administration. -
1st Winter Olympics held in Chamonix, France. -
Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone appointed Hoover directer. -
Published in April of 1925, this novel told the story of a self-made millionaire and his pursuit of his childhood love. -
From July 10th to July 21st, a trail took place against a high school science teacher for teaching evolution. -
Autobiography by Adolph Hitler outlining his political ideas, as well as his future plans for Nazi Germany. -
Lindberg completed the first non-stop transatlantic flight. He flew from New York to France. -
First movie with sound. This started the era of talkies. -
Wall Street investors traded more than 16 million shares of stock in a day. This caused lots of money to be lost as well as the market to crash. -
The Great crash was a steep decline in stock prices which led to the depression. -
The murder of 7 irish North Side Gang members in Chicago. -
Herbert Hoover signed a bill into law that made the Star Spangled Banner the official national anthem of the United States. -
lasted about a decade, but its economical effects last much longer. A severe drought hit midwestern America. -
President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City's Empire State Building, pressing a button from the White House that turns on the building's lights. -
First democrat to the the election by a majority vote in 80 years. -
President Hindenburg appointed his chancellor after many backroom negotiations. -
Civilian Conservation Corps. Work relief program from 33 to 42. For unemployed men ages 18-25. -
Work Progress Administration created by FDR. -
"the greatest fistic upset since the defeat of John L. Sullivan by Jim Corbett" J.J. won with 10-1 odds. -
The Nazi Olympics. -
A night of Nazi violence, destroying jewish owned businesses, synagogues, and jewish families. -
John Steinbeck's book about American realism. -
The movie, based on the children's book, is premiered and becomes one of the most loved movies ever. -
Attack on Poland by the Nazis and the Soviet Union marking the start of World War 2. -
7/10/40-10/31/40. Royal Airforce defended Britain from Nazi's. -
Freedom of speech, of worship, from want , and from far. Speech given by FDR. -
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, which was why we joined the fight in WW2. -
the invasion of the Philippines by the Empire of Japan and the defense of the islands by the United States and the Philippine Armies during World War II -
6/4/42-6/7/42. Major Naval battle in the Pacific. -
7/17/42-2/2/43. Battle on the eastern front, Nazis and their allies fought the Soviet Union. -
11/8/42-11/16/42. Allied invasion of French Northern Africa. -
founded in 1943, it was meant to help protect cultural property. -
7/5/43-8/23/43. Largest tank battle in history. Nazis fought the Soviet Union. -
6-6-42. Landing in Normandy. Largest seaborne operation in history. -
12/16/44-1/25/45. Last major german offensive campaign on the western front. -
2-19-45 to 3-26-45. U.S. Navy and Marines captured the island from imperial Japan. -
4/1/45-6/22/45. U.S. Army and Marines beat the Japanese. -
Hitler commit suicide. -
FDR died. -
America dropped am atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which did massive amounts of damage. -
We dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, causing massive amounts of damage. -
13,000 people attended the festival at a band stage in a casino. -
First every presidential debate broadcasted on television. Those who watched thought Kennedy won because he was much calmer and more collected, and simply a better-looking guy. Those who listened over the radio felt Nixon won. -
While riding in the drop top, cruising the streets of Dallas, JFK was shot and Killed. Supposably it was one shooter, but I think maybe it was more... -
73 million people tuned into the show to see the Beatle's first live performance in America. -
An American ship was attacked off the coast of Vietnam, so an Act was made and voted in, allowing the president power to retaliate and defend united states troops in Asia. -
Sustained aerial bombing campaign by the U.S. Navy and Vietnamese Air Force against the North Vietnamese. -
Massive protest against the Vietnam war. Thousands of people rallied at the lincoln memorial and marched to the pentagon to protest. -
American soldiers killed the unarmed Vietnamese Civilians of Mai Lai. -
The anti-War protests turned into riots outside the Democrat headquarters. -
Absolute rager of a music festival. -
The jury found 3 men guilty of traveling across state lines to incite a riot and acquitted 7 defendants. -
The four members had gone from musicians to businessmen, so the band just dissolved. -
A group of antiwar protesters was fired upon by the national guard, killing four. -
Supreme court case that legalized abortion in the United States.