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Colonial America
Original names of the first 13 colonies
Location and a map
13 colonies order in establish
Dates founding 1585-1607 -
French - Indian War
July 9, 1755 -
Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Thomas Jefferson
The purpose was to announce and explain seperation from Great Britain
Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness -
American Revolution
April 19, 1775 - September 3, 1783 -
Constitutional Convention
Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York send delegates, but the expected representatives of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and North Carolina never show up
Benjamin Franklin -
Louisana Purchase
April 30, 1803 -
Women's Rights Movement
1848- 1920
Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Abby Kelley Foster and Sojourner Truth
Woman, like the slave, he argued, had the right to liberty -
Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863
Third year of bloody Civil War -
Civil War
April 12 1861 - May 9 1865
Abraham Lincoln
slavery -
Spanish - American War
April 1, 1898 -
World War I
July 28, 1914
Woodrow Wilson -
World War II
September 1, 1939
Germany, Italy and Japan
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
Dwight Eisenhower -
Great Depression
October 1, 1939
Herbert Hoover -
Civil Rights Movement
1861-1865
Abraham Lincoln -
Cold War
July 4, 1991
The main concern of the United States and the other western powers during the Cold War was that the Soviet Union would obtain control of the Western . -
9/11/01
Early on the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 hijackers took control of four commercial airliners.