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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America. They defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War in alliance with France. This event is important because it was the start of the Constructing of the United States. -
Civil War
The Civil War, also known as “The War Between the States,” was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 and formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery. The Civil War was very emotional and turning point in US History. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free. This event was remembered to be one of the most remarkable events in US History which led to the official movement towards A.A. Freedom. -
Lincoln assassination
The Assassination of President Lincoln. Shortly after 10 p.m. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln.
With the assassination made on the president due to tense situations with the North and South led to this. -
Reconstruction
The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 to 1877 in American history. It was a significant chapter in the history of American civil rights. The Reconstruction helped the U.S. advance faster in the world. -
The First Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. The first railroad helped make the U.S. transfer goods and people as well as mail to parts of the U.S. more efficiently. -
Alexander Graham Bell Telegram
Alexander Graham Bell is best known for his invention of the telephone, for which he received his first patent in 1876. Alexander helped make a way to communicate with others faster than mail with the brand new telegram . -
Wrights Brothers Flight
December 17, 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with Wilbur flies a glider in earlier tests
Kitty Hawk, Oct. 10, 1902.Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. The Wright brothers helped to produce flight and give the U.S. an advantage against other countries in evolution. -
Prohibition US enters WW1
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. The prohibition got rid of alcohol and brought the U.S. into WW1. -
Great depression begins
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s. The Great Depression was famously the most arguably the most controversial topic that put America in poverty under the presidency of Herbert Hoover. -
FDR inaugurated
The first inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as the 32nd President of the United States was held on Saturday, March 4, 1933. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President and John Nance Garner as Vice President. FDR was one of the major turning point for the U.S by helping poverty and healing the great depression in many ways. -
Pearl Harbor
he Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day. This was important because it brought the United States in the war and changing the tide of the war making us help France, Britain and Russia. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah , was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by local collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe between 1941 and 1945. The Holocaust was important because it showed how one man can change the world's view on war and Dictatorship. -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. We thought this was important because this showed how powerful the United States really was, and in a way getting revenge, and 3 days later dropping another one causing them to surrender. -
JFK Elected president
The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democrat John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee. This was important because JFK was going to further help the U.S economy and also supported the civil rights movement -
Abraham Lincoln Elected
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates. Because he freed African Americans and ending slavery. -
JFK Assassination
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician and journalist who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. This was important because it showed how much hate a person can have for someone trying to help different races. -
Bombing of north Vietnam begins
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
First moon landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969. -
September 11th 2001
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. We thought this was important because it highlighted who terrorist really were and there intentions with the world, and in a sense we now have better surveillance and more security.
