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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 -
The government would pay people to bring them native american scalps -
The amendment to abolish slavery -
a political protest because of the tax on imported goods -
The kick off of the American Revolutionary War -
The day 56 people signed the Declaration of Independence -
The six-month encampment of General George Washington's Continental Army at Valley Forge was a major turning point of the American Revolutionary War -
12,000 soldiers and 400 women and children started building the 4th largest colony at the time -
he entered into secret negotiations with the British, agreeing to turn over the U.S. post at West Point in return for money and a command in the British army. -
The Battle of Cowpens was an engagement during the American Revolutionary War fought near the town of Cowpens, South Carolina, between U.S. forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, as part of the campaign in the Carolinas. -
"Maryland delegates signed the ratification of the Articles of Confederation" copy and pasted because I would have said it the same way. -
It was basically the end of the American Revolution -
It made it to were slaves counted towards a states population. Every 5 slaves counted as 3 people.
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When the Constitution became the framework for the government. -
The inauguration of the United States first president -
President George Washington wrote this before retiring after 20 year of public service and 2 terms as president. -
He died of throat infection in Virginia -
Vice president Thomas Jefferson defeated president John Adams -
When the supreme court made the judicial review which is when states find a law that they think is unconstitutional they can take it down. -
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves is a United States federal law that provided that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. -
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USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere was a battle between an American and British ship during the War of 1812, approximately 400 miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. It took place shortly after war had broken out, exactly one month after the first engagement between British and American forces. -
The Battle of Baltimore was a sea/land battle fought between British invaders and American defenders in the War of 1812. National Anthem was wrote. -
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The Missouri Compromise was United States federal legislation that stopped northern attempts to forever prohibit slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state -
It featured a rematch of the 1824 election, as President John Quincy Adams of the National Republican Party faced Andrew Jackson of the Democratic Party. -
the president ( Andrew Jackson) to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
The Trail of Tears was part of a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes -
Nat Turner's Rebellion was a rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County -
The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar, killing most of the Texians and Tejanos inside. -
This treaty ended the war between the United States and Mexico. By its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including parts of present-day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, to the United States. -
allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people within the territory of the United States. -
Dred Scott v. Sandford was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that the United States Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship -
small-scale street fight between members of the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys into a citywide gang war. Boss Tweed time -
Abraham Lincoln was elected president -
South Carolina became the first state to secede from the federal Union -
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of First Manassas, was the first major battle of the American Civil War. -
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
association with the final battle of the Civil War and Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant -
They are an American white supremacy group -
The amendment for equal protection under the law -
He would become the richest man in US in history -
gave black men the right to vote -
Changed the lives and communication of Americans forever -
Custer's last stand -
the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of former Indian Territory -
a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army. -
Seven hundred immigrants passed through Ellis Island that day -
Separate but equal -
an explosion of unknown origin sank the battleship U.S.S. Maine in the Havana, Cuba harbor, killing 266 of the 354 crew members. The sinking of the Maine incited United States' passions against Spain, eventually leading to a naval blockade of Cuba and a declaration of war. -
Actually represented a lot of what was happening in the gilded age -
McKinley was assassinated Teddy then took his place -
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Where the assembly line was invented -
Rockefeller's company -
making it to where congress could collect taxes -
opened to chinese families coming to the US this is how china town came to be -
Allowing the people to vote for the senators -
a broadcast of the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election. -
Margaret Gorman, winner of the 1921 “Inter-City Beauty” contest and the first Miss America. -
Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with committing robbery and murder at the Slater and Morrill shoe factory in South Braintree. -
The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding -
The first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps. -
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1924 until his death in 1972. He held office for so long because of his "secret files" -
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. -
Volume One of Adolf Hitler's philosophical autobiography, Mein Kampf -
A case where they were trying to get rid of the teaching of evolution in schools -
Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight in history, flying his Spirit of St. Louis from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. -
The Jazz Singer, the first commercially successful full-length feature film with sound, debuts at the Blue Mouse Theater at 1421 5th Avenue in Seattle. The movie uses Warner Brothers' Vitaphone sound-on-disc technology to reproduce the musical score and sporadic episodes of synchronized speech -
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the 1929 murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang that occurred on Saint Valentine's Day. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park garage on the morning of that feast day, February 14th. -
also known as "Back Tuesday" this was caused by buying stock on margin -
Stock market crash do to buying stock on margin -
Severe drought hit the Midwest and Southern Great Plains
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America's song -
tall building -
Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover in one of the largest landslide victories in US history. -
He was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. -
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary public work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. Roosevelt was the one who set it up. -
It was part of his New Deal plan to lift the country out of the Great Depression by reforming the financial system and restoring the economy to pre-Depression levels. It was created by FDR. It was made to help with the unemployment rate. -
Braddock won the Heavyweight Championship of the World as the 10-to-1 underdog in what was called "the greatest fistic upset since the defeat of John L. Sullivan by Jim Corbett" -
The 1936 Olympics were held in a tense, politically charged atmosphere. The Nazi Party had risen to power in 1933, two years after Berlin was awarded the Games, and its racist policies led to international debate about a boycott of the Games. -
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung paramilitary forces along with civilians throughout Nazi Germany -
The Grapes of Wrath has captured the American imagination, pulling back the curtain on a way of life that most of us could scarcely imagine, and showing us the powerful ways that literature can touch society. -
THE BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME PREMIERED. -
The invasion of Poland, also known as the September campaign, 1939 defensive war and Poland campaign, was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II. -
The Battle of Britain, also known as the Air Battle for England, was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. -
This was Franklin D. Roosevelt's State of the Union Address -
The 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 -
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The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea -
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. -
Operation Torch was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. While the French colonies were formally aligned with Germany via Vichy France, the loyalties of the population were mixed. Reports indicated that they might support the Allies -
The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies was established in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II. -
The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union, during July and August 1943 -
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. -
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was a major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. -
Iwo Jima served as an emergency landing site for more than 2,200 B-29 bombers, saving the lives of 24,000 U.S. airmen -
codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He died in office -
He didn't kill himself -
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. -
an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. -
The Nixon-Kennedy Debates were the first televised debates -
In Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald -
The Beatles' record-breaking first live appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, at Studio 50 in New York City. Seventy-three million people were reported to have watched the first show. -
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Operation Rolling Thunder was a frequently interrupted bombing campaign that began on 24 February 1965 and lasted until the end of October 1968. During this period U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft engaged in a bombing campaign designed to force Ho Chi Minh to abandon his ambition to take over South Vietnam. -
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict -
Exhausted from their extensive tours, during which they couldn't hear themselves play over the roar of their fans, the Beatles decided to stop performing live in 1966. Epstein opposed the decision, which the foursome felt was necessary in order to focus on the quality of their music -
The March on the Pentagon was a massive demonstration against the Vietnam War on October -
The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people, women, children and old men, in the village of My Lai -
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. The convention of 1968 was held during a year of riots, political turbulence, and mass civil unrest. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April of that year inflamed racial tensions to an unprecedented level. -
Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to simply as Woodstock -
The trial for eight antiwar activists charged with inciting violent demonstrations at the August 1968 Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago -
Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, 1970, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on the crowd -
Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision in favor of "Jane Roe" (Norma McCorvey) holding that women in the United States had a fundamental right to choose whether to have abortions without excessive government restriction and striking down Texas's abortion ban as unconstitutional.
