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Columbus led three ships; the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria To sail west until he reached Asia to find spices and gold, but instead he ended up in America.
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The first sucessful English settlement on the mainland of North America
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Also called the seven years war, when british powers fought for power
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
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The battle of Yorkton was the most important battle in the revolutionary war
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord was the kickoff to the American Revolutionary War.
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A document signed so state that the thirteen colonies were independant
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delegates from five states discussed possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation.
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Eli Whitney created the first modern mechanical cotton gin
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There were four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams
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The Lousiana purchase was a land deal between the United States and France
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The war of 1812 was a military conflict fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies.
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An effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.
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Democratic election if the united states lasting from October 31st to December 2nd
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A financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s.
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Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morseand other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication.
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Part of Andrew Jacksons Indian removal policy. The Cherokee nation was forced from thier lands to Oklahoma.
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Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen.
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A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War.
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Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States upon the death of William McKinley.
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General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter.
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A document freeing slaves
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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.
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One of the last battles in the American Civil War
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President Ambraham Lincoln was assasinated
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"For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson"
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The electric light, one of the everyday conveniences that most affects our lives, was not “invented” in the traditional sense in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison, although he could be said to have created the first commercially practical incandescent light.
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John D. Rockefeller created Standard Oil Trust by trading stockholders' shares for trust certificates.
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, Bell made this wax-disc recording of his voice in 1885.
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Following the labor strikes, rallies, and boycotts of 1886 there was a second wave of labor activism that struck the working community in 1892
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The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane
