united states history class time line 2013_2014

  • the revalutionary war

    the revalutionary war began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, but gradually grew into a world war between Britain on one side and the newly formed United States, France, Netherlands, Spain, and Mysore. The main result was an American victory and European recognition of the independence of the United States.
  • decloration of independance

    the decloration of independance is one of the most important documents in our nation it led the thirteen colonies to separate from the British Empire and gave us independance.
  • Ratification of the United States Constitution

    Congress endorsed a plan to draft a new constitution, and on May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention convened at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. On September 17, 1787, after three months of debate moderated by convention president George Washington, the new U.S. constitution created a strong federal government.
  • the luisiana purchase

    the luisiana purchase
    The united states made the luisiana purchase around 1800. they paid aboiut $15,000,000 for it witch comes out to about 3 cents per acer. we bought it becouse we neede more rescorses and we needed the missisippi river so farmers could ship thier goods and sell them. (McDougal Littell) pages 345 and 346
  • The Lewis and Clark Journey

    The Lewis and Clark Journey
    lewis and clark were chose to go on an expadition by thomas jefferson to the new purchased land. they were sent to study new plant and animal life and find the ocean and mississippi river. along the way they were helped manny times by the native americans and mostly sacajuwea. (McDougal/Littell),346-348
  • The Texas Revolution

    The Texas Revolution
    The texas revolution consisted of a war againsed mexico becouse the americans resulted in mexican laws. slave owners were angry with the mexians becouse they outlawed slavory, all this led to the war of the texans and the mexicans.(McDougal Littell 427-429)
  • The California Gold Rush

    The California Gold Rush
    The california gold rush stared in 1849 when a man spotted a piece of gold in a river. this changed america forever creating one of the biggest migration movements in american history. people everywere in the us were mooving to try to get them selves some presus vouluable gold ass well. (McDougal Littell439-430)
  • Uncle toms cabin

    Uncle toms cabin
    uncle toms cabin was the seconed best selling book of its time in the north, it was about the cruelty of slavory and how hard it was to be a slave. also the book tells about an escape of a slave named Eliza. this book finaly made manny more people realize that slavory needed to be abalished.(McDougal Littell page 485)
  • bleeding kansas

    bleeding kansas
    Bleeding cansas was a amall piece of territory in 1854 to 1861 between missuri and kansas witch both had diffrent opinions on slavory . soon there was a battle called the sack of lawrance. the batttles soon led up to a major event called the cival war. this is how bleeding kansas got its name.(McDougal Littell page 487)
  • harpers ferry

    harpers ferry
    Harpers ferry is a us arsonal of weapons that was soon to be invaded by a man named john brown and 18 others. they invaded the weapons to give to slaves hoping that they would fighit back agaistn the us marines and become free but none did. brown lost the battle and was capured and areseted along with many more of his men, but others were killed and some escaped.(McDougal Littell page 497)
  • The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
    Lincoln was in a private box above a stage with his wife Mary, and some other friends Lincolns arrived late for the comedy, but the president was reportedly in a fine mood and laughed heartily during the production.
  • The years of world war 1

    The years of world war 1
    World War 1 was an extremely bloody war, with masive losses of life and little ground lost or won. it was Fought mostly by soldiers in trenches, World War 1coused about 10 million deaths.
  • years of ww 2

    years of ww 2
    was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances. It was the most widespread war in history,
  • supermans first apperance in action comics

    Superman fist appeared in the commic book called action commics 1 in 1938. today this first edition commic book sells for abou 1.5 million dollars.
  • stock market crash

    The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrial countries and did not end in the United States until the American mobilization for World War II at the end of 1941.
  • attack on pearl harbor

    the japanies launched a air attack on the us naval base in pearl harber ohio. the boming lasted 2 hours and sunk over 20 ships and killed about 2400 people. japan chose to attack becouse they became impatiant with america and was tired of negotiations.
  • atomic bomb drop on hiroshima

    The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic bombs during the time of war when it drops an atomic bomb on the city Hiroshima in japan. the bomb nearly ended ww2 and killed over 80,000 pople within 3 weeks
  • years of the korean war

    the korean war was a war between north korea and south korea. It was faought becouse of a political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the Pacific War at the end of World War II.
  • the years of the vietnam war

    was a Cold War era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1st 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
  • first appearance of spiderman in comics

    Spider-Man is a fictional character, a comic book superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, he first appeared in Amazing Fantasy number 15 in August 1962
  • march on washington

    The march on washing ton was held to remind everyone about cival rights and how everyone is equal. durring the march there was singers for entertanment and manny insparatiponal speaches including the iconic I Have a Dream speach by martin luther king.
  • first super bowl

    The First AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, later known as Super Bowl I it was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The NFL champion Green Bay Packers defeated the AFL champion Kansas City Chiefs by the score of 35–10.
  • The First Inauguration of Ronald Reagan

    The first inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th President of the United States was held on January 20, 1981. The inauguration marked one of the first four-year term of Ronald Reagan as President and George H. W. Bush as Vice President. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger administered the oath of office.
  • challanger space shuttle crash

    Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft corupted over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida. curuption of the entire vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster failed at liftoff.
  • birthday

    The day I was born and the world was changed forever.
  • 9/11

    this was the day when america was under a terrorist attack. there were 4 total planes that have been hijacked, 2 crashed into the twin towers and one hit the pentagon and the other tried to hit in washington dc but failed and landed in a field nearby.
  • The First Inauguration of Barrack Obama

    The first inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States took place on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. The inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in Washington, D.C., marked the day of the first four-year term of Barack Obama as President
  • important event in my life

    one important event in my life was when i went to ODP try outs for soccer witch stands for olympic develupment program. i dont find out if i made it untill november but if i do i get to go to scottland italy and bacelona for free to play in the seconed largest soccer tournement in the world.