US History

Colonial America

Period: Jan 1, 1607 to Jul 4, 1776

13 colonies: Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia

French-Indian War

Period: Jan 1, 1754 to Jan 1, 1763

American Revolution

Period: Apr 19, 1775 to Sep 3, 1783

Declaration of Independance

Jul 4, 1776

Authors: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston
3 rights: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
Declared freedom from Great Britain

Constitutional Convention

Period: May 25, 1787 to Sep 17, 1787

Address weakness to central gov. that existed under the Articles of Confederation

Louisiana Purchase

Apr 30, 1803

Women's Right Movement

Period: Jan 1, 1848 to Jan 1, 1920

Leaders: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Abby Kelley Foster, and Sojourner Truth
What they wanted: Women rights, treated equally

Civil War

Period: Apr 12, 1861 to May 9, 1865

Slavery
Abraham Lincoln

Emancipation Proclamation

Period: Sep 22, 1862 to Jan 1, 1863

All slaves shall be free

Spanish-American War

Period: Apr 2, 1898 to Aug 2, 1898

WWI

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

Pres. Woodrow Wilson

Great Depression

Period: Oct 29, 1929 to Feb 1, 1939

President Herbert Hoover/ Frankling Roosevelt

WWII

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945

Germany, Japan, Italy
Pres: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Generals: Eisenhower, Ford, Truman, Patton

Cold War

Period: Jan 1, 1947 to Jan 1, 1991

The geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle between two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR
Communism

Civil Rights Movement

Period: Jan 1, 1954 to Jan 1, 1968

Leaders: Bayard Rustin, Andrew Young, . William Ryan, James Farmer, and John Lewis
Reason: African Americans

9/11/01

Nov 11, 2001

Terrorists attacked the U.S.