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Colonial America
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island.
Founded: 1607
Independence: July 4th 1776 -
French Indian War
1754 – 1763 -
American Revolution
1765 - 1783 -
Declaration of Independence
Author(s): Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, John Adams and Robert R. Livingston
Rights listed: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Purpose: To announce and explain their seperation from Great Britain. -
Constitutional Convention
May 25 1787 - September 17, 1787
The constituation was written.
Oldesr member: Benjamin Franklin -
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The Constitutional converntion
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Louisiana Purchase
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Womens Rights Movements
1848-1920
Leaders: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Abby Kelley Foster, Soujourner Truth.
Women fought for their right to vote and equal rights. -
Civil War
President: Abraham Lincoln
April 12, 1861 – May 9, 1865
The Southern United States wanted succssion from the rest of the United States. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Issued on Jan, 1st, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln.
After almost 3 years of civil war, the proclamation claimed that all persons held as slaves will be free. -
Spanish-American War
April 1898 – August 1898 -
World War I
July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918
President: Woodrow Wilson -
The Great Depression
1929-39
President: Herbert Hoover -
World War II
September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945
President: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Generals: Einsenhower, Colonel General Ludwig Beck -
US Civil Rights Movement
1954–68
Key Leader: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Nelson Mandela, W.E.B. Du Bois
Purpose: To end legalized racial segregation. -
9/11/01
Terrorists attacked the twin towers and killed thousands of innocent American peoples. It was the largest terrorist attack to America in history.
