us history

By Cnewgent1

  • 1607 James town founded

    first permanent settlement

  • Boston tea party

    people throw tea in to protest taxes

  • Lexington and concord

    big war battles in revolutionary war

  • declaration of independence

    broke away from England

  • us constitution written

    the base of our country was written

  • George Washington becomes first president

  • bill of rights ratified

  • Louisiana purchase

  • Lewis and Clark expedition begins

  • war of 1812 bgins

  • Missouri compromise

  • Indian removal act

  • Texas declares independence from Mexico

  • Mexican American war starts

  • Mexican American war ends

  • California gold rush

  • Dred Scott decision

  • civil war begins

  • homestead act passed

  • emancipation proclamation

  • civil war ends

  • transcontinental raiload

  • battle of little bighorn

  • reconstruction ends

  • Plessy v. Ferguson descision

  • Spanish American war

  • president McKinley assassinated

  • world war 1 begins

  • us enters world war one

  • women gain right to vote

  • st valentines day massacre

  • stock market crash

  • pearl barbor

  • us joins ww2

  • ww2 ends

  • brown vs board

  • Montgomery bus boycott

  • homestead act passed

  • martin Luther king Jr i have a dream

  • civil rights act passed

  • apollo 11 moon landing

  • Roe vs Wade decision

  • president Nixon resigns

  • fall of berlin wall

  • gulf war begins

  • 9/11

  • iraq war begins

  • Obama first African American president

  • covid

  • us capitol riot

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