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Started in and 1754 and ended 1763. This was an ongoing battle between the French and British to see who would control the eastern North America. in 1759 The British won a battle that would give them control of the Norther states we have today.
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This was the transition of handmade goods to machine made products. This was the start of heavily ready product at a cheaper cost and a fasten rate.
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With the start of the Industrial revolution factories would be they way everything was made. Factories made mass production possible in the U.S. during this time period.
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on December 16th a group of colonial patriots dumped tea crates off of ships in Boston harbor. This was in protest to the British tea tax.
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This was the war Between the 13 Colonies and Great Britain. The colonies felt like they were not being treated as the should and it was time to fight back and become their own country.
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In 1777 the Continental congress would adopt the Articles of Confederation. This would become the first Constitution of the U.S. In 1787 12 delegates meet and draft the final constitution.
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In 1804 Lewis and Clark left for St. Louis, Mo. The left for an expedition to explore the west and to find a way to the Pacific Ocean.
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This was an effort to keep balance between free states and slave states. Maine would become a free state so Missouri could be a slave state and keep balance.
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Manifest Destiny was the start of the expansion of the United states. This was the start of western settlement, Native American removal and the war against Mexico.
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Also know as Border war, This was a series of violent confrontation between slave states and free states. The fight was to win Kansas to be a free state or slave state help either the north or south with voting power.
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This was a war based on slavery. The southern slave states would fight the northern free states and the expansion of slavery into western states. After years of fights and many lives lost the North would win, getting rid of slavery in the U.S.
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With the Union winning the Civil war, this gave some 4 million slaves freedom. The process of rebuilding the south would help the freed slaves learn to live a life on their own.
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President Lincoln would be murdered by John Wilkes Booth. He was shot and killed at fords theater. It was over the southern loss of slavery.
