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The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. The conflict energized anti-Britain sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution. -
The American Revolution
The American Revolution was a time when the British colonists in America rebelled against the rule of Great Britain. There were many battles fought and the colonies gained their freedom and became the independent country of the United States. The American Revolutionary War lasted from 1775 until 1783. -
Women’s Suffrage
The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States.The campaign for women’s suffrage began in earnest in the decades before the Civil War. Starting in 1910, some states in the West began to extend the vote to women for the first time in almost 20 years. On November 2, 1920 more than 8 million women across the United States voted in elections for the first time. -
Civil War
The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion. Although the cost of the Civil War was high, it was one of the bloodiest wars ever fought on American soil, the result was the abolishment of slavery. The War ended in Confederate surrender in 1865. The conflict was the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil. -
President Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Proclamation of Emancipation was a presidential proclamation and an executive order issued by the president of the United States,Abraham Lincoln. The executive order states that as of January 01,1863 slaves in states in rebellious would be free.Lincoln won criticism from many,the stock market went down,many white soldiers deserted from the Union Army because they did not want fight to free slaves. -
Chinese Exclution Act
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year prohibition on Chinese labor immigration. The Chinese themselves remained unqualified for citizenship until 1943. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
On March 25, 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and 23 men who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, falling or jumping. The tragedy led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of factory workers. -
The WWI
The United States was neutral when the war started. World War I took place in Europe starting in July 28, 1914 and ending in November 11, 1918. In May 1915, the Lusitania ship was sunk by a German U-boat and 128 American citizens were killed being one of the reasons for the U.S. to enter the war being part of the Allies. In April 6, 1917, tow days after the U.S. senate voted to declare war against Germany, the United States officially entered World War I. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in US history. It began in 1929 and did not abate until the end of the 1930s. The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. By 1933, unemployment was at 25 percent and more than 5,000 banks had gone out of business. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II. The controversial creation and eventual use of the atomic bomb engaged some of the world’s leading scientific minds, as well as the U.S. military. -
The WWII
World War II was the largest armed conflict in human history. Causing an estimated 50 million military and civilian deaths, including those of 6 million Jews. The war began with Nazi Germany's attack on Poland in September 1939. World War 2 ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. On 8 May 1945, the Allies accepted Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor: US Enters World War II
On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The surprise attack by some 350 Japanese aircraft sunk eighteen US naval vessels, including eight battleships, destroyed 300 US aircraft, and killed 2,403 men. Japan’s allies, Germany and Italy, declared war on the United States on December 11. The United States responded in kind, and therefore entered World War II. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states and the United States with its allies after World War II.The term "cold" is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, but they each supported major regional conflicts known as proxy wars.In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger while she was seated in the "colored section" of a Montgomery city bus. Parks helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States. Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Rosa Parks became a nationally recognized symbol of dignity and strength for ending racial segregation. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3 million people were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians.Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975. -
March in Washington
The March in Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963. Many people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The event aimed to draw attention to continuing difficulties and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. -
John F. Kennedy Assassination
John F Kennedy began the space race and the consolidation of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, as well as the first actions of his country in the Vietnam War. The 35th president of the United States was murdered in Dallas, Texas. He was the fourth president of EE. UU Murdered and the eighth who died in the exercise of his functions. -
Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, an event that sent shock waves reverberating around the world.King has remained the most widely known African-American leader of his era, and the most public face of the civil rights movement, along with its most eloquent voice.His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among black Americans,as well as a period of national. -
Moon Landing
On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission occurred eight years after President John F. Kennedy (1917-63)announced a national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Apollo 11 was one of the greatest achievements of the humanity. Americans were the firts and only nation to have walked on the moon. -
September 11 Attacks
They were a series of four terrorist attacks coordinated by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States. Two of the planes flew to the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside of Washington, DC, and the fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks killed 2,996 people and injured more than 6,000.In addition, people died of cancer and respiratory diseases related to September 11 years after the attacks.
