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Columbus led his three ships out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492. And he landed in the Bahamas and called it The New World.
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It is a historic site in east Virginia and it has ruins from the first permanent English settlement in North America. It was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh.
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This war was between two colonies, British America and New France. The French in Canada tried moving into Ohio area.
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The war ended with England getting Canada from the French and Florida from Spain.
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The Boston Tea Party was a protest against English taxes.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord was the first battale of the American Revolutionary War.
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It is written by Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. stating all the reasons why the collinas wanted to break away from england king george.
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It was the most important battle led by George Washington. That was the first battle that they won against Britain. And after that it boosted morale for the colonists.
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Representatives from the 13 colonies met to decide on the government structure.
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The constitution was ratified when Rhode Island signed it.
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It was invented by Eli Whitney. It made it easier to seperate the seeds from the cotton.
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They were passed by federalist congress and signed into law by President Adams. So that they could deport foreigners and make it harder for new imigrants to vote.
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The U.S. bought 828,000,000 square miles, from France. It doubled the size of the U.S. and was from the Canadian to the Mexico border.
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This was a war on the ocean between the U.S. and Great Britain. It was to improve sea trade.
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It allowed missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state. Keeping the representative numbers even.
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It was a rematch between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams from the 1824 election. Jackson's election started democratic dominance. It was his second time beating Adams in an election.
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This is when Andrew Jackson signed the Indian removal act that forcefd the native amaricans out of the south east into Indian taritory.
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It was a financial crisis caused by Jacksons war on banks and lead to the great depretion.
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It ended
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It was invited by Samual Morse. Morse code was named after the inventer. For the first time you could comunicate from long distances.
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It was the first conflict on foreign land. We got California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. Mexico lost 1/3 of its land. It was manifest destiny to expand the U.S. to the pasific.
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The war ended
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It was first patented by Alexander Gram Bell. It changed house people comunicated.
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Ended
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They abolished slave trade in Washington DC and amended the fugitive slave act and California was made a free state and Utah was made a territory.
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This is what started the civil war. when the confederates attacked and captured fort sumter in south Carolina.
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Executive order by president lincoln that freed all the slaves.
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Abolished slavery.
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This was the end of the Civil War. When general Lee serendered to General Grant.
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Abraham Lincoln was at Fords Theater when John Wilkes Booth shot him from behind.
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It forbids stsates from restricting rights of U.S. citizens.
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He was the first president to be impeached.
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States can not deny voting by a persons race/color.
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It was owned by Rockefeller, he controlled 90 to 95 percent of all the oil production in the U.S.
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Thomas Edison was the inventor of the light bulb. And it changed how people lived and worked because now they could work after dark.
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It was a railroad strike. It severely disrupted the economy. It led to labor law changes. The steel company locked out their workers and it lead to some workers dying.
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The U.S. got Hawaii, Guam, Porto Rico, and the Philippines in this war. It was a war between Spain and the U.S. in Cuba.
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He started national parks like Mount Rushmore. He was a very popular president.
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The Wright brothers flew their first plane and the way people traviled has changed ever since.