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The Founding of Jamestown
The founding of Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
Industrial Revolution
(1760-1820) An era when many good were produced by hand were transitioned to being produced by machinery. -
Boston Massacre
Was a pre-Revolutionary incident growing out of the anger against the British troops sent to Boston to maintain order and to enforce theTownshend Acts. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
These battles in Massachusetts Bay were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence, was a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britian would regard themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states no longer under British rule. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for a total of sixty-eight million francs. -
War of 1812
A war between Britain and the United States, fought between 1812 and 1815. ... It began over alleged British violations of American shipping rights, such as the impressment of seamen — the forcing of American merchant sailors to serve on British ships. -
Abraham Lincoln Elected
Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell. He was the first president from the Republican Party. -
American Civil War
The bloodiest war in American history that started over the South use of Slaves. (April 12, 1861-May 13, 1865) -
Reconstruction Era
The period after the Civil War when the southern states were reorganized into the U.S. (Jan 1, 1863- March 31,1877) -
Gilded Age
The years between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century when greedy, corrupt industrialists, bankers and politicians enjoyed extraordinary wealth and opulence at the expense of the working class. (1870-1900) -
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A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918 -
Women's voting Rights
The 19th Amendment entrenched all American women and declaring for the first time that they, like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. -
Prohibition
Prohibition in United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. -
World War II
A War between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. -
Korean War
A communist government backed by the Soviet Union and China fought a democratic government backed by the US and others in clashes up and down the peninsula for over three years before settling on a border in roughly the same spot as when the war began. (June 25, 1950-July 27, 1953) -
Brown Vs. The Board of Education
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. (Dec 9, 1952-May 17, 1954) -
Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held. (1954-1968) -
Vietnam War
Vietnamese armed resistance to French rule turned into a proxy war of America versus China and Russia that some Americans still don’t admit they lost despite Vietnam now being a single communist state. (November 1, 1955-April 30, 1975) -
Last State to become a member of US
Hawaii became the last and 50th state to join the Union. -
Martin Luther King Assassination
The civil right leader was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray -
Moon Landing
The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. -
First Female Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor became the first Supreme Court Justice after she was appointment from Ronald Reagan. -
First Gulf War
A war that began in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait and ended in 1991 when a coalition of countries led by the United States expelled the Iraqi army from Kuwait and destroyed much of Iraq's military capability. -
Columbine Massacre
A school shooting in Colorado where 2 student went on a killing spree where they killed 13 people and injured 24. -
9/11
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that caused catastrophic damage along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge and levee failure. -
First African American President
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected president of the United States over Senator John McCain of Arizona and became the first African American President. -
Sandy Hook
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six adult staff members
