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Oct 31, 1492
christopher columbus "discovers " america
During his first voyage in 1492, instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, Columbus landed in the Bahamas archipelago. -
Sep 28, 1497
John Cabot claims North America for England
was an Italian navigator and explorer whose discovery of parts of North America. he was first European encounter with the continent of North America since the Norse Vikings -
Sep 1, 1534
Jacques Cartier explores the Great Lakes and the the St. Lawrence River
He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River -
Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh
The Roanoke Colony was financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh and carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cousin. -
Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown
Captain John Smith Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania and friend Mózes Székely. -
Twenty slaves in Virginia Africans brought to Jamestown are the first slaves imported into Britain’s North American colonies. Like indentured servants, they were probably freed after a fixed period of service.
The history of slavery covers slave systems in historical perspective in which one human being is legally the property of another, can be bought or sold, is not allowed to escape and must work for the owner without any choice involved. As Drescher (2009) argues, "The most crucial and frequently utilized aspect of the condition is a communally recognized right by some individuals to possess, buy, sell, discipline, transport, liberate, or otherwise dispose of the bodies and behavior of other indiv -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, later together known to history as the Pilgrims, who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. -
First Public School (Boston Latin School)
It is the oldest school in America. The old wooden verison was torn down but but the school was restarted in other areas. -
Colonial North America's slave trade begins when the first American slave carrier, Desire, is built and launched in Massachusetts.
The Atlantic slave trade, also known as the trans-atlantic slave trade, refers to the trade in slaves that took place across the Atlantic ocean from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth centuries. The vast majority of slaves involved in the Atlantic trade were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent, who were sold by African slave dealers to European traders, who transported them to the colonies in North and South America. -
English Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights was passed by Parliament on 16 December 1689.[2] It was a re-statement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689 (or 1688 by Old Style dating), inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England. -
Ben Franklin - Lightning Rod
A lightning rod or lightning conductor is a metal rod or conductor mounted on top of a building and electrically connected to the ground through a wire, to protect the building in the event of lightning. -
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French & Indian War
The French and Indian War was the American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America it lasted from 1754 to 1763. -
Proclamation of 1763 by King George III
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. -
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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. -
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Revolution
The war was between great britten and the 13 colonies. it eventally became global. -
Vermont is 1st colony to free all slaves.
Slavery in the United States was a form of slave labor which existed as a legal institution in North America for more than a century before the founding of the United States in 1776, and continued mostly in the South until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865 following the American Civil War. -
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1781 - 1787 Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederationwas an agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution -
Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. -
Delaware
Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. -
Delaware
Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, to the east by New Jersey and to the north by Pennsylvania. -
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to the east -
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. As of the United States 2010 Census[update], its population was 8,791,894 -
Georgia
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1788, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. -
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. -
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. -
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east -
South Carolina
South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. -
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America -
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States -
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. -
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George Washington
George Washington was the first president of the United States his nickname was Father of his Country. -
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the Southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. -
1790 population
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island was a leader in the American Revolutionary movement. Having the greatest degree of self-rule, it had the most to lose from the efforts of England after 1763 to increase her supervision and control over her American colonies. -
Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, 9,250 square miles (24,000 km2), and 45th in total area. -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, which limit the power of the U.S. federal government. -
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region -
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region -
- Eli Whitney - Cotton Gin
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job formerly performed by hand. -
11th Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was passed by the Congress on March 4, 1794, and was ratified on February 7, 1795, deals with each state's sovereign immunity. -
Tennessee
Tennessee eastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population -
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John Adams
John graduated from from Harvard and his nickname was Atlas of independence. He was our second president of the Untied States. -
1800 population
5.3 million -
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Tomas Jefferson
Tomas was our third president and his nickname was Man of the People. -
Ohio
On February 19, 1803, President Jefferson signed an act of Congress that approved Ohio's boundaries and constitution -
12th Amendment
The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the President and Vice President. -
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James Madison
His religon was Episcopalian and he was a laywer before he become the president of the United States. -
1810 - population
7.2 million -
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War of 1812
This war started on 1812. Thats how it got its name the war of 1812. -
Louisiana
The District of Louisiana was created by the Act of April 8, 1812, effective upon the admission of Louisiana as a State on April 30, 1812. -
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. -
U of M- 1817 - Founded in Detroit, Moved to Ann Arbor in 1837
Michigan was started in 1817 and was in Detroit, but it moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 and thats where it is still today. -
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James Monroe
His nickname was The Last Cocked Hat and he was the 5th president of the Untied States. -
Mississippi
The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 7, 1798, until December 10, 1817, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Mississippi -
Illinois
The Territory of Illinois was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 1, 1809, until December 3, 1818, when the southern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Illinois. -
Alabama
The Territory of Alabama was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 15, 1817, until December 14, 1819, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Alabama. -
1820 population
- 9.6 million
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Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. -
Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States,[6] bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska -
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John Quincy Adams
His nickname was Old Man Eloquent and he was the 6th president of the Untied States. -
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Andrew Jackson
His nickname was Old Hickory.He was our president but had no formal education. -
Graham Cracker
The graham cracker also graham wafer) was developed in 1829 in Bound Brook, New Jersey, by Presbyterian minister Rev. Sylvester Graham. Though called a cracker, it is sweet rather than salty and so it is a cookie—similar to the British digestive biscuit -
1830 population
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- Indian Removal Act (1838 Trail of Tears)
The Trail of Tears is a name given to the relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. -
Oberlin College
It was the college to accept women into there collage.back then women were appected to work in the house or on the gardens but Oberlin college was the first to take women into their college also. -
Oberlin College -
Oberlin College was the first school to accept blacks into there college. the colleges modo was "learning and labor." -
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1835 - 1836 Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution was in 1835 and 1836 between the people who were living in Texas and the people living in Mexico. It was a war to make Texas independent from Mexico. -
Arkansas
Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians -
Michigan
Michigan was the twenty-sixth state to enter into the union, on Jan. 26, 1837. It is known for its interesting geographical location, bordering four of the five Great Lakes -
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Martin Van Buren
His father was Abraham Van Buren.
His mother was Maria Hoes Van Buren. -
Vulcanized Rubber - Charles Goodyear
Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an American inventor who developed a process to vulcanize rubber in 1839 -- a method that he perfected while living and working in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1844, and for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844 -
1840 population
17 million -
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William Henry Harrison
He did a speach outside on a very cold day caught pneumonia and died one month later. -
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John Tyler
John was born on March 29, 1790, in Greenway, Virginia and he died on January 18, 1862, in Richmond, Virginia. -
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts -
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James Knox Polk
He was the 11th president of the United States. -
Texas
Texas was the twenty-eighth state to enter into the union and was admitted on December 29, 1845. Texas is the second largest in population after California and has the second largest land-area after Alaska. -
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Mexican American War
this was the war to get Texas from mexico and to become apart of the United States. -
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". -
Doughnut
A doughnut or donut is a fried dough food and is popular in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet (or occasionally savory) snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty outlets. -
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Zachary Taylor
He was the 12th president of the United States and he was only president for a year. -
1850 population
23 million -
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Millard Fillmore
his nickname was he American Louis Philippe and he was the 13th president of the USA. -
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Franklin Pierce
He was the 14th president of the United States. -
Michigan State
Michigan State started in 1855 and it is a college in Landsing. -
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James Buchanan
his nickname was Old Buck and he was the 15th president of the United States. -
Pencil Eraser - Hymen Lipman
An eraser (US) or rubber (UK) is an article of stationery that is used for rubbing out pencil markings. Erasers have a rubbery consistency and are often white or pink, although modern materials allow them to be made in any color. -
1860 population
31.4 million -
Repeating Rifle - Benjamin Tyler Henry
The original Henry rifle was a .44 caliber rimfire, lever-action, breech-loading rifle designed by Benjamin Tyler Henry in the late 1850s. The Henry rifle was an improved version of the earlier Volcanic Repeating rifle -
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American Civil War
This war was our country againest our country. It was the north who wanted to free the slaves vs. the south who didnt want to free them. -
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham freed all the slaves in the Untied States and his nickname was Honest Abe, -
Jelly Bean - William Schrafft
elly beans are a small bean-shaped type of confectionery with a hard candy shell and a gummy interior which come in a wide variety of flavors. The confection is primarily made of sugar. -
Breakfast Cereal - James Caleb Jackson
James Caleb Jackson (March 28, 1811–1895) was the inventor of the first dry, whole grain breakfast cereal which he called granula. -
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Andrew Johnson
He was the 17th president of the Untied States. -
13th Amendment - Abolition of Slavery
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, passed by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, Secretary of State William H. Seward, in a proclamation, declared it to have been adopted. It was the first of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
14th Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
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Ulysses Simpson Grant
He was a Republican and he was a solider before becoming the president. -
1870 population
- 38.6 million
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15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870 -
African Americans’ Right to Vote
African-American history is the portion of American history that specifically discusses the African American or Black American ethnic group in the United States. Most African Americans are the descendants of captive Africans held in the United States from 1619 to 1865. -
1873 - Jeans - Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss born Löb Strauß, German pronunciation February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California. -
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Rutherford was the 19th president of the Untied States of America. -
1877- Toilet Paper- Seth Wheeler
Toilet paper is a soft paper product (tissue paper) used to maintain personal hygiene after human defecation or urination. However, it can also be used for other purposes such as blowing one's nose when one has a cold or absorbing common spills around the house, -
1879 - Light Bulb - Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial research laboratory. -
1880 population
50.1 million -
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James Abram Garfield
On July 2, shot by Charles Julius Guiteau. Garfield died of blood poisoning on September 19. -
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Chester Alan Arthur
Chester was the 21st president of the United States. -
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Grover Cleveland
He was the 22nd president and the 24th president and his nickname was the Veto President. -
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Benjamin Harrison
He was the 23rd president of the USA. His nickname was little ben. -
1890 population
- 62.9 million
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1890 - Stop Sign - William Phelps Eno
William Phelps Eno (June 3, 1858-December 3, 1945) was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the "Father of traffic safety", despite never having learned to drive a car himself. -
CMU
CMU also known as Central Michigan University is one of the nation's 100 largest public universities. -
Radio - Nikola Tesla
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light.[1] Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space. -
1894- Corn Flakes- Will Keith Kellogg
William Phelps Eno (June 3, 1858-December 3, 1945) was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the "Father of traffic safety", despite never having learned to drive a car himself. -
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William McKinley
his nickname was Idol of Ohio and he was the 25th president of the United States -
1900 population
76.2 million -
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Theodore Roosevelt
His nickname was Teddy and he was the 16th president of the Untied States. -
1901 - Assembly Line - Henry Ford
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. -
Car - Oldsmobile - Ransom E. Olds
An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods.[3] -
Teddy Bear - Morris Michtom
The teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear. They are usually stuffed with soft, white cotton and have smooth and soft fur. It is an enduring form of a stuffed animal in many countries, often serving the purpose of entertaining children. In recent times, some teddy bears have become collector's items.[1] -
1904 - Banana Split - David Strickler
A banana split is an ice cream-based dessert. In its classic form it is served in a long dish called a boat. A banana is cut in half lengthwise (hence the split) and laid in the dish. There are many variations, but the classic banana split is made with scoops of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream served in a row between the split banana. -
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William Howard Taft
he was the 27th president of the Untied States. -
1910 population
- 92.2 million
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16th Amendment (Income Tax)
The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. -
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Woodrow Wilson
His nickname was Schoolmaster in Politics and he was the 18th president of the Untied States. -
17th Amendment (direct election of United States Senators by popular vote)
The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. -
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World War 1
World War one was the first war faught by the entier world and it lasted 4 whole years. -
18th Amendment (prohibits alcohol)
Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. -
1920 population
- 106 million
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19th Amendment - Women’s Right to Vote
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. -
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Warren Gamaliel Harding
He was the 29th president of the Untied States. -
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Calvin Coolidge
He was the 30th president of the United States and his nickname was Silent Cal. -
Kool Aid
Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in Hastings, Nebraska, United States. All of his experiments took place in his mother's kitchen.[1] Its predecessor was a liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack. To reduce shipping costs, in 1927, Perkins discovered a way to remove the liquid from Fruit Smack, leaving only a powder. -
1927- Television - Philo T. Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer.[2] Although he made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television, he is perhaps best known for inventing the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the "image dissector", the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system, and for being the first person to demonstrate such a system t -
Bubble Gum - Walter Diemer “Double Bubble”
n 1928, Walter Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, was experimenting with new gum recipes. One recipe was found to be less sticky than regular chewing gum, and stretched more easily. -
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Herbert Clark Hoover
He was the 31st president of the United States -
1930 population
- 123 million
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1931 - Electric Guitar - George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker, is an electric and bass guitar manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California. In 1932, the company became the world's first to produce electric guitars and continues to produce a range of electric and bass guitars to this day.[ -
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
His nickname is FDR and he was a democrat. -
21st Amendment - Repeal 18th amendment
The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition. It was ratified on December 5, 1933. -
Harvard College, the first institute for higher education in a north Americancolony, established at Cambridge in Massachusetts
The college was named for its first donor, the Reverend John Harvard. it was the first college in America. -
Soft Serve Ice Cream
Over Memorial Day weekend of 1934, Tom Carvel, the founder of the Carvel brand and franchise, suffered a flat tire in his ice cream truck in Hartsdale, New York--so he pulled into a parking lot next to a pottery store and began selling his melting ice cream to vacationers driving by. -
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World War 2
This was the second global conflict around the world it lasted 6 years. It started when poland was invaded by germany. -
1940 population
- 132 million
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Harry S. Truman
He was the 33rd president of the United States. -
Video Game
A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device,[1] but following popularization of the term "video game", it now implies any type of display device. -
1948 - Cable TV -
Cable television in the United States is a common form of television delivery, generally by subscription. Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948, with subscription services in 1949. Data by SNL Kagan shows that as of 2006 about 58.4% of all American homes subscribe to basic cable television services. Most cable viewers in the US are in the suburbs and tend to be middle class;[1] cable television is less common in low income, inner city, and rural areas. -
1950 poulation
- 151 million
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Korean War
This war started whwen the two Koreas spreated to become north and south Korea -
22nd Amendment - 2 term limit for President.
The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for the President of the United States. -
1952 - Barcode
the first patent for a bar code type product (US Patent #2,612,994) was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952. The Woodland and Silver bar code can be described as a "bull's eye" symbol, made up of a series of concentric circles. -
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Dwight David Eisenhower
His nickname was Ike and he was the 34th president of the Untied States. -
Video Tape
A videotape is a recording of images and sounds on to magnetic tape as opposed to film stock or random access digital media. Videotapes are also used for storing scientific or medical data, such as the data produced by an electrocardiogram. In most cases, a helical scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data in two dimensions, because video signals have a very high bandwidth, and static heads would require extremely high tape speeds. -
1960 population
- 179.3 million
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Vietnam War
The war started because communism was seeking to expand in Vietnam in the same way it had attempted to expand in Korea, -
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
He was shot down and killed on Nov, 22 1963. He was the 35th president of the Untied States. -
23rd Amendment - Wash. D.C. representation
The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution permits citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President. -
1963 - Computer Mouse
In computing, a mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of an object held under one of the user's hands, with one or more buttons. It sometimes features other elements, such as "wheels", which allow the user to perform various system-dependent operations, or extra buttons or features that can add more control or dimensional input. -
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
He was the 36th president of the Untied States and his nickname was LBJ -
24th Amendment - poll taxes illegal
The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Buffalo Wings
A Buffalo wing, hot wing or wing is a chicken wing section (drumette or flat) that is traditionally fried unbreaded and then coated in sauce. Classic Buffalo-style chicken wing sauce is composed of a vinegar-based cayenne pepper hot sauce and butter.[1] Buffalo wings are traditionally served with celery sticks and blue cheese dressing or ranch dressing. -
CD
The Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage (CD-ROM), write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video Compact Discs (VCD), Super Video Compact Discs (SVCD), PhotoCD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced CD. Audio CDs and audio CD players have been commercially available since October 1982. -
1965 - Minicomputer ($18,000!)
The 12-bit PDP-8 was the first successful commercial minicomputer, produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the 1960s. DEC introduced it on 22 March 1965, and sold more than 50,000 systems, the most of any computer up to that date.[1] It was the first widely sold computer in the DEC PDP series of computers (the PDP-5 was not originally intended to be a general-purpose computer). -
25th Amendment - presidential succession
The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities -
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Richard Milhous Nixon
He was 37th president of the Untied States and he was a Republican. -
1970 population
- 203 million
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26th Amendment - 18 as voting age
The Twenty-sixth Amendmet to the United States Constitution limited the minimum voting age to no more than 18. -
1971 - Email
The first email transmission was sent in 1971. Ray Tomlinson, the engineer behind ARPANET's email system and the man who came up with using the @ sign for email, said that the first email he sent was something insignificant. -
Cell Phone
A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone and a hand phone) allows calls into the public switched telephone system over a radio link. Early mobile phones were usually bulky and permanently installed in vehicles; they provided limited service because only a few frequencies were available for a geographic area. -
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Gerald Rudolph Ford
He was the 38th president and his nickname was Jerry. -
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James Earl Carter, Jr
he was the 39th president of the United States. -
1980 population
- 226.5 million
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
His nickname was Dutch and he was the 40th president of the Untied Stats of America. -
1981 - Laptop
It is a little hard to determine what was the first portable or laptop computer, the first portable computers did not look like the book-sized and folding laptops that we are familiar with today, however, they were both portable and lapable, and lead to the development of notebook style laptops. -
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
The Nintendo Entertainment System (also abbreviated as NES or simply called Nintendo) is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987. -
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George Herbert Walker Bush
Later his son became president and his nickname was Poppy, He was the 41st president of the United States. -
1990 population
248.7 million -
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Persian Gulf War
This all started over oil and how we went in to attack because we werent getting as much to us anymore. -
27th Amendment - Congress salary changes take place in next term.
The Twenty-seventh Amendment prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives. -
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William Jefferson Clinton
His nickname is Bill and he was the 42nd president of the Untied States. -
2000 population
- 281.4 million
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George Walker Bush
His nickname was "W" and he was the 43rd president of the United States. He was president for 8 years. -
2001 - iPod
iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc.. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle. -
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Invasion of Iraq
This war is still going on today. It all started because we are trying to getting freedom for Iraq. The USA soilders arew still there. -
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US Invasion of Afghanistan
This war started after Ahmad Shah Massoud made the plan to attack the twin tower which they did sucessfully and this war is still going on today. -
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Barack Hussein Obama
Barack was the first african american president of the United State and he was born in Hawaii. -
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20th amendment jan. 20 inaugural
The inauguration of the President of the United States occurs upon the commencement of a new term of a President of the United States. -
Machine Gun - Richard Gatling
The Gatling gun is one of the best known early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun. It is well known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat. -
1886 - Coca-Cola - John S. Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was a Confederate veteran and an American druggist, and is best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola.
