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U.S. History:VHS Summer: Madison Taylor

  • Period: Jul 11, 1492 to

    US History

    Exploring our nations history thru an online course maybe a challenge. But, when I consider all of the sacrifice made for our nation, this could be fun!
  • Colonists landed on Jamestown

    Colonists landed on Jamestown
    British entrepreneurs landed on Jamestown.
  • Signing of the Mayflower compact

    Signing of the Mayflower compact
    The signing of the compact was done aboard the Mayflower.
  • Meeting of the Stamp Act Congress

    Meeting of the Stamp Act Congress
    The stamp act was one of the steps in the Revolution.
  • Melting pot

    Melting pot
    This is Americas Independence day, and America is known as The Melthign pot and thats what an American/America is to me a huge welcoming meltiing pot.
  • Declaration

    Declaration
    Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declartion of Independance between July 11th and the 28th of 1776.
  • Shay's Rebellion

    Shay's Rebellion
    Many laws were being made and people didnt agree so they started to slowly fight back
  • Cotton Demand

    Cotton Demand
    Cotton was in high demand and really expensive to get, until the cotton gin was invented.
  • Jffersonian Era

    Jffersonian Era
    Also known as the second revolution of America.
  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution
    Took more than a century to happen in the U.S it stated in 1790 through 1830.
  • manifest destiny

    This was the Westward expansion, this lasted from 1812 to 1850.
  • Peru's Independence Day

    Peru's Independence Day
    General Jose de San Martin declared Peru's independence.
  • Bolivia's Independence Day

    Bolivia's Independence Day
    Bolivia gained their independence from Spain on August 6th, 1825.
  • Jackson's Inauguration

    Jackson's Inauguration
    Hundreds of people gathered to his Presidential inauguration.
  • The Compromise of 1850

    Congress kept going back and forth arguing, but by september Zach Taylor had died but Millard Filmore stepped up and resolved it.
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    The Kansas- Nebraska act was one of the events that led up to the Civil War.
  • A House Divided

    South Crolina Suceeded from the union.
  • Carpetbaggers

    Carpetbaggers
    Carpetbaggers were Yankees who moved south right after the civil war was over. They wanted to make profits in the south.
  • Reconstrustion Era

    Reconstrustion Era
    March 31st 1877 was the last day of the reconsruction era. But reconstrution freed slaves and in 1867 african american men had the right to vote.
  • "Utopia"

    They were trying to make a perfect place to live, many of these Utopias, were for religious purposes.
  • Slave Codes

    Slave Codes
    Laws and regulations for Slaves made by plantation owners.