history

By ryan.philbates
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    1800s to 2000s

  • Thomas Jefferson becomes the third president

    Thomas Jefferson becomes the third president

  • Louisiana Purchase

    signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty

  • Lewis and Clark

    Lewis and Clark explore the West and find a route to the Pacific Ocean.

  • Mexican War

    Mexican War took place in America's effort to gain California and other territory in Southwest.

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected president

    Abraham Lincoln is elected president

  • Civil War

    The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America

  • Lincoln is assassinated

    Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Washington, DC

  • Civil War Ends

    The war ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

  • purchase of alaska

    the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million.

  • World War I

    U.S. enters World War I, declaring war on Germany

  • World War I ends

    The Treaty of Versailles is signed by Germany and World War I comes to an end

  • National anthem

    The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

  • World War II

    U.S. declares war on Japan

  • D-Day

    The Normandy landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

  • World War II ends

    World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945

  • United Nations

    United Nations is established

  • Hawaii becomes a state

    Hawaii became the 50th state in August, 1959.

  • Vietnam war

    On March 8, 1965, the first American combat troops – the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade – waded ashore at China Beach north of Da Nang.

  • The United States Pulls Out of Vietnam

    In 1969, when the number of U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam had reached 540,000, Nixon announced a modest troop withdrawal.

  • 9/11

    Two planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.