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The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement that was adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House on July 4th, 1776. Which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and were no longer under the British rule. -
The Louisiana Purchase
This was when Nepolian sold a huge area of France to Thomas Jefferson. It gave the United States control of the Mississippi River, and it doubled the size of the U.S. -
Invention of the Train
This is when the first train was created. -
Lewis and Clark Journey
The Lewis and Clark journey was when Lewis and Clark were sent out to explore the land that the U.S. inherited. They had to classify new plant and animal species, and they also had to create a new map for the United States. -
Invention of the Steamboat
This is when the first steamboat was created. -
The Texas Revolution
This was when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the Mexican government. -
Invention of the Telegraph
This is when the telegraph was first created. -
The Trail of Tears
The time of The Trail of Tears was when many Native Americans were forcefully removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River. -
Donner Party
The Donner Party were colonists that were travelling but their transportation method broke. It soon became winter and they ran out of all of their food. They became cannibals so that they could survive. -
The California Gold Rush
This was when James W. Marshall discovered a piece of gold in California. Everybody wanted to get gold so that they could gain money from it, so they went to California to try to find it. -
Invention of the Telephone
This is when the very first telephone was created. -
Invention of the Electric Light Bulb
This is when the first electric light bulb was created. -
Invention of the Automobile
This is when the first automobile was created. -
Invention of the Radio
This is when the first radio was invented. -
Invention of the Airplane
This is when the airplane was first created. -
Invention of the Television
This is when the television was created. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It started after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. When the Great Depression got to the lowest point, 15 million Americans were unemployed and almost half of the country's banks had failed. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust, or Shoah, was a genocide in which six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis -
The Berlin Wall
During the years of the Cold War, the Berlin was was built so it encircled all of West Berlin. It was built to divide East and West Berlin.The wall caused a crisis in the U.S. soviet bloc relations, and the wall became a symbol for the Cold War. -
Invention of the Apple 2 Computer
This is when the first Apple 2 Computer was created. -
Invention of the Atari 2600
This is when the Atari 2600 was created. -
Invention of the VCR
This was when the first VCR was created. -
9/11
This is the day that a terrorist attack happened; planes flew into the Twin Towers, causing massive amounts of destruction. -
Sarah's Birthday
The day I was born!
