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Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock 1500's
Plymouth Colony was America's first Puritan settlement and it was set up by the English Separatist Puritans in Dec 1620. The Pilgrims left England to have more religious freedom or to find a better life. After a period in Holland they set sail from Plymouth, England on sep 16 1620, aboard the Mayflower and its 102 passengers spending 65 days at sea. -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. -
Revolutionary War
The conflict from growing tensions between residents of Great Britian's 13 North American colonies and colonial governement. conflict between British troops and militiamen in Lexington and Concord in Apr 1775 kicked off the armed conflict and by the next summer the rebels were a full scale war for thier inderpendence. -
Declaration on Independence
When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in Apr 1775. The Americans were ffighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown. By the next summer the Revolutionary War started. -
The American Revolution
The Ameircan Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1775 during whcih colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy. -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchse was a land deal between the U.S. and France, in which the U.S. wanted about 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Civil War
The American Civil War was widely known in the U.S. as the Civil War. The Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865 to know the survival of the Union or Independence for Confederacy. -
World War I
World War I is also known as the First World War or the Great War and it was the Global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 Nov 1918. -
Great Depression
The Great depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. The timing of the Great Depression was different across nations and in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a severe drought that hit the midwestern and soouthern plains. As the crops die , the 'balck blizzard' begins. -
World War II
World War II came two decades after the last great global conflict. The second World War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history and it it killed more than 50 million soldiers. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. -
Veitnam War
The Vietnam War was about the spread of communism. America entered the Vietnam War mainly because it felt threatened by Communism's spread into democratic South Vietnam, and has sworn to defend democracy. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the first day for a human to walk on the moon and study the moon. -
Septerber 11, 2001
September 11, 2001 also as 9/11.It is the day that al-Qaeda terrorist group attacked the twin towers on the mouring of Tuesday Sep 11, 2001.
