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1865 BCE
The American Civil War 4
The Confederate army leader, surrendered the Union army leader. More than 600.000 Americans died. The slaves were free and the country was one nation. -
1864 BCE
The American Civil War 3
Thousands of people were dead. Both the people in the north and the south were suffrering. The Confederates were losing. -
1861 BCE
The American Civil War 2
The south had got their Confederacy. It had got 11 states. They thinked there were a different nation from the Union in the nort. Confederate soldiers attacked a Union fort called Fort Sumter -
1860 BCE
The American Civil War
The people in the north lived in towns, but in the south, they lived on plantation and own slaves. The plantation owners wanted to keep their slaves, but the people in the north want to abolish slavery. They say it was cruel. -
1848 BCE
The Expansion 2
The country extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean -
1803 BCE
The Expansion
The French Emperor Napoleon offered to sell the land to the United States for $15 million -
1783 BCE
The Name
In the end, they defeated the British and signed the Treaty of Paris. They called their new nation the United States of America -
Period: 1754 BCE to 1763 BCE
The War
The British army and the colonists fought the French over land in North America. The British won the war and got some of the French land -
1750 BCE
The Colonies
The British had 13 colonies on the east coast of North America and about two and a half million colonist lived there -
The Voyage of the Mayflower
A group of 102 pilgrims sailed fron England to America on the ship the Mayflower -
The Land in the Distance
The pilgrims saw land in the distance. They were very excited because their journey was near the end -
In The Land
The pilgrims met a Native American for the first time and he introduced them to his tribe -
The Independence
The colonies declared independence from Great Britain. Their leaders published the Declaration of Independence on this date -
The First Indian Territory
The US Government crated the first Indian territory in the area now called Oklahma