The ten events

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  • American Revolution

    American Revolution
    The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America. They defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War in alliance with France and others.

  • Lousiana Purchase

    Lousiana Purchase
    The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for a total of sixty-eight million francs

  • Civil War

    Civil War
    The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. As a result of the long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina

  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression
    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

  • Jesse Owens

    Jesse Owens
    Jesse Owens was an American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 Games in Berlin. Owens's success at the games represented an unpleasant consternation for Adolf Hitler

  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

    Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
    during the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated the atomic bomb in Hiroshima that cause a lot of casualties

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

  • Assassination of JFK

    Assassination of JFK
    John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza.

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11
    Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969

  • September 11

    September 11
    The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001