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Pilgrims and Plymouth Rock
The Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Harbor in 1620, after first stopping near today's Provincetown. According to oral tradition, Plymouth Rock was the site where William Bradford and other Pilgrims first set foot on land. Bradford was the governor of Plymouth Colony for 30 years and is credited with establishing what we now call Thanksgiving. -
Revolutionary War
The Revolutionary War was a war against Great Britain to proclaim the United States freedom. By 1783, the United States had won and became a new nation. -
Declaration on Independence
In 1776, the colonies proclaimed their freedom in the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson. Here is the most famous quotation from it. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness -
Industrial Revolution
The economy grew, especially in the Northeast. Immigrants poured into U.S. cities. A larger population needed more food, clothing and housing, Factories replacd hand manufacturing with machines that made goods more quickly. -
Louisiana Purchase
President Thomas Jefferson bought louisiana, a large territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Moutains, from france. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of th eUnited States. -
Civil War
The Civil War was a conflict between North and South over the issues of states' rights. The South believed that states had the right to reject federal laws and even to secede, or withdraw, from the Union. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln, a Northerner who hated slavery, was elected president. In response, 11 Southern States seceded. Conflict then broke out over secession, and the Civil War began. Ending in the North winning -
The Telephone
In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output. -
WWI
The world’s first global conflict, the “Great War” pitted the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against the Allied forces of Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan. The introduction of modern technology to warfare resulted in unprecedented carnage and destruction, with more than 9 million soldiers killed by the end of the war in November 1918. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade. Its primary area of impact was on the southern Plains. The northern Plains were not so badly effected, but nonetheless, the drought, windblown dust and agricultural decline were no strangers to the north. In fact the agricultural devastation helped to lengthen the Depression whose effects were felt worldwide. The movement of people on the Plains was also profound. -
WWII
World War II, also called Second World War, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I. -
Cold War
Growing out of post-World War II tensions between the two nations, the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted for much of the second half of the 20th century resulted in mutual suspicions, heightened tensions and a series of international incidents that brought the world’s superpowers to the brink of disaster. -
My Birthday
I was born on this wonderful day. :) -
September 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the 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. Often referred to as 9/11, the attacks resulted in extensive death and destruction, triggering major U.S. ini -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama became the first African American president. He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, and sworn in on January 20, 2009. He and his wife, Michelle, are the proud parents of two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
