AMERICAN HISTORY

By Davidcruz67

  • The Scientific Revolution

    Breakthrough by Galileo Galilei telescopic observations, Johanes Kepler elliptical orbits and Issac newton gravity and calculus

  • The devastating thirty years war

    it was a religious war between Catholics and protestant states with in the holy roman empire it involved into a massive 8 million death stuggle

  • English Civil War and restoration

    Overthrow of the monarchy followed by its retorsion

  • Mughal Empire

    The taj mahal was completed followed by Aurangzeb's ascension to power

  • The Great Plague of London

    the great plague of London killed 75,000 people

  • establishment of colonies

    Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn

  • Rise of Russia

    peter the great became tsar starting the modernization of Russia

  • The founding of Georgia

    Georgia was the thirteenth colony

  • The great awakening

    A major religious revival that swept through the colonies

  • The stamp act

    Americans started taxing all paper goods and legal documents ship papers diplomas newspapers pamphlets and playing cards because the money raised was used to pay off war debt

  • The Boston massacre

    The British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonist and killed five people

  • The Boston tea party

    It created tension between great Britten and its American colins with led to the American revolutionary war

  • American revolution

    The thirteen colonies fought for independence resulting in the creation of the United States

  • Independence

    The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of independence

  • Louisiana purchase

    The us acquired Louisiana territory from France doubling the size of the country and opening vast new territories for settlement and trade

  • the Louisiana purchase

    President Thomas Jefferson authorizes purchase of the Louisiana territory from France and almost doubles the size of the United States.

  • the war of 1812

    War between Britain and America lasted for two and half years over trade and naval restrictions.

  • the underground railroad

    A network of secret routes and safe houses to help slaves escape to freedom in the North.

  • Samuel Morse sends his first telegraph message

    This changes the face of communication for the entire world and allows an information to spread more quickly and easily than ever before

  • Abraham Lincoln elected President

    Shortly after his election, the Confederate States secede from the Union, starting the Civil War

  • July 1-3 - Battle of Gettysburg

    Largest Civil War Battles and turning point of the war, leading to a Union victory.

  • President Lincoln is assassinated

    Lincoln was assassinated 5 days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee (after the Civil War ended)