History of the Americas

By Wildseer
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus "discovers" the Americas

  • Virginia Dare born

    on Roanoke island

  • The Settlement of Jamestown is founded

  • English Puritan stockholders pledged to emigrate to New England

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    The French and Indian war

    The American theater of the wider conflict: The Seven Years' War. It wasn't seven years because apparently, people can't count. This has happened too many times, I will not stand for it.

  • The Stamp Act is passed

  • Patrick Henry takes his seat for the first time in The Virginia House of Burgesses

  • Declaration of rights (british imposed)

  • The Stamp Act goes into effect

  • The Stamp act is repealed

  • Parliament passes the Quartering Act

  • The Townshend Acts goes into effect

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    John Dickinson writes "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania"

  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    Hey, King George! What's the opposite of tea? YEET!
    -Blue, Historian of Overly Sarcastic Productions

  • Battle of Lexington & Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The battle of Yorktown

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    The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The invention of the telegraph

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    The Trail of Tears

  • The Panic of 1837

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    The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

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    13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

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    The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

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    The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • Butch Cassidy (my great something uncle) proposes a train robber's syndicate

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    The Spanish-American War

    Let's blame the Main on Spain!
    -Oversimplified

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Henry Ford introduced the model T car

  • The 369th Infantry Regiment was constituted

    The 369th Infantry Regiment was constituted

  • The Zimmerman Telegram is intercepted

  • The Armistice is signed

    at 11:00 am

  • The 19th Amendment

  • Charles Lindenbergh's flight

  • Wall Street crash of 1929

    also known as "Black Thursday"
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    The New Deal

  • Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor

  • American actor and director Robert Redford is born

  • The Munich Agreement

    The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia (we could've avoided thisss!!!!)
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    The invasion of Poland

    The invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, and Polish Defensive War of 1939, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. At the time, the U.S. was a neutral country in World War II.

  • D-Day

    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.

  • The formation of United Nations

    The United Nations is a global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the articulated mission of maintaining international peace and security

  • Hiroshima

    On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during World War II. The aerial bombings killed 150,000 to 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.

  • Nagasaki

    On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during World War II. The aerial bombings killed 150,000 to 246,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.

  • The Long Telegram

  • The formation of NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance between 32 member states—30 in Europe and 2 in North America. Founded in the aftermath of World War II, NATO was established with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949.

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

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    The Korean War

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    Brown v Board of Education

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    The Vietnam War

    we lost this one. we lost this one HARD.

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

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    The invention of the Internet

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

    go look up Wendigoon's videos on this please, so worth your time

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon's resignation

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • 9/11

  • American civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson died at age 104

  • American playwright, screenwriter, and TV writer Neil Simon died at age 91

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    Covid-19 Pandemic