hey everyone! I already posted them up earlier, so i thought i'd post them again so everyone can see them when the blog is open. The test is on December 11. I know that I'm not the one in charge of History, but seeing I already posted it, I think it's ok. Due dates for art will be put up tomorrow as with more instructions.
The new dates are in bold. the other ones are not.
1775A - April 16-18 Battle of Lexington and Concord
1776A - July 4 - Second Continential Congress Adopts Declaration of Independence
1798A - George Washington sworn in as first president
1800A - Washington DC becomes nation's new capital
1802A - Military Academy at West Point established
1803A - April 30 - Louisiana Purchase takes place
1804A - May - Lewis and Clark begin exploring lands west of the Mississippi
1814A - September 14 - Writing of the "Star Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key
1820A - March 3 - Congress passes the Missouri Compromise
1823A - December 2 - Monroe Doctrine established
1827A - 1st African-American newspaper, "Freedom's Journal," published in New York
1835A - Texas Revolution breaks out against Mexican rule
1836A - March 2 - Texas declares its independence from Mexico
1836B - Battle of the Alamo
1838A - Underground railroad escape routes developed
1843A - Settlers begin migration over the Oregon Trail to Oregon territory
1844A - May 24 - Mores sends the first telegram message, "What hath god wrought?"
1846A - Mexican War begins
1850A - September 9 - California admitted to the Union
1857A - March 6 - Dred Scott decision
1860A - November - Abraham Lincoln elected President
1861A - April 12 - Confederates fire on Fort Sumter - Start of the Civil War
1862A - July 2 - Morrill Land-Grant College Act
1862B - September 17 - Battle of Antietam
1863A - January 1 - Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
1893B - July 1-3 - Battle of Gettysburg
1869A - May 10 (ellie's bday) - World's first transcontinental railroad is finished
1870A - February 3 - 15th Amendment adopted - Right to vote
1876A - March 7 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1876B - Battle of the Little Big Horn
1882A - May 6 - Chinese exclusion act passed
1885A - February 21 - Washington Monument is dedicated
1896A - "Plessy V. Ferguson" Supreme Court decision legalizes segregation
1898A - Spanish-American War
1903A - Wright brothers launch first successful flight in an airplane
1908A - October 1 - The first model T Ford put on the market
1915A - May 7 - "Lusitania" sunk by German submarine - American lives lost
1917A - April 6 - America declares war on Germany and enters World War 1
1918A - November 11 - World War I ends
1920A - August 26 - 19th Amendment granting women right to vote is ratified
1927A - May 20-21 - Charles Lindbergh makes first solo flight across the Atlantic
1929A - October 28 - Stock Market crash brings on the Great Depression
1931A - March 3 - "Star Spangled Banner" is officially made U.S. anthem
1932A - November - Franklin Roosevelt elected president for 1st of 4 terms
1939A - August 2 - Einstein urges Roosevelt to develope an atomic bomb
1941A - December 7 - Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - Pushes America into World War II
1944A - June 6 - D-Day - The invasion of Europe
1945A - August 6&9 - U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1954A - May 17 - "Brown vs. Board of Education" ends segregation in public schools
1954A - Jonas Salk develops vaccine for Polio
1955A - Montgomery Bus Boycotts - Led by Martin Luther King Jr.
1959A - April 1 - NASA selects the first seven American astronauts
1961A - May 5 - Alan Shepard is America's first man in space
1963A - November 22 - President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas
1971A - July 5 - 26th Amendment lowers voting age to 18
1973A - January 27 - U.S. and S. Vietnam sign cease-fire with N. Vietnam ending Vietnam War
1980A - November - Ronald Reagan elected president
1983A - Sally Ride [Westlake School] - becomes first women in space
1991A - 1st Gulf War with Iraq
That took a while, it's all the dates, if you lost the sheet with the dates hope you use this!
Peace and Love,
Ellie
Monday, November 26, 2007
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2 comments:
WOW Ellie!!! nice job. Thanks a Bunch
you are very welcome
peace and love,
ellie
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