The Erie Canal- A waterway in New York that travels about 363 miles from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York at Lake Erie. It was 36 locks and was first purposed in 1808 and started construction in 1817 to 1825. It was used to transport good and people to places. It was faster then because they didn't have planes and had little reads. This made trade easier from eastern US to Western US. It also helped with trading.
The war of 1812- A major conflict between the Americans and the British which escalated to a world war with the US, Spain, France, and the Netherlands.
Civil War- From the year 1861-1865. A war between people who wanted different things in their country. This caused the Southern States to succeed.
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln- Happened on April 14, 1865 Abraham was shot by John Wilkes Booth while he was watching Our American Cousin.
Native Americans- What is the Bering Straight? It is also known as a land bridge connecting present day Alaska and Russia during the Pleistocene ice ages. It is roughly 1000 miles wide. This was important because if they weren't here we wouldn't know how to act. America occurred about 16500 to 13000 years ago.
Christopher Columbus- August 3rd 1492 Christopher Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera with three ships. The first stop was Canary Islands. On October 11th 1492 they saw land and met a group of people known at the Taino Indians. He claimed land from Spain and renamed it San Salvador. The Spanish Monarchs were excited about his discoveries. Europeans brought over many diseases. The goal was to find knew life by crossing the Atlantic.
Colonization- Occurs whenever any one or more species populate an area. It may be used as a method of absorbing and there was the Russian Empire aimed. Colonization refers strictly to migration. The sixteenth century was the work of colonizing. South America was settled rapidly.
The Revolutionary War- A war of the Americans against Britain concerning America's Independence from Britain. It started because the knew Americans wanted freedom from England and taxes were being forced on them by the King. They didn't want any taxes. The after effects consist of the Treaty of Paris, and George Washington became president. It also had major effects on the American Economy, and made women's rights be promoted.
The Market Revolution was in 1793-1909 in the United States was a drastic change in the manual labor system originating in the South and soon moving to the North and later spreading around the entire world. They bought the market revolution about a change in the industry. A big part of building up our country.
The Western Expansion was when the government was trying to get people to move west. James Marshall discovered gold. Many went during the year 1849 and referred to them as the 49rs. People from all over came to find gold.
The Oregon Trail was the trail that led people to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. As Americans moved west, the Native Americans got pushed further and further west too. Willamette River is where the Oregon trail ended.
Mexican American War- 1835 Texans fight for independence from Mexico. In 1836 Texas gains independence at the Battle of San Jacinto. The battle of Buena Vista is the last major battle.
Civil War- The war was between the Northern abolitionist states and the Southern states who wished to continue to have slavery. The war started on April 12th 1861. On January 27th 1862 Lincoln launches a Union Attack on the Confederacy. Impact on the US--- 600,000 casualties where several men were wounded or became amputees. Made for unsolved issues between the North and South independence. The assassination of Abe Lincoln, nobody knows but we think his motives were because of the civil war.
Infrastructure- roads and highways and stuff along those lines.
Transcontinental Railroad- Started in Council Bluffs Iowa and they laid 1,087 miles on the track. The railroad started in 1863 and finished in the year 1869. The Chinese were the ones that immigrated and built the railroad in their little rice hats on the Central Pacific.
Columbus- took him seven years to get a king or queen to accept his plan to sail west to Asia. His four trips to America started a long lasting connection with Europe.
Revolutionary War- Started on April 19th 1775 and ended September 3rd 1783. It stated because of unfair taxes.
The first Commercially Available Ice Cream- The first ice cream parlor opened in New York City in 1776.
Drafting of the Constitution- Began in 1787 it was adopted September 17, 1787 and went into effect in March of 1789.
The Louisiana Purchase- In 1803 the US purchased 828,000 square miles of land. It impacted us greatly by expanding the size of our country. The US claimed it contained the entire western Mississippi drainage basin to the crest of the Rocky Mountains. Spain believed we only controlled the western bank though.
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