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Sep 29, 2023 · 95 Examples of American History. John Spacey, updated on September 29, 2023. American history is the turbulent past of the United States as a nation and the process of discovery, colonization, revolution, war, immigration, social conflict and progress that has led to the present day.
- Explorers Bridge The Pacific
- Georgia Law Takes Cherokee Land
- J. Marion Sims Opens His Hospital
- The Oregon Treaty Defines The Canadian Border
- Commodore Perry Reaches Tokyo
- Abraham Lincoln Reminds America of Its Founding Principles
- Ida B. Wells Releases Southern Horrors
- The Supreme Court Sets Puerto Rico Apart
- The Meuse-Argonne Campaign Begins
- Bryan and Darrow Face Off in The Scopes Trial
The first successful voyageacross the Pacific Ocean — from the Americas to Asia and back — occurred in 1564 and 1565. Barely two generations after Columbus’ more famous voyage, European explorers faced an ocean that was roughly twice as large as the Atlantic and extremely difficult to navigate. This epic passage established a transpacific link, and...
In 1828, following the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, the Georgia legislature passed a lawextending its jurisdiction over the Cherokee Nation and allowing state surveyors to assess and divide land occupied by Cherokee people. The land was then redistributed — with buildings intact — to white residents via a lottery system, driving Cherokee lea...
Dr. James Marion Sims, a pioneering American gynecologist, is often credited with establishing the country’s first women’s hospital in Manhattan in 1855 — but in fact the Woman’s Hospital in the State of New York was not the first such institution he opened. In 1844, Sims had his slaves build a women’s hospital in Mt. Meigs, Ala., expressly for exp...
The Oregon Treaty established the United States-Canada border, west of the Rocky Mountains, at the 49th parallel. In the decades prior to the treaty, the U.S. and Great Britain had jointly occupied the region — but, while the boundary settled imperial questions, it also disrupted Indigenous homelands and people. In this way, it was not unlike other...
On July 8th, 1853, defying Japanese restrictions on international traffic, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed his steam-powered ships into Edo (Tokyo) Bay, heavily armed and belching smoke. Although his exercise in “gunboat diplomacy” culminated in the 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa, establishing trade relations between the U.S. and Japan, Perry deserves less...
When Abraham Lincolndedicated a national cemetery for the soldiers who had died at Gettysburg, four months after that central battle of the American Civil War, he was not the principal speaker. But no other speech that day has been remembered the way Lincoln’s words are. He spoke of the past, of the “proposition that all men are created equal” on w...
Four years before the Supreme Court made segregation the law of the land in Plessy v. Ferguson, Ida B. Wells could see — as most Americans could — that there would be little enforcement of the civil rights laws that had been passed in the wake of the Civil War. After three of Wells’ friends were murdered by a lynch mob in Memphis, she knew she coul...
The 1901 Supreme Court case Downes v. Bidwell was one of several cases that decided how the United States would govern the new territories, including Puerto Rico and the Philippines, it acquired in 1898 after the Spanish American War. Many people at the time believed that, because the islands’ residents were racially unfit for citizenship, the terr...
Although the Meuse-Argonne campaign is little remembered today, it was the greatest U.S. military contribution to World War I and the opening act of the “American century.” The 47 autumn days of brutal fighting claimed 26,277 American lives — making it the deadliest battle in the nation’s history — and left nearly 100,000 doughboyswounded. This sac...
When populist politician William Jennings Bryan faced off against attorney Clarence Darrow, it was the highlight of the Scopes trial — a case about teaching evolution in Tennessee that had captured national attention — and the capstone of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy in the Protestant churches. Darrow grilled Bryanon his interpretation ...
- The American Revolutionary War. Great Britain was the colonists of America for several decades before they fought for their independence. On 19April 1775, the American Revolutionary War, or the American War of Independence began.
- The Declaration of Independence. The American Revolutionary War was very important in American history as this led to the Declaration of Independence in America.
- Formulation of the Constitution. After the war was won by America, there was a need to formulate rules and laws that will govern the people. That is how the Constitution of the United States of America which is the fundamental law of the federal system of government was documented.
- The Whiskey Rebellion. Beginning in 1791, the Whiskey Rebellion or the Whiskey Insurrection was a violent tax protest after the whiskey tax was imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed government.
From the Boston Tea Party to the “shot heard round the world,” Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River, and the Valley Forge winter, the American Revolution’s pursuit of liberty was made meaningful by the founding document of the great American experiment in democracy.
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Catches Fire (Mar. 25, 1911) By Michele Anderson. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company’s fire resulted in the tragic loss of nearly 150 young women and girls on March 25, 1911, in New York City.
- The Great Migration Begins (1915) By Isabel Wilkerson. In today’s world African Americans are viewed as urban people, but that’s a very new phenomenon: The vast majority of time that African Americans have been on this continent, they’ve been primarily Southern and rural.
- The Prophet Is Published (Sept. 23, 1923) By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. In the aftermath of World War I, the Lebanese-born, Boston-based poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote what would become one of the world’s most translated works of philosophy: The Prophet.
- The KKK Marches in Washington (Aug. 8, 1925) By James Loewen. When the KKK paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., the headline in the New York Times declared “Sight Astonishes Capital: Robed, but Unmasked Hosts in White Move Along Avenue.”
U.S. History Primary Source Timeline. Explore important topics and moments in U.S. history through historical primary sources from the Library of Congress. Colonial Settlement, 1600s - 1763; The American Revolution, 1763 - 1783; The New Nation, 1783 - 1815; National Expansion and Reform, 1815 - 1880; Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Jun 30, 2017 · In the roughly two and a half centuries since America first celebrated its independence, there have been plenty of opportunities for moments big and small to sway the course of the nation’s...
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