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The time of European Exploration is when Europeans were coming to explore the New World, which included what would eventually become North America, South America, and Central Louisiana. The main reasons that Europeans were wanting to explore the New World was for religious freedom, ways to make more money, and simply just to say that they had conquered the New World. These explorations increased national trade and eventually caused the Columbian Exchange to happen.

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Slavery in America began in 1619 when 20 slaves were traded for food and boarded a British privateer ship that was then taken to Virginia. After that slaves were used to help establish and colonize the New World. They were also sought after because African slaves were cheaper to have than indentured servants. Slavery in the United States continued to go on until it was abolished in 1864.

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The Triangular Trade Route that was going on in the 1700s was a form of trade across the Atlantic Ocean between the 13 colonies, Europe, and Africa. The system worked by Europe supplying the colonies and Africa with finished goods, Africa supplied the colonies with slaves, and the colonies provided Europe and Africa with raw materials so they could be made into finished goods. This system allowed the colonies to be strengthened and become more financially stable.

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The Revolutionary War was a war between the colonial militiamen of America and the British troops in regards to the American patriots wanting to be free from the government of Great Britain. The American Patriots finally won in 1781 thanks to the leading of General George Washington. It was when this war ended that the American colonists had truly gained their freedom.

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After being controlled by Great Britain for far too long, the Continental Congress of the 13 colonies drafted an evidence-stocked statement saying that they were removing themselves from Great Britain's control. It was signed on July 4th, 1776 by the members of the Continental Congress. The declaration included the colonies reasonings for cutting all ties with Britain, specifically all the things King George III had done to make them despise being under Britain's control. The date of the Declaration of Independence being signed is considered the day America became fully independent and is now an annual national holiday.

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The Articles of Confederation were drafted as a way of creating a form of government for the 13 colonies. The only problem was that there was not any executive form of government, so some of the states were beginning to function as their own individual government. The reasoning for this was because the colonies did not want a repeat of what had happened with Great Britain's authority over them, but it was soon realized that something more unifying was needed.

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The Constitution of the United States lays out what is considered law in our country. It divided the government into three different branches: Judicial, Legislative, and Executive. It was written by our Founding Fathers including George Washington and James Madison. Most of the amendments and principles that were originally written are still used in American Law today.

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The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, adopted as a single unit in 1791. It spells out the rights of the people of the United States in relation to their government. The Bill of Rights gave American citizens things such as the right to have freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.

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In the late 18th century, the Southern states were in high demand from England regarding the product of cotton. However, the production of cotton was slow because of the time it took for slaves to remove the seeds from the cotton by hand. Around this time a man named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, which was a machine that efficiently removed the seeds from cotton.

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Robert Fulton was an American engineer and inventor who invented the first steamboat. In 1803 he took his first experimental steamboat out on the Seine River in France for a test run and was successful. After this happened transportation was revolutionized because steamboats allowed much easier travel upriver, improving the efficiency of trading perishable goods.

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The Louisiana Purchase happened on May 2, 1803 when the United States purchased land from France west of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to modern-day Canada. The purchase was $15 million and doubled the size of the United States. This all happened because France had recently taken control of the territory and President Thomas Jefferson was worried about the impeding French invaders.

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Captain Meriweather Lewis and Lieutenant Clark led the two year long expedition to explore the land that the United States had just received from the Louisiana Purchase. The goal of the expedition was to find an overland route to the Pacific Ocean. They were accompanied by 40 men who were all skilled in various trades and ended up hiring Toussaint Charbonneau and his Indian wife, Sacagawea, who served as a guide and interpreter.

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The War of 1812 was caused by the United States wanting to expand their territory and eliminate the restrictions Great Britain had placed on their trading. Great Britain was technically the winner of the war, but the United States had gained great international respect from the rest of the world because they took on one of the greatest military powers of the world. This war is also considered to be the Naval War of 1812 because many of the battles were fought at sea by ship.

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The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. Foreign Policy that was delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823. It stated that the United States was not going to allow any further any colonization on U.S. grounds from Europeans. As the U.S. became a world power, the Monroe Doctrine came to define the Western Hemisphere as a U.S. sphere of influence.

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The Industrial Revolution was a transitional period in time when people began changing from an agricultural economy to one that relied on the use of machines and manufacturing products industrially. This revolution brought on a surplus of new jobs for Americans and many people began leaving the agricultural life to come work in the city at an industrial plant for more money. However it was very dangerous to work in these plants and many people were hurt or killed while on the job.

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Manifest destiny was a cultural belief that was popular amongst 19th century American settlers who believed they were destined to expand across North America. This led to many settlers moving from the east side of the continent to the west side. The idea was used to validate continental acquisitions in the Oregon Country, Texas, New Mexico, and California. Later it was used to justify the purchase of Alaska and annexation of Hawaii.

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The Westward Movement was when the European settlers of the 13 colonies began to move towards the western, unclaimed parts of America. People were wanting to seek more religious freedom and see what other kinds of resources were available in the West. Events like the Gold Rush also spurred people to move West because everyone was wanting to strike it rich with gold in California.

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The Trail of Tears was part of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Policy in 1838. It forced Cherokee Indians and several other tribes east of the Mississippi River to migrate west of the Mississippi River to what is now known as modern-day Oklahoma. It was named for what it is because of the devastating effects the journey had on the Indians due to the trail including a couple thousand miles of land and water routes. 15,000 people ended up dying on the journey.

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Dred Scott was a slave who had been given freedom by his master(John Emerson) from being a resident in a free state and territory, during which he met and married his wife Harriet. Emerson, along with Dred and Harriet, moved back to the slave state they were originally in, but then Emerson died, making his wife a widow. Dred and Harriet tried to buy their freedom back from Mrs. Emerson, but she refused. This ended up being a long and drawn out court battle where a decision was finally made in the Supreme Court that people of African descent were never meant to be citizens under the U.S. Constitution.

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The Civil War was essentially a war between the Southern/Union states and the Northern/Confederate states of America based on the argument as to whether or not slavery should be abolished. The Southern states did not feel like slavery should be abolished and the Northern states felt like it should be abolished. The war ended in April 1865 when the Confederate troops surrendered to the Union, making the Union victorious.

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13th Amendment- Abolition of Slavery (1864) 

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13th Amendment- Abolition of Slavery (1864) 

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Slavery ended after the Civil War had ended, Abraham Lincoln had delivered the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment was adopted in 1865. The amendment freed more than 100,000 people across the country and made slavery completely illegal in the United States. After slavery was abolished many freed slaves fled from their owners or went to work for wages for their former masters.

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14th Amendment- Equal Treatment Under the Law  (1868) 

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14th Amendment- Equal Treatment Under the Law  (1868) 

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On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified and put into force immediately. It gave citizenship, as well as equal and civil rights to all African Americans and the ones that had been emancipated from their slavery after the Civil War. It also prevented all states from depriving anyone of life, liberty, or property, meaning that African Americans now had the same rights as white Americans.

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15th Amendment- Voting Rights for Black Men (1870) 

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15th Amendment- Voting Rights for Black Men (1870) 

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The 15th Amendment was ratified by the United States Congress on February 3, 1870. It granted all citizens of the United States the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. However this amendment was not truly enforced and real change on this issue at the state and city levels was not made until the Voting Rights Act was ratified in 1965.

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World War I began when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914. After that it was a war between the Central Powers(Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey) against the Allies(France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States). The Allies won the war and America came out of the war as a world power.

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19th Amendment- Voting Rights for Women (1920)

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19th Amendment- Voting Rights for Women (1920)

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On August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment  The 19th amendment legally guaranteed American women the right to vote. This was able to happen after years of the Women's Suffrage Movement leading up to the 19th amendment being ratified. However none of it would have happened had Tennessee not had the one vote that approved the amendment, giving the United States the 36 states it needed to be on board.

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The Great Depression was caused by the infamous stock market crash of October 1929. After this happened America suffered nearly a decade of unemployment, homelessness, and a third of all banks failing. People were desperate for money and were willing to do back-breaking work for hardly any pay at all.

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As a response to the Great Depression, President Theodore Roosevelt created a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations in order to help improve the economical state of the country. This gave the struggling American citizens a sense of hope and security as it put people back to work. It lasted from 1933-1939 until Roosevelt was no longer president.

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World War II started when Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and Great Britian and France declared war on Germany. It was a war between the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union) The United States were not initially involved in the war, but became involved when Japan attacked the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor on December 8, 1941. The war ended shortly after Adolf Hitler, the chancellor of Germany, committed suicide in April, 1945.

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The Korean War began because after the Soviet Union defeated Japan in WW2, they took over what is now known as North Korea and the U.S. was occupying South Korea. The war officially began when North Korea invaded South Korea because South Korea was trying to become one nation again while North Korea had developed communist beliefs and wanted to be independent. In July, 1953 the war ended with over 5,000 casualties between soldiers and civilians.

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Brown vs. Board of Education was a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that concluded that racial segregation in schools was a direct violation of the 14th amendment. It pronounced that having separate schools for white and African American children was inherently unequal. After this happened, many protests broke out in opposition to the new ruling and private schools for white children only were made because they didn't have to answer to the ruling.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the ultimate catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks was just an average African American woman who was sitting in the "neutral" section of a bus when the bus driver told her to get up and go to the back, even though there weren't any seats left in the back. Parks refused, and this resulted in her arrest. For the next year Montgomery African Americans refused to take public transportation until the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional.

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On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his infamous "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C. during the March on Washington. The part of the speech where Dr. King talked about the dream he had was not originally supposed to be part of his speech that day, but he was advised by singer Mahalia Jackson to tell the crowd about the dream. It was then he began saying some of the most famous words in history that propelled the Civil Rights Movement even further.

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The Vietnam War was a twenty year long battle between North Vietnam and South Vietnam with the United States at the South's aid. It resulted in about 60,000 American deaths and nearly 2 million Vietnamese deaths. The war finally ended in 1975 when a peace agreement was signed in Paris, France by representatives of all the involved parties in the war. This war also sparked anti-war protests amongst Americans.

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September 11th, 2001 was the day that America was attacked by 19 Islamic terrorists who had hijacked four planes and caused two of them to crash into the Twin Towers in New York and another into the Pentagon. There was a fourth plane that was believed to have been heading towards the capitol building in Washington, D.C., but the passengers caught wind of what was going on and attempted to overthrow the assailants, causing the plane to crash into a field in Pennsylvania. It was the worst attack U.S. soil has ever seen and ended up killing 3,000 people.