https://padlet.com/sbeatricehutchens/kix0z7dgmbf27vx9 Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2021-12-01 23:55:07 UTC 2025-11-03 13:52:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f643.png sbeatricehutchens https://padlet.com/sbeatricehutchens/kix0z7dgmbf27vx9/wish/2141652556 In the 1760s, the British government began passing several taxes on their colonies
Colonists rejected these taxes and British control and had events like the Boston Tea Party
Taxation without representation
Conflict began with the battle at Lexington and Concord between British Troops and Colonial Minutemen.  Soon the colonists wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence
Shot heard around the world

]]> 2022-04-13 00:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sbeatricehutchens/kix0z7dgmbf27vx9/wish/2141652556 sbeatricehutchens https://padlet.com/sbeatricehutchens/kix0z7dgmbf27vx9/wish/2141654975 The United States entered WWII after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
The US had been involved in the war before that, sending supplies to the Allies with the Cash and Carry Policy and Lend-Lease Act
US sent troops to the Pacific and European Theater, fighting in major battles such as Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Midway, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, and Nuremberg
US helped defeat the Axis powers, with V-E day being May 8. 1945 and V-J day September 2nd
After dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Two events that got the US involved in the war were the Sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram
U-Boat Warfare and Germany trying to get Mexico to attack the US
After the war, the US entered a period of great economic activity known as the Roaring 20’s
However, but Black Tuesday on October 29, 1929 the US had entered the Great Depression

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Many people believed in the idea of Manifest Destiny.  This led to many conflicts with Native Americans
US has history of violence with Native Americans, forcing them off their land, and general mistreatment
In the 19th century, US became more industrialized, staring with textile industry.  Led to high urbanization and creating of transcontinental railroad 
Same Industrial Revolution that Europe had

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