https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4 en-us 2025-08-28 16:45:51 UTC 2026-01-09 17:15:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f310.png jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3559019083 New Orleans was important because it was an outlet for trade from the West, and its importance led to the Louisiana Purchase.

]]> 2025-08-28 17:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3559019083 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3559019817 It served as a trading post between Europe and Native American tribes.

]]> 2025-08-28 17:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3559019817 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3559020542 A major colonial port, a focal point for the American Revolution and the Civil War

]]> 2025-08-28 17:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3559020542 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3559020737 Where the Declaration of Independence was adopted and the US Constitution was drafted

]]> 2025-08-28 17:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3559020737 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3559023020 The first permanent English settlement in North America

]]> 2025-08-28 17:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3559023020 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3580860225 The first military engagements of the Revolutionary War which took place in Massachusetts. After an initial clash in Lexington, the British advanced to Concord, where more fighting occurred.

]]> 2025-09-11 21:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3580860225 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3580861263 The first military engagements of the Revolutionary War which took place in Massachusetts. After an initial clash in Lexington, the British advanced to Concord, where more fighting occurred.

]]> 2025-09-11 21:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3580861263 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3580861915 A series of battles that marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War. It led to a major British defeat and the surrender of their army, which convinced France to ally with the Americans.

]]> 2025-09-11 21:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3580861915 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3580862477 Famous as the site of the decisive Revolutionary War battle where British General surrendered to George Washington and the French forces.

]]> 2025-09-11 21:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3580862477 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3606099406 The vast Louisiana Purchase from France, west of the Mississippi River. It doubled the size of the country and provided a basis for westward expansion.

]]> 2025-09-26 15:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3606099406 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3606103016 A boundary set up as part of the Missouri Compromise (slave state). New states formed North of it would be free, while states south could permit slavery. It cut the land from the Louisiana Purchase into North and South states.

]]> 2025-09-26 16:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3606103016 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3606106602 The state named after the indigenous Missouria tribe, and landmark of the Missouri Compromise

]]> 2025-09-26 16:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3606106602 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3606108990 Part of the Missouri Compromise, a free state.

]]> 2025-09-26 16:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3606108990 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3606111929 Constructed from 1817 to 1825, it connected the Atlantic to the Great Lakes and helped with commerce and westward expansion.

]]> 2025-09-26 16:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3606111929 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637889386 Slave States that remained in the Union during the Civil War

]]> 2025-10-17 16:13:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637889386 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637889951 Slave States that remained in the Union during the Civil War

]]> 2025-10-17 16:14:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637889951 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637891841 Slave States that remained in the Union during the Civil War

]]> 2025-10-17 16:15:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637891841 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637892180 Slave States that remained in the Union during the Civil War

]]> 2025-10-17 16:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637892180 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637892880 Slave States that remained in the Union during the Civil War

]]> 2025-10-17 16:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637892880 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637894830 The Confederate attack on the Union-held fort in Charleston Harbor, marked the beginning of the American Civil War.

]]> 2025-10-17 16:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637894830 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637896443 A three-day battle in the Civil War, where the Confederate assault on the final day failed

]]> 2025-10-17 16:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637896443 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637898817 A violent conflict in the Kansas Territory between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers, largely due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act

]]> 2025-10-17 16:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637898817 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637907332 A coup detat and massacre that was carried out by white supremacists that resulted in the violent overthrow of the locally elected government.

]]> 2025-10-17 16:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3637907332 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3663780587 The ceremonial spike driven to complete the first transcontinental railroad

]]> 2025-11-03 15:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3663780587 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3663783343 the primary U.S. immigration station from 1892 to 1954

]]> 2025-11-03 15:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3663783343 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3663786129 A deadly industrial disaster in New York City on March 25, 1911, that killed 146 garment workers, most of them young immigrant women

]]> 2025-11-03 15:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3663786129 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696647427 In U.S. history, Hawaii's story is defined by its transformation from a sovereign kingdom to a U.S. territory and finally to the 50th state

]]> 2025-11-24 18:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696647427 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696648254 The archipelago in Southeast Asia that became an American territory after the U.S. defeated Spain in the Spanish-American War in 1898

]]> 2025-11-24 18:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696648254 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696648821 In U.S. history, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States in the Caribbean, acquired from Spain in 1898 after the Spanish-American War.

]]> 2025-11-24 18:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696648821 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696649253 In U.S. history, Alaska refers to the territory purchased from Russia in 1867 and its subsequent path to becoming the 49th state in 1959

]]> 2025-11-24 18:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696649253 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696649917 The devastating surprise attack by the Japanese navy on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.

]]> 2025-11-24 18:06:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696649917 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696650931 the French region where Allied forces, including a significant American contingent, launched the massive D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944,

]]> 2025-11-24 18:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696650931 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696651688 Battle of Okinawa in 1945, a brutal WWII campaign that resulted in the island's capture by US forces and its subsequent use as a major military base. After the war, the US occupied Okinawa until 1972, when it was returned to Japan

]]> 2025-11-24 18:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696651688 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696653137 the Japanese city where the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945, during World War II.

]]> 2025-11-24 18:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3696653137 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3723314655 post-WWII role in a divided Germany, famously supplying West Berlin via the Berlin Airlift (1948-49) to counter the Soviet blockade, making it a symbol of freedom against communism. U.S. troops, like the Berlin Brigade, asserted access rights and supported West Berliners through the tense Cold War, especially after the Berlin Wall went up in 1961

]]> 2025-12-15 17:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3723314655 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3723315527 America's prolonged, controversial military involvement (c. 1955-1975) to stop communist North Vietnam from taking over South Vietnam, driven by Cold War containment policy

]]> 2025-12-15 17:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3723315527 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3723316773 Cuba became a focal point of US-Soviet tension after Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution overthrew the US-backed Batista dictatorship, pushing Cuba into the Soviet sphere due to US hostility, leading to the iconic 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis when Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba nearly triggered a nuclear war

]]> 2025-12-15 17:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3723316773 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3723318955 In the Cold War, Turkey became a crucial U.S. ally and NATO anchor due to its strategic location bordering the Soviet Union, serving as a bulwark against communism in the Middle East.

]]> 2025-12-15 17:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3723318955 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3723320448 The Inchon Landing (Operation Chromite) in September 1950 was a pivotal, daring amphibious assault by U.S. and UN forces during the Korean War, masterminded by General Douglas MacArthur, that dramatically reversed the war's tide by landing behind North Korean lines, recapturing Seoul, and disrupting enemy supply chains, showcasing America's commitment to containment during the early Cold War and securing South Korea's future.

]]> 2025-12-15 17:23:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3723320448 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3745829121 Coordinated terrorist attacks on September 11, where militants from an Islamic extremist group hijacked four US airliners, crashing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

]]> 2026-01-09 17:09:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3745829121 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3745831035 A landmark global treaty to protect Earth's ozone later by phasing out ozone-depleting substances.

]]> 2026-01-09 17:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3745831035 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3745832027 A landmark international treaty that set legally binding targets for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

]]> 2026-01-09 17:12:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3745832027 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3745833449 Controversial detention camp established in 2002 for "enemy combatants" after 9/11, symbolizing legal ambiguity, human rights abuses, and indefinite detention outside US law.

]]> 2026-01-09 17:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3745833449 jbmarrero https://padlet.com/jbmarrero/w5cxitno12zyood4/wish/3745835937 A fundamentalist Islamic militia and political movement that has controlled much of Afghanistan, known for enforcing a strict interpretation of Islamic law and governing through extreme social restrictions.

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