My Map Padlet by Chase Hogge _ Student - GreenLevelHS

Yorktown, VA

cthogge — 2025-09-10 17:07:51 UTC

It was the decisive battle that ended the war and secured American independence

Lexington Battle Green, Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA

cthogge — 2025-09-10 17:09:44 UTC

This marked the first armed conflict of the American Revolution, transforming colonial resistance into an organized military war

Saratoga Springs, NY

cthogge — 2025-09-10 17:13:49 UTC

The Battle of Saratoga was a crucial American victory in the Revolutionary War because it persuaded France enter into a formal alliance with the Americans, providing vital financial and military aid that helped secure final victory at Yorktown.

Louisiana Territory

cthogge — 2025-09-26 17:35:33 UTC

U.S. acquisition of the North American territory from France in 1803 for $15 million

Missouri compromise line

cthogge — 2025-09-26 17:36:42 UTC

Based on the 36°30' parallel, this stated that states above this line were free states while states below were slave states

Missouri

cthogge — 2025-09-26 17:37:45 UTC

Wanted to join the Union as a slave state, throwing off the balance of slave and free states

Maine

cthogge — 2025-09-26 17:38:21 UTC

Added as a free state to balance another slave state joining the Union

Erie Canal

cthogge — 2025-09-26 17:39:00 UTC

Considered a marvel of the modern world at the time, allowed western farmers to ship surplus crops to sell in the North and allowed northern manufacturers to ship finished goods to sell in the West

Border States

cthogge — 2025-10-17 17:22:27 UTC

Slave states that did not secede from the Union. They were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and after 1863, West Virginia

Battle of gettysburg

cthogge — 2025-10-17 17:22:57 UTC

Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North

Wilmington (NC) Coup

cthogge — 2025-10-17 17:23:25 UTC

By force, a white mob seized the reins of government in the port city and destroyed the local black-owned newspaper office and terrorized the African American community

Battle of Fort Sumter

cthogge — 2025-10-17 17:23:53 UTC

The first battle that marked the beginning of the Civil War

Bleeding Kansas

cthogge — 2025-10-17 17:24:26 UTC

The period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces

Golden Spike Laid

cthogge — 2025-11-03 18:18:15 UTC

A national historic site commemorating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, linking the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads.

Ellis Island

cthogge — 2025-11-03 18:19:02 UTC

Place in the New York Harbor that served as the main point of entry for immigrants to the United States from 1892 to 1954.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

cthogge — 2025-11-03 18:19:56 UTC

An industrial disaster in New York City that killed 146 garment workers, many of whom died in the fire or jumped to escape.

Philippines

cthogge — 2025-11-25 18:33:37 UTC

Spanish colony in the Pacific whom the US helped free from Spain, but soon after took as their own colony

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7, 1941; sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the U.S. into WWII

Hiroshima, Japan

cthogge — 2025-11-25 18:34:28 UTC

The first city to face nuclear attacks during WWII

Puerto Rico

cthogge — 2025-11-25 18:34:47 UTC

Given to the U.S. by Spain as payment for the cost of the Spanish-American War

Hawaii

cthogge — 2025-11-25 18:35:05 UTC

U.S. wanted Hawaii so their sugar could be sold duty free; Queen Liliuokalani opposed, Sanford B. Dole overthrew her in 1893, annexed in 1898

Okinawa, Japan

cthogge — 2025-11-25 18:35:18 UTC

The scene of the last great U.S. amphibious campaign in WWII; showed that the Japanese would “fight to the death”

Normandy, France

cthogge — 2025-11-25 18:35:32 UTC

Site of Allied invasion of occupied France, the turning point in WWII

Alaska

cthogge — 2025-11-25 18:35:44 UTC

Purchased by the U.S. from Russia in 1867 for $7.2M; significant because it removed foreign powers from the continent

Berlin, Germany

cthogge — 2025-12-17 18:27:43 UTC

Split up by the Allies and USSR after WWII; saved by the USA via air‑dropped supplies.

Vietnam

cthogge — 2025-12-17 18:28:02 UTC

War executed because of containment theory; USA’s first real war loss

Cuba

cthogge — 2025-12-17 18:28:37 UTC

Island country ~90 miles from Florida; positioned USSR nuclear weapons toward the USA.

Turkey

cthogge — 2025-12-17 18:29:09 UTC

Asian NATO member; the USA withdrew nuclear weapons from here to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Inchon, South Korea

cthogge — 2025-12-17 18:29:26 UTC

Location of the last great amphibious landing; turning point of the war.

9/11

cthogge — 2026-01-12 14:09:52 UTC

The terrorist attacks when hijacked airplanes were crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., causing massive loss of life and triggering the War on Terror.

Montreal Protocol

cthogge — 2026-01-12 14:10:17 UTC

An international treaty aimed at protecting the ozone layer by phasing out the production and consumption of ozone‑depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

Kyoto, Japan

cthogge — 2026-01-12 14:11:09 UTC

An international agreement that set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to help mitigate climate change; adopted in 1997 and entered into force in 2005

Guantánamo

cthogge — 2026-01-12 14:11:37 UTC

The U.S. naval base in Cuba that became widely known for its detention facility used to hold individuals captured in the War on Terror after the September 11 attacks.

Taliban

cthogge — 2026-01-12 14:12:05 UTC

An Islamist militant group that gained control of Afghanistan in the 1990s, enforcing a strict interpretation of Islamic law, and later became central to the War on Terror due to their ties with Osama bin Laden and al‑Qaeda.