My distinguished padlet by Paris Bush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h Made with serendipity en-us 2022-02-21 19:17:22 UTC 2022-02-23 22:54:53 UTC hello@padlet.com 1619- Colonists arrive in Jamestown, Virginia parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059269802  Two momentous events happened in Britain's fledgling colony in Virginia. The New World's first democratic assembly convened, and an English privateer brought kidnapped Africans to sell as slaves. Such were the conflicted origins of modern America.]]> 2022-02-21 19:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059269802 · December 16, 1773 - the Boston tea party parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059270705 he Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.]]> 2022-02-21 19:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059270705 · 1775 - the start of the Revolutionary war parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059305133
In 1775, when the American Revolution began, there was no regular army.  Revolutionary War began with the confrontation between British troops and local militia at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on 19 April 1775. Throughout the war, state troops and local militias  supplemented the Continental (Federal) Army. British force of 700 faced 77 local minutemen, and then at Concord, where an American counter force of 320 to 400 sent the British scurrying.
]]> 2022-02-21 19:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059305133 · 1783 - the end of the Revolutionary war parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059305500 The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States, recognized American independence and established borders for the new nation. ... The Treaty of Paris, formally ending the war, was not signed until September 3, 1783.]]> 2022-02-21 19:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059305500 · May 25, 1787 - the constitutional convention parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059305723 The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. the convention met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia (May 25–September 17, 1787), ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation.]]> 2022-02-21 19:51:26 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059305723 · 1800 - the election of 1800 parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059306124 "Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated Federalist John Adams by a margin of seventy-three to sixty-five electoral votes in the presidential election of 1800. Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party. The election was a political realignment that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican leadership.]]> 2022-02-21 19:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059306124 · 1812 - the war of 1812 parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059306365 The War of 1812 june 18 1812 – February 17 1815, was a conflict fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against Great Britain and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida.]]> 2022-02-21 19:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059306365 · 1845 - the manifest destiny parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059306621 Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined by God, its advocates believed to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.]]> 2022-02-21 19:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059306621 · 1861 - the start of the Civil war parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059307908 Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Serfdom is abolished in the Russian Empire. Abraham Lincoln is sworn in, as the 16th President of the United States. American Civil War: The "Stars and Bars" is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America. ]]> 2022-02-21 19:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059307908 · 1863 - the battle of Gettysburg parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059308132
The Battle of Gettysburg fought on July 1–3, 1863, was the turning point of the Civil War for one main reason: Robert E. Lee's plan to invade the North and force an immediate end to the war failed. The collision of two great armies at Gettysburg put an end to that audacious plan.
]]> 2022-02-21 19:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059308132 · 1865 - the end of the Civil War parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059308311 General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate troops to the Union's Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, marking the beginning of the end of the grinding four-year-long American Civil War.]]> 2022-02-21 19:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059308311 1877 - the End of Reconstruction parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059308805 The Compromise of 1876 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats' promises to protect the civil and political rights of Black people were not kept, and the end of federal interference in southern affairs led to widespread disenfranchisement of Black voters.

]]> 2022-02-21 19:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2059308805 Korean war - 1950 - 1953 parisbush https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2063506355 The Korean War was a war fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea. The brutal war that raged 60 years ago killed more than two million Koreans, separated thousands of families, and created the world's most heavily fortified border. It also drew the alliances that exist today. The armistice agreement that ended the war is a truce, rather than a peace treaty.]]> 2022-02-23 22:52:29 UTC https://padlet.com/parisbush/xojc2sjeprlyct7h/wish/2063506355