Over the years, the United States of America has grown into a great nation due to the many obstacles and trials it has endured. The following pages, created by 8th grade students at Oskaloosa Middle School, chronicle just a few of the events and challenges our country has faced. These events helped shape our country into the great nation we now call home.
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- Events in American History
- 1607 Jamestown
- 1607-1733 Formation Of Thirteen Colonies
- 1624 Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1620 The Mayflower Compact
- 1692-1693 Salem Witch Trials
- 1754 Albany Plan of the Union
- 1754-1763 French and Indian War
- 1770 Boston Massacre
- 1773 Boston Tea Party
- 1775-1784 Revolutionary War
- 1776 Declaration of Independence
- 1781 Battle of Yorktown
- 1787 US Constitution
- 1801-1804 Lewis & Clark Expedition
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase
- 1832-1833 Black Hawk War
- 1836 The Alamo
- 1846-1869 Oregon Trail
- 1861-1865 The Civil War
- 1863 Battle of Gettysburg
- 1863 Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
- 1929-1930s The Great Depression
- 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
- 1931-1939 Dust Bowl
- 1941 Pearl Harbor Attack
- 1963 The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Key People in the Life of the United States of America
- 1451-1506 Christopher Columbus
- 1607 Pocahontas
- 1644 William Penn
- 1697-1746 John Peter Zenger
- 1732-1799 George Washington
- 1760-1790 Benjamin Franklin
- 1767 -1848 John Adams
- 1775 Paul Revere
- 1777 Betsy Ross
- 1809-1865 Abraham Lincoln
- 1812 Sacagawea
- 1820-1913 Harriet Tubman
- 1847-1931 Thomas Edison
- 1879-1955 Albert Einstein
- 1882-1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1955 Rosa Parks
- 1968 Martin Luther King Jr.
- World Events That Indirectly Affected the United States of America