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Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929. Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945. The Post War United States, 1945-1968. Explore important topics and moments in U.S. history through historical primary sources from the Library of Congress.
Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline Colonial Settlement, 1600s - 1763 Overview When the London Company sent out its first expedition to begin colonizing Virginia on December 20, 1606, it was by no means the first European attempt to exploit North America.
Overview. When the London Company sent out its first expedition to begin colonizing Virginia on December 20, 1606, it was by no means the first European attempt to exploit North America. In 1564, for example, French Protestants (Huguenots) built a colony near what is now Jacksonville, Florida.
Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline The American Revolution, 1763 - 1783 Overview Until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, few colonists in British North America objected to their place in the British Empire.
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929. Overview The early 20th century was an era of business expansion and progressive reform in the United States. Automobiles in the Progressive and New Eras The automobile transformed the lives of people living in the United States.
Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline The New Nation, 1783 - 1815 Overview At the successful conclusion of the Revolutionary War with Great Britain in 1783, an American could look back and reflect on the truly revolutionary events that had occurred in the preceding three decades.
Work in the Late 19th Century The late 19th-century United States is probably best known for the vast expansion of its industrial plant and output. Explore important topics and moments in U.S. history through historical primary sources from the Library of Congress.
Timeline. June 28, 1914. Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated. July 28, 1914. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I. August 2-7, 1914. Germany invades Luxembourg and Belgium. France invades Alsace. British forces arrive in France.
The first shots of what would become the war for American independence were fired in April 1775. For some months before that clash at Lexington and Concord, patriots had been gathering arms and powder and had been training to fight the British if that became necessary.
Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline National Expansion and Reform, 1815 - 1880 Overview During this period, the small republic founded by George Washington's generation became the world's largest democracy.