I need suggestions on 10 important U.S. events that helped shape America...my teacher insists on events listed in history text books so I cant bring up 9-11 (in text books next year) or any other current events...ie things like pearl harbor, or our part in the Holocaust and WWII ect...
2007-05-01 11:49:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Revolutionary War
The Signing of the Constitution
The Civil War / Emacipation Proclomation
The Great Depression
Pearl Harbor
Developing and Using the Nuclear Bomb
(Trinity site - first successful Nuclear Explosion)
(Hiroshima & Nagasaki)
The Cuban Missile Crisis
JFKs assassination
Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement
Watergate
Vietnam
Roe V Wade (Supreme Court hearing)
There's lots you can choose from.
Good Luck.
2007-05-01 12:04:06 · answer #1 · answered by SlickNick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Declaration of Independence
2. The Bill of Rights
3. The Civil War
4. The Lincoln assassination
5. The First World War
6. Bombing of Pearl Harbor
7. Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki( WWII)
8. JFK Assassination
9. Apollo 11 lands on the moon
10. Challenger space shuttles explodes
2007-05-01 12:37:24 · answer #2 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amancipation proclamation
womens sufferage
the great stock market crash
Martin Luther Kings Assasination (or JFK's)
Landing on the Moon
Wright Brothers fly
Luoisiana Purchase
founding of the Pony Express
Prohabition
Building of the Hoover Dam
The depresion
Great American Dust Bowl
The making of the Atomic Bomb
those are just a few
2007-05-01 12:05:05 · answer #3 · answered by stetsonman_89 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Revolutionary War
Wiskey Rebellion
Shays Rebelion
Luisiana Purchase
Barbary pirates and Tripoli
California Gold Rush
US-Spanish war
The Great Awakening
The stock market crash and great depression
World War II
Vietnam/Korean wars
Nixons trip to China
The end of the Cold War
thats more than 10 for ya
2007-05-01 11:57:35 · answer #4 · answered by nekoolzec 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Founding of America
Writing/Signing of the Declaration of Indpendence
Writing/Signing of the Constitution
13 Colonies established
Adding Florida, Texas, and the rest of the United States land. (Louisiana purchase, etc.)
Lewis and Clark
French and Indian War
Boston Massacre
WW1
WW2
Civil War
American Civil Rights Movement
is that 10 yet?
2007-05-01 11:56:42 · answer #5 · answered by ♥Tiffany 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the withdraw of the articles of confederation
all the alphabet programs during the depression by Roosevelt like the, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) or the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) anything
the war of course, the revolutionary act
the passing of the civil rights acts by johnson
civil war
the enlightment age
19th suffrage- for women, equal rights
also, the fact that U.S. kept neutral for a long time until WWI i think, not sure
Immigration, the Irish and their patatoe famine problem and other groups
2007-05-01 12:05:23 · answer #6 · answered by iVEE =] 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2014-10-16 07:50:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 10 false flags that changed the world.
2007-05-01 11:52:42 · answer #8 · answered by jeb black 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Civil Rights Movement..still gotta ways to go...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Rights_Movement
2007-05-01 11:57:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) American Revolution
2) Civil War
3) Spanish American War
4) WWI
5)WWII
2007-05-01 11:55:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋