The Most Important Things In American History

There are many events that occurred that became the foundation of present day America. The five most important historical events that occurred during American History were: the Renaissance; the European Reformation; the life of George Washington; concept of Manifest Destiny; and racism. These events each had a significant impact that formed the concepts that are used throughout America today; and, if they never happened or happened differently society would have been greatly affected.

The events that comes to mind when most of people talk about the U.S history are the Civil War and the Reconstruction. The Civil War was the turning point in the U.S history, while the Reconstruction brought order out of chaos of the Civil War. After all these, the U.S grows rapidly and becomes a superpower today. From my perspective, the most important cause of the Civil War is the conflict between the northern capitalism economy and the sourthern plantation economy. And the Reconstruction did spread freedom and brought more oppotunities, but it still remain a varirty of problems.

I think the Revolutionary War is the most important because it’s what made America become a country. We had been with Britain and they didn’t treat us fairly compared to what they treated people over their. The king made acts or laws that were unnecessary to present day America. For instance the king made a law that America could only buy tea from them. So they raised the prices way up to get money. In reaction we dressed like their workers and went on to their ships that carried the tea over, and dumped them all into the ocean. America told the king many times that they wanted to become their own country but the king refused and started the war. I think this is the most important because it was the war that made us become independent.If this didn’t happen i’m sure it eventually would, but this way it happened with the right people.

The often told story of America’s founding begins the Founding fathers waged a revolution and created a unique place called the United States of America. This story may include the early Jamestown colony and puritan colonists, and at times deal with the depollution and dispossession of the America’s native inhabitants. However frequently the complex nature of America’s prerevolutionary era is left out. Daniel Richter offers a refreshing non-teleological revision by showing that the United States has a much deeper history. Richter presents America as a nation with multiple pasts that stretch back as far as the middle ages. These pasts, he argues, continue to be felt in the present. Richter’s history utilizes a vast array of primary sources and his cultural history spans more than seven centuries. Richter works to recover the histories of an intermingling sort of individuals from North America, Europe, and Africa. The struggle for control of land and resources of these individuals took place in a global context. This multilayer struggle gradually gave rise to a distinctive American culture. Richter argues that by dissecting and understanding this culture on its own—and not as a build-up to an inevitable revolution—reveals the origins of American history.

Sixteen Most Significant Events in U.S. History between 1789 to 1975 After a review of United States' history from 1789 to 1975, I have identified what I believe are the sixteen most significant events of that time period. The attached sheet identifies the events and places them in brackets by time period. The following discussion provides my reasoning for selecting each of the events and my opinion as to their relative importance in contrast to each other. Finally, I have concluded that of the sixteen events, the Civil War had the most significant impact on the history of the time period in which it occurred and remains the most significant event in American history.

1-) The Civil war was one of the top most important thing in our history. This was our nation splitting into two parts. The South wanted to keep the slaves for work and the voting benefit, while the North did not think that the slaves should be treated in that way. President Abraham Lincoln at the time was the 16th person to hold office believed in the Declaration of Independence, because he wanted everyone to have a choice to be free. Due to the war both sides lost a great amount of soldiers, it is said to believe that the war lasted four long years. The North won because eventually the South lost all ammunition and was not able to keep on fighting. Although the slavery finally ended the racism did not stop. This is a big step towards peoples voice being heard.

The three topics that are the most important in United States history is the construction of the first settlement, the civil war, and the Progressive Era. Each of the three topics I chose is a key point in United States history and is spread out on the line of events. The first settlement in the United States was Jamestown and was located in the northeast part of the country. The establishment built the foundation of the United States of America. About two hundred years later the Civil War changed American society and the aftermath still leaves an impacting effect on people to this day. The last important event, the Progressive Era, showed growth in the nation as a whole.

I was born on April 4, 1997 in Houston, Texas. On this day, NASA’s space shuttle, Columbia 22, was launched. The price of gas on this day was $1.203 and the federal minimum wage was $5.15 an hour. The median family income was $36,210 per year. The most popular song that week was wannabe by the Spice Girls. The temperature on this day had a high of 76° and a low of 69°.

There are many important events/wars that took place in North America, but the war that really caught my eye was the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War was an major event that helped us as Americans gain the freedom and independence we have today. The Revolutionary War also helped sparked the Declaration of Independence.

The American Revolution. A turning point for our country. We said we were ready to be our own country, we said we didn’t need a babysitter, they didn’t listen, and they found out in some unexpected ways just how ready we were.

There is a first for everything we know today, and it all had to start somewhere. The first of anything has a huge impact on countries and the world, these firsts are definitely a crucial part of life today. Firsts in our history range from militaries, parachutes, voting, to even steamboats. One major first in United States history is the creation of the first United States Military. After the Revolutionary War ended, George Washington realized they needed to create a better force for fighting future wars and battles. For a while, congress ignored the topic until George Washington pushed hard enough to persuade them to address the issue. Finally, in Washington, September twenty ninth, 1789 congress passed an act that established the first United states military. Although this probably meant very little change to the men already serving, but it meant a lot to George Washington. Over

American independence has advanced from the time this country began to now. Many men and women of significance in the country, have passed between then and now. All have left their mark in history, whether it be physical and verbal. Three stand out to me: Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D Roosevelt, and Susan B Anthony. Franklin D Roosevelt 's “Four Freedoms” speech and “Request for Declaration of War on Japan”, Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address” and “Second Inaugural Address”, and Susan B Anthony’s “Women’s Right to the Suffrage”. These five speeches changed America at the time to what we have and live by today.

First up in the number one spot is the American Revolution. I think that the American Revolution is easily one of the most important events in U.S. history. The patriots (Americans) beat the greatest military force at the time. The americans, under enormous amounts of pressure to win the war pulled through and wrecked the British. This set the look that America was a force to be reckoned with. Britain created some acts, the acts annoyed the Americans, so they fought for independence. I think this event is number one because it was the birth of our beautiful country.

The Civil War. It tore the country apart, and the victory of the north put the nation back together. Slavery was abolished in the year of 1865 as the 13th amendment was added to the constitution by the congress.There was violent racism and segregation at the start of 1913 and lasted for a very long time. Now the country is together as one not judging one another by race or gender etc. To think that this might have all been avoidable if the Civil War never happened, but the past cannot be changed. People should just be glad that now in America people try to live together in peace ignoring their

American society is known for having the highest standard of living across the globe; this is solely due to the consumerist culture that is brought forth by capitalism. Americans in the U.S. take pride in these standards and in the freedoms that this democratic nation has established. The 20th century will always be remembered in American history as a century of radical changes on the social and political fronts of the nation. Literature, too, evolved quickly from specific, compartmentalized fields which fit into categories, to works which had no set definition—nobody knew what to do with them. These changes also took place in poetry; artistic expression began to change across the arts and so did the mediums. Poets across the nation