THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE U.S.A

1. THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE U.S.A Cristian Calderon

2. The battle of the cowpens1781 • The battle of the Cowpens was the turning point in the revolutionary war and it wasn’t even planned ,the continental forces led by brigadier general Daniel Morgan won the battle of cow pens and raised morale for the continental army to take the full offensive and win the revolutionary war

3. The Louisiana purchase 1803 • President Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from napoleon Bonaparte thus in creasing the USA land mass

4. 1825 the eerie canal was completed • The Erie canal was a trade route from new York to the lake Erie and created boom towns thus helping Americas economy

5. Andrew Jackson inaugurated 1829 • The beginning of the jacksonian era and the first democrat after being cheated out of office in the xyz affair by John Q. Adams, he won the election the term after he did good things( and bad things like the trail of tears, destroying the national bank).

6. The pony express 1860 -1861 • The pony express was the mailing service of the late 1800s unlike trains at the time which were only at the northern states of the union the pony express went cross country and it would only take 10 days to get from New York to California

7. The continental railroad1863 -1869 • The transcontinental railroad exceeded where the pony express lacked it took 6 years to make and it crossed the entire length of America the final spike was nailed in promontory summit Utah hammered in by president grant him self