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Selected Events in United States History

This website was created as part of a Lincoln Adult Education Center Class C project.
This project was partially funded by an EL Civics Grant.

Click on a date to read students' summaries of these events in U.S. history.

Many Africans were kidnapped as slaves.
1700s
 

Slavery was made illegal in the United States.
1863

 
The Great Depression started.
1929
 
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1770
(Reading 1)

British soldiers shot a crowd of Americans in the Boston Massacre.
1770
(Reading 2)

 
   
1918
25% of Americans got the Spanish Flu.


 
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1917-1945
American children helped during the World Wars.

 

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