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Pangaea Splits
200 million years ago the split occurs -
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Beringia
30,000 years ago, the sea levels falling, the ice bridge known as Beringia, forms between Siberia and Alaska, enabling humans to enter America -
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Spreading Population
15,000 years ago, according to archaeological evidence, there was a widespread population of humans -
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Man First Comes to North America
14,300BC -
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Newfound Land
8000BC as ice caps recede, hunter-gatherers move up the eastern side of America into newfound land and the prairie provinces of Canada -
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First Cave Drawings
6000 years ago -
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Hunt to Extinction
1500BC to 1500AD on the grass plains of North America, hunters gradually hunt to extinction several American species, including the camel, the mammoth and the horse -
Jan 8, 600
Extinct
1000BC by now, the mammoth, the giant bison, and the horse are all extinct in America partly because of the warming climate and partly because the success of humans with spears -
Jan 9, 1492
Columbus Finds America
1492 Columbus sails the ocean blue and discovers North America -
Roanoke Island
1585 Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, is settled by the first english colonists in America-with disastrous results -
Virginia Dare
First English born in america, Roanoke Island, 1587 -
Jamestown
1607 Jamestown settled, Englishmen meet the unfriendly Powhatan Indians, John Smith meets Pocahontas -
John Smith
John claims (a year later, 1608) that when captured by Indians intending to kill him, he was rescued by the Powhatan princess, Pocahontas -
The Hudson
1609 Henry Hudson reaches the inlet of New York Bay (now known by his name) and explores -
Pocahontas
1614 Pocahontas Baptized as a Christian, and marries John Rolfe, one of the Jamestown settlers then goes to England with him in 1616 -
Mayflower
September 16, 1620, Pilgrims, or Pilgrim Fathers, a group of 102 English settlers, sail in the Mayflower to the new world -
Samuel Sewall
1700 Boston merchant Samuel Sewall publishes "The Selling of Joseph," a very ANTI-slavery tract -
Louisiana Company
1717 Scottish entrepreneur John Law establishes the Louisiana company to develop the Mississippi valley for France -
Benjamin Franklin
1722 16 year old Benjamin Franklin produces the Silence Dogood Letters essays on moral topics, to a Boston journal, The New England Courant -
Black Slavery
1725 The population of black slaves in the American colonies reaches 75,000. -
Throne
1727 King George II ascends the English throne. -
Baltimore
1730 Baltimore is founded in Maryland colony -
The Molasses Act
1733 he Molasses Act, passed by the English Parliament, imposes heavy duties on molasses, rum and sugar imported from non-British islands in the Caribbean to protect the English planters there from French and Dutch competition. -
England VS Spain
1739 England declares war on Spain. As a result, in America, hostilities break out between Florida Spaniards and Georgia and South Carolina colonists. Also in 1739, three separate violent uprisings by black slaves occur in South Carolina. -
Hanging
1740 Fifty black slaves are hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, after plans for another revolt are revealed. Also in 1740, in Europe, the War of the Austrian Succession begins after the death of Emperor Charles VI and eventually results in France and Spain allied against England. The conflict is known in the American colonies as King George's War and lasts until 1748.. -
This Land is My Land
1754 - The French and Indian War erupts as a result of disputes over land in the Ohio River Valley. In May, George Washington leads a small group of American colonists to victory over the French, then builds Fort Necessity in the Ohio territory. In July, after being attacked by numerically superior French forces, Washington surrenders the fort and retreats. -
Indians
1759 war erupts between Cherokee Indians and southern colonists. -
Colonists
1760 - The population of colonists in America reaches 1,500,000. In March, much of Boston is destroyed by a raging fire. In September, Quebec surrenders to the English. In October, George III becomes the new English King. -
Stamp Act
1765 - In March, the Stamp Act is passed by the English Parliament imposing the first direct tax on the American colonies, to offset the high costs of the British military organization in America. Thus for the first time in the 150 year old history of the British colonies in America, the Americans will pay tax not to their own local legislatures in America, but directly to England. -
Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770 - The Boston Massacre occurs as a mob harasses British soldiers who then fire their muskets pointblank into the crowd, killing three instantly, mortally wounding two others and injuring six. After the incident, the new Royal Governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, at the insistence of Sam Adams, withdraws British troops out of Boston to nearby harbor islands. The captain of the British soldiers, Thomas Preston, is then arrested along with eight of his men and charged with mur -
The Power Trilogy
June 19, 1787 - Rather than revise the Articles of Confederation, delegates at the constitutional convention vote to create an entirely new form of national government separated into three branches - the legislative, executive and judicial - thus dispersing power with checks and balances, and competing factions, as a measure of protection against tyranny by a controlling majority. -
1800-1810s
List of Events:
American independence was only 25 years old
The capital moved from Philadelphia to Washington
Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in the famous duel
Louisiana purchased
Travel from Charleston to Philadelphia took 15 days by stage
The importation of slaves to the United States was banned
Johnny Appleseed arrived in the Ohio Valley with seeds from Philadelphia
Robert Fulton's paddle steamer navigated the Hudson River. -
1810-1820
List of Events:
War of 1812
Indians in America's west were warring for their own land
In 1811 Congress ordered a survey to establish accurate distances between towns
Trading posts were begun in the west
the first steamboat went on the Ohio River
Frances Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner.
Monroe announced 'The Era of Good Feeling'
Capitalism flourished and the working class grew
Before decade's end, there was a boom and a panic. -
1820-1830
List of Events:
The first woman was nominated for the presidency
Boston streets were lit with gas
Americans adopted coffee as a popular drink -
1830-1840
List of Events:
Laws were passed giving married women the right to retain their own property
Nat Turner's slave revolt failed
George Pullman designed the railroad car
Abner Doubleday laid out the first baseball field and the first ballgame was played in Cooperstown
The Whig party was established
Texas won its independance from Mexico
Late in the decade, the United States suffered an economic depression resulting in the closing of businesses and banks -
1840-1850
List of Events:
During the past year approximately 40,000 Indians had resettled in Indian territory and were self-governing
Immigrants continued to arrive on the U.S. shores, especially from Ireland after the potato famine of 1845
John Fremont left with his party to explore the route to Oregon beyond the Mississippi river crossing the Continental Divide
Congress established the Smithsonian Institution, using a gift from James Smithson in 1829 -
1850-1860
List of Events:
It was mid-century and the states were brewing over slavery
Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin
The harsh Fugitive Slave Bill was passed
The first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pa. -
1860-1870
List of Events:
Shaves were 6 cents, haircuts 12 cents, shampoos 25 cents, and mink muffs were advertised in the New York Times for $10each
Maria Mitchell became the first woman professor of Astronomy
Gold was discovered in Wyoming
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving Day as a holiday
Ku Klux Klan had its beginnings in Nashville in 1865 -
1870-1880
List of Events:
The great fire of Chicago
P.T. Barnum's The Greatest Show on Earth
first public telephones
Tennis introduced to Americans -
1880-1890
List of Events:
U.S. frontiersman W.F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody organizes his 'wild west show.'
Excluding blacks from jury duty was held unconstitutional
Canned fruits and meats appear in stores -
Adolph F. Bandelier
October 23, 1880 - Adolph F. Bandelier enters Frijoles Canyon, New Mexico, under the guidance of Cochiti Indians and witnesses the prehistoric villages and cliff dwellings of the national monument that is named after him. -
O.K. Corral in Tombstone
October 26, 1881 - The gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona occurs in a livery stable lot between some of the famous characters of the American west; Sheriff Wyatt Earp, his brother Virgil, and Doc Holliday against Billy Claiborne, Frank and Tom McLaury and the Clanton brothers Billy and Ike. Although only thirty seconds long, the battle would live in western lore for more than one hundred years. The McLaury brothers and Billy Clanton would perish in the fight. -
Frederick Douglass
1883 the famous black leader and former run away slave addressed a gathering of African Americans in Louisville, Kentucky. Twenty years had passed since Lincoln had issued the Imancipation Proclaimation, yet as Douglass observed, Africans had not realized their hope for equality. -
James G. Blaine
November 4, 1884 - Grover Cleveland claim victory for the Democratic Party, gaining 277 Electoral College votes to the 182 Electoral College votes for the Republic candidate James G. Blaine. -
Ulysses S. Grant Dies
July 23, 1885 - President Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War hero of federal forces, dies in Mt. McGregor, New York. -
1890-1900
List of Events:
Beginning of America's Gilded Age
23,000 children were employed in the factories of the 13 southern states
Congress passed the International Copyright Act
General Electric company was formed -
The Galveston Texas Hurricane
September 8, 1900 - The Galveston, Texas hurricane, with winds of 135 miles an hour, kills 8,000 people. It remains the most deadly natural disaster in American history. It was not named, during that era, and would have been a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale today. -
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
May 1, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research is founded -
The First Theatre
April 2, 1902 - The first movie theatre in the United States opens in Los Angeles, California. It was known as the Electric Theatre. -
San Francisco Earthquake
April 18-19, 1906 - The San Francisco earthquake was estimated at 7.8 on the Richter scale. Its proximity to the epicenter of the San Andreas Fault and the subsequent fire that followed the quake and aftershocks left 478 reported death, although estimates in the future peg that figure at nearly 3,000. Between $350-$400 million in damages were sustained. -
Homeward Bound
January 28, 1909 - The troops of the United States leave Cuba for the first time since the beginning of the Spanish-American War. -
Together We Can
May 25, 1910 - The only flight taken together by Wilbur and Orville Wright occurs at Huffman Prairie Flying Field in Dayton, Ohio. Later that same year, on November 7, the first flight to carry freight would depart from Huffman and deliver its cargo to Columbus, Ohio. -
And The Winner Is Wilson
November 5, 1912 - In the first election of a Democratic candidate since 1892, Woodrow Wilson overcame a three way race for the presidency when former President Teddy Roosevelt donned the nomination of the Progressive Party to tackle the election against Wilson and incumbant President and Republican William Howard Taft. This split caused the election of Wilson, who garnered 435 Electoral College votes to 88 for Roosevelt and only 8 for Taft. -
World War 1
1914 - WORLD WAR I BEGINS IN EUROPE
July 28th, 1914:Austria-Hungary declare war on Serbia
August 1st, 1914:Germany declares war on Russia
August 3rd, 1914:Germany declares war on France
August 4th, 1914: Germany invades neutral Belgium.
August 4th, 1914: Britain declares war on Germany.
August 4th, 1914: US President Woodrow Wilson declares policy of US neutrality. -
We Get Involved
1917 - "Zimmerman Telegram" -
- U.S. ENTERS WORLD WAR I -
At An End
1918 - WORLD WAR I ENDS -
League of Nations
January 10, 1920 - The League of Nations holds its first meeting and accomplishes the rafitification of the Treaty of Versailles, ending the hostilities of the first World War. Nine days later the United States Senate votes against joining the League. -
Peace for World War 1
July 2, 1921 - A Congressional resolution by both houses is signed by President Warren G. Harding, declaring peace in World War I hostilities with Germany, Austria, and Hungary. The treaties would be executed one month later. -
The Five Power Disarmament Treaty
February 6, 1922 - The Armaments Congress ends. It would lead to an agreement, the Five Power Disarmament Treaty, between the major world powers of the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States, to limit naval construction, outlaw poison gas, restrict submarine attacks on merchant fleets and respect China's sovereignty. -
Calvin Coolidge
August 2, 1923 - President Warren G. Harding dies in office after becoming ill following a trip to Alaska, and is succeeded by his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge would oppose the League of Nations, but approved of the World Court. -
President of Germany
1925 - PAUL VON HINDENBURG ELECTED PRESIDENT OF GERMANY -
The Fake Fuehrer
1934 - HINDENBURG DIES, HITLER APPOINTS HIMSELF PRESIDENT - “ FUEHRER” -
Franklin D Roosevelt
1936 - FDR RE-ELECTED
- GERMANY AND ITALY SIGN “AXIS” TREATY -
Hindenburg Burns
1937 - German airship HINDENBURG BURNS IN NEW JERSEY -
Invasion Starts World War 2
1939 - (SEPTEMBER) WORLD WAR II STARTS IN EUROPE with German Invasion of Poland. In just five weeks Poland surrenders to Germany. -
World War 2
1940 - (May) Germany invades Holland, Belgium and France – Churchill becomes P.M.
- (May 30) British evacuate Continent at Dunkirk
- (June) France Surrenders
