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Period: 20,000 BCE to 15,000 BCE
Crossed through Beringia
Native Americans crossed the land bridge through Beringia into North America. -
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Prehistory
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1492
Columbus reaches the Bahamas
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Jamestown founded
England’s first permanent colony in North America. -
Starving Time
Jamestown colonists died from no food, sickness, horrible leaders, and wars between Indians. They did not receive the food supplies from the Virginia Colony. -
Plymouth
Puritans, Separatists, and Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower. -
Stamp Tax
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King Phillip's War
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Salem Witch Trials
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Boston Tea Party
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Boston Massacre
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1st Continental Congress
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Battle of Lexington & Concord
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Revolutionary War
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Declaration of Independence
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U.S. Constitution signed
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Labor unions started-late 1800s
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Missouri Compromise
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Trail of Tears
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Mexican War
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Gold Rush begins
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Published
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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American Civil War
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Homesteading the plains
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Reconstruction
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Cattle drives in Great Plains
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Alaska Purchased
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First transcontinental railroad
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Sues Canal opens
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Massive immigration to America
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Carnegie builds steel mill
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Plains Wars
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First telephone conversation—Alexander Graham Bell
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Jim Crow Laws created
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Progressive Era
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The Panic of 1893
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Hawaii becomes U.S. possession
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Spanish-American War
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U.S gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific islands
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United States has become a world power
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U.S takes over Panama Canal constuction
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Theodore Roosevelt become President
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Wright brothers make first airplane flight
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Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line
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U.S.. opens the Panama Canal
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WW1
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Russian Revolution
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World-wide depression
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World War II
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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First atomic bomb exploded
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Beginning of Cold War
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Korean War
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Cuban Revolution
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Assasination of President Kennedy
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Collapse of Communism in Europe
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End of the Cold War and Break up of the Soviet Union
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Formation of the Europe Union
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Terrorists attack American landmarks
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Iraq War
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Election of President Barack Obama
