American History

By RileyGlushakow
  • Period: 15,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE

    Migration out of Africa

  • 1400

    Prehistory

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus lands in the "Indies"

    He discovers America

  • Aztecs created the first calendar

    early 16th century

  • Jamestown gets settled

  • The starving time

    winter from 1609 to 1610

  • Jamestown was a wreck

    most of the colonist were dead and they were starving

  • Mayflower lands at Plymouth rock

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    King Philips War

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    Witch Trials in Salem

  • French and Indian War

  • Stamp Act passed

  • Battle at Yorktown

  • Boston Massacre

    The Red coats shot at a crowd of people and killed three of them

  • Boston Tea Party

  • The ride of Paul Revere

  • American Revolution Began

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The War on Bunker Hill

  • Tom Paine's book Common Sense was published

    It prompted the idea to get rid of monarchy in America

  • Battle on Sullivans Island

    The Americans destroyed British ships that were stuck on the sandbar

  • The Declaration of Independence was approved

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    The winter at Valley Forge

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    American whaling flourished

    American whaling flourished from the late 1700s through the mid-1800s.

  • The Constitution is ratified

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    George Washington's term

    1st president

  • First factory

  • Bill of Rights is ratified

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    Litchfield Female Academy

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    Sarah Pierces all girl school

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    Thaddeus Stevens

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    John Adam's term

    2nd president

  • John Adams signed the Sedition Act

    It was set to expire on March 3, 1801

  • Labor Union started

    late 1800s
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    Underground Railroad

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    John Brown

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    Thomas Jefferson's term

    3rd president: The Age of Jefferson

  • The New American Practical Navigator published

    by Nathaniel Bowditch
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    Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • First locomotive invented

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    James Madison's term

    4th president
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    Territorial expansion of the United States

    Manifest Destiny
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    The war of 1812

  • John C. Calhoun organized an exploring expedition

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    Canals were being constructed

  • Sequoyah creates syllabary

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    Harriet Tubman's Life

  • Mountain men have their first rendezvous

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    John Quincy Adams' term

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    The first Japanese immigrant

    Nakahama Manjiro
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    Andrew Jackson's term

  • Joseph Smith founded Mormons

  • Dinner at Brown's Hotel

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    Emily Dickinson

  • Trail of Tears

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    Texas War for independence

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    Mark Twain's Life

  • The economic panic

    people lost their jobs and owed a lot of money

  • Sarah and Angelina Grimké lecture tour

    The tour was about women's rights and slavery
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    Martin Van Buren's term

    8th president

  • Amistad

    Two Spanish plantation owners, Pedro Montes and Jose Ruiz, purchased 53 Africans and put them aboard the Cuban schooner Amistad to ship them to a Caribbean plantation.
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    Pioneers travel west

    1840s through 60s pioneers travel west

  • Frederick Douglass speaks up about abolition

  • The United States has three presidents

    Martin Van Buren's term ended March 4th, then William Henry Harrison became president. A month later he died and John Taylor became president.
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    Frémont's expedition

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    James K. Polk's term

  • The war of Mexico

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    California Gold Rush

  • Sojourner Truth's famous speech

    Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth delivered what would become her most famous speech.

  • First public school

    In Florida

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin published

  • Railroad track to Rock Island

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • John Brown's Raid

    to October 18, 1859
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    Immigration

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    Abraham Lincoln's term

    16th president

  • First fight in the Civil War

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    Civil War

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    Homesteading the plains

  • Emancipation Proclamation

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    Gettysburg battle

  • Fort Wagner Battle

    One of the first battles black troops could participate in

  • The Gettysburg Address

    Lincoln explained the meaning of war

  • Blacks can now serve in the army

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    Reconstruction

  • Abraham Lincoln is shot

    he was shot by John Wilkes Booth

  • Abraham Lincoln passed

    Andrew Johnson is sworn in as president the same day.
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    Andrew Johnson's Term

    17th president

  • The freedom of slaves is ratified

    13th Amendment
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    Cattle drives in Great Plains

  • Alaska Purchased

  • The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

  • First transcontinental railroad

  • Suez Canal opens

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    Ulysses S Grant's term

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    John D Rockefeller Monopoly

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    Massive immigration to America

  • Carnegie builds steel mill

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    Plains wars

  • Centennial Exposition

    The 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration

  • First telephone conversation

    Alexander Graham Bell
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    Rutherford Hayes' term

  • Edison invents electric light bulb

  • US Gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific Islands

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    Electricity for cities

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    Jim Crow Laws

    Segregation of blacks and whites

  • Wright Brothers make first airplane flight

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    Progressive Era

  • The Panic of 1893

  • Andrew Carnegie monopoly

  • Hawaii becomes US possession

  • Spanish-American War

  • United States becomes world power

  • US takes over Panama Canal construction

  • Theodore Roosevelt become president

  • Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line

  • US opens the Panama Canal

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    World War 1

  • Russian Revolution

    Revolution that overthrew the imperial government and placed the Bolsheviks in power.
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    World-wide Depression

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    World War 2

  • First atomic bomb exploded

  • Beginning of Cold War

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    Korean War

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    American Civil Rights Movement

    1950s-1960s

  • Cuban Revolution

  • The assassination of President Kennedy

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    Vietnam War

  • Collapse of Communism in Europe

  • End of the Cold War and Break up of the Soviet Union

  • Formation of the European Union

  • Terrorists attack American landmarks

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    Iraq War

  • Election of President Barack Obama