Native Americans crossed the over Beringia from Asia to America
1492
Christopher Columbus found America
1497
Vasco da Gama rounds the southern tip of Africa and calls at its eastern points
1497
John Cabot reaches newfoundland off Canada
1500
Pedro Alvares Cabral reaches Brazil
1507
Amerigo Vespucci and others explore the coast of South America
1508
Ponce de Leon claims Puerto Rico for Spain. in 1513 he lands in North America and names is La Florida
1519
Spain landed in Mexico
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The king Phillip war
600 English colonists and 3000 Indians lost their lives. there was a very large amount of murder and blood on both sides because of an accident. at least that's what people think started it.
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution goes into effect
George Washington becomes the first president of the USA
Labor unions started
Nathaniel Bowditch’s book on maritime navigation is published
The Louisiana Purchase
the Louis and Clark expedition
The second revolutionary war
The war of 1812/ the second war for American independence
The battle between Britains and Americans that influenced the Star Spangled Banner, or the US national anthem
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both die on the 50th birthday of the USA
The Mexican American war
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The California Gold Rush
Sojourner Truth gives her famous speech
The Kansas Nebraska act goes into effect and destroys the Missouri Compromise
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The American Civil War
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Homesteading in the plains
The Emancipation Proclamation
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Reconstruction in the US
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Cattle drives in Great Plains
Alaska purchased
First transcontinental railroad
Suez Canal opens
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Massive immigration to America
Carnegie builds steel mill
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Plains wars
First telephone conversation— Alexander Graham Bell
Edison invents electric light bulb
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Electricity for cities
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Jim Crow laws created
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Progressive era
The panic of 1893
Hawaii becomes US possession
Spanish American War
US gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific Islands
The US has become a world power
US takes over Panama Canal construction
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
Wright Brothers make first airplane flight
Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line
US opens the Panama Canal
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World War 1
Russian revolution
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World-wide depression
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World War 2
First atomic bomb exploded
Beginning of the cold war
Beginning of Cold War.
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Korean war
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American Civil Rights Movement
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American Civil Rights Movement
Korean War
Cuban revolution
Assassination of President Kennedy
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Vietnam War
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Vietnam War
MLK was assassinated
Collapse of Communism in Europe
End of the Cold War and break up of the Soviet Union