American History

By Loganricheson65
  • Period: 18,000 BCE to 14,000 BCE

    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

  • Period: to

    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

  • Formation of the European Union

  • Terrorist attack American landmarks

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    Iraq War

  • Election of President Barack Obama

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