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Columbus discovers America
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The Europeans brought diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, smallpox, measles and influenza to the indigenous population. Native Amrican numbers fell from 80 million to less than 1 million in less than 500 years.
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Captain John Smith explorer and founder of Jamestown
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The Mayflower arrived at Plymouth to found first colony in New England
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Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
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The First Reservations were established by Puritans near New Haven, Connecticut
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The Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars
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Dumping of tea in the Boston harbor to protest taxes by the England.
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War in Alabama and Georgia between the Creek Indians and American forces led by Andrew Jackson. The American forces won.
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Peoria war was with Us army settlers and tribes of Potawatomi and the Kickapoo tribes in Illinois.
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First Seminole War was in Florida with Seminole Indian tribe defending their land and runaway slaves
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Winnebago War in Wisconsin with settlers and and miners who were trespassing on Winnebago land.
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The Cherokee were the last of the 5 tribes forced to walk to trial of tears.
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The Sioux Wars in South Dakota, Minnesota and Wyoming led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
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Apache Wars in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas led by Geronimo and Cochise. Geronimo surrendered in 1886 but others carried on the fight until 1900
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U.S. Congress passes Homestead Act opening the Great Plains to settlers
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White men recognized the Indigenous land but did not believe they had legal rights to it.
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The Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota. Chief Big Foot led the last stand of Sioux
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W. B. Sherrard in South Dakota wanted to encode in policy to easily terminate parental rights from Native Americans
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Charles Curtis is the first American Indian elected to the U.S. Senate
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All Indians declared citizens of U.S.