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Bridge between Siberia and Alaska
A 100 mile bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska during the last ice age scienctist show it was formed 20-25 thousand years ago -
Jan 6, 1492
Colombian Exchange
It brought over diseases to the new world which were immune for the Europeans but killed hundreds of native Americans also they brought new types of plants and foods animals and introduce guns to natives -
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Triangular trade
Late 16th to 19th centuries passed goods and slaves between west Africa and carribian and American colonies slaves would jump off board causing sharks to follow to the same trail everyday and say sharks still wait in hopes of food -
Jamestown
First British colony in North America expedition led by John smith and was founded by the Virginia company later on the people started to die off by disease,starvation, and death by fighting native tribes later on there wealth grew my the production of tobacco -
First slaves
In Jamestown in 1619 Slater exchanged several African slaves for food as a slave and underclass they were better and then indentured servant's used before -
Proclamation line
Hey limits set by King George the third at the appellation Mountains to stop calling us from expanding into native territory it increased tension between colonist and the king -
Treaty of paris
It ended the American revolution and also grand America the 13 states -
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Louisiana purchase
Land bought my America doubling the size and Tomas Jefferson hired Lewis and Clark to explore the land -
Erie canal
Waterway built across new rock state linking Eire and Hudson River opened trade and aided growth to new york -
Railroads
Led to developments of towns more trade and help the north eventually win the war in the civil war -
Gold rush
Gold was found my James w marshal at sitters mill which brought many to California in luck for gold -
Homestead act
Citizens could apply for a Homestead, and receive 160 acres of land from the government. The homesteaders would need to farm and irrigate the poor, dry land for 5 years. -
Homestead act
Citizens would apply for homestead and receive 160 acres of land from the govt would need to farm for 5 years -
Cities emerge
After the civil war Americans became more focused on industrializing making a country more technology advanced is that many Americans moving into cities with the help of any more money and that they would farm is a more focused on industrializing in making a country more technology in advance is that many Americans moving into cities with the hope of any more money and that they would farm as a farmer -
Sierra club
Formed by John muir nation to preserve the wilderness and earth natural resources -
Manifest destiny
Belief of moving coast to coast fueled settlement people settled from east to west -
Dust bowl
Soil in the midwest was eroded and picked up with wind in Oklahioma, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado, creating great dust storms. This completly ruined agraculture and worsened the alread present drought; it was partially cuaused by poor farming tactics of laying down loose soil. -
Intestate highway
Proposed by President Eisenhower, this system of roads ran all across the United States. It's primary purpose was to connect western America to eastern America, so that goods and resources could be transported quickly and efficiently -
Oil embargo
To protest americans would protest of the the Iranian oil sector it was an energy crisis made a lot of cars without gas to run on