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This timeline will provide you with information from 1492-1877. The time span may also be known as when Christopher Columbus sailed the Atlantic to the great r5ail road strike.
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In 1492, 1493, 1498, and 1502, the explorer Christopher Columbus completed four voyages from Spain across the Atlantic Ocean to what is known now as the Bahamas. He was determined to locating a straight water passage from Europe to Asia, but he was never successful. Instead, he found the Americas by accident. -
104 English men and boys traveled to North America in 1607 to establish a settlement. They chose Jamestown, Virginia, on May 13 and gave it the name of their king, James I. The community was the country's first permanent English colony. -
The adult male passengers of the Mayflower signed the Mayflower Compact on November 11, 1620, in order to maintain law and order and create a civil society while they awaited the issuance of this new patent. -
American founding father Benjamin Franklin was one among its earliest users. In 1754, he produced the cartoon "Join or Die," which featured a serpent that had been cut into parts to represent the American colonies. -
Patrick Henry reportedly pleaded for freedom before a Virginia assembly on March 23, 1765 saying, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" This was a precursor to the American Revolution. -
On June 7, 1769, Daniel Boone started his exploration of Kentucky. -
On March 5, 1770, late in the day, British sentries at the Boston Customs House opened fire into a crowd of bystanders, killing three men and critically wounding eight more. -
The Centinel's debut issue was released on March 24, 1784, by Russell and William Warden, a journeyman printer who had been working for two years. Russell took over as the only editor on March 22, 1786, after Warden passed away. Russell was a proponent of expanding the scope of the federal government from the beginning. -
Around 12.5 million abducted men, women, and children were loaded into ships in Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade era, which stretched from roughly 1526 to 1867, and 10.7 million of them made it to the Americas. Of all long-distance international migrations, the Atlantic Slave Trade was probably the most detrimental to human life. -
In 1789, Washington takes office as president of the United States. The first presidential election in the history of the United States was held from December 1788 to January 1789 over a few weeks. 69 of the 69 first-round votes voted in the US Electoral College went to Washington, who was elected. -
With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States started building up on territory west of the Mississippi River. By negotiating a price of $15 million to buy 828,800 square miles from France, including all or part of 14 modern states, President Thomas Jefferson nearly doubled the size of the country. -
George Washington is shown ascending into the sky in the Apotheosis. Washington is positioned in the middle, flanked by allegories of Liberty/Authority and Victory/Fame, and a rainbow cuts through the clouds directly under him. He is surrounded by 13 original state-representing women wearing flowing robes. -
From 1829 until 1837, Andrew Jackson served as the seventh President of the United States and aimed to serve as the person's voice. -
The alleged lack of Native American integration into Anglo-American society, ongoing westward settlement by Americans, the Jackson administration's pro-removal stance, and leftover hostility from previous battles were the four main causes of the Indian Removal Act. -
In 1767, Boone traveled across the Cumberland Gap for the first time on a hunting expedition. In 1773, Daniel Boone attempted to take his family and a number of other people to establish in Kentucky. However, the company was assaulted by Cherokee Indians, and two of the would-be settlers, including James Boone, were killed. -
The artwork honors the idea that the American West was a place of untainted beauty and boundless potential for a brighter future. It promotes "manifest destiny," the idea that America's duty to colonize and civilize the West was divinely mandated — a union of nation-building and religion. -
On April 12, 1861, the Confederates attacked Union forces at Fort Sumter in South Carolina, sparking the start of the war. Spring 1865 marked the conclusion of the war. On April 9, 1865, in Appomattox Courthouse, Robert E. Lee handed over to Ulysses S. Grant the last significant Confederate army. -
If a compromise with the Confederacy is sought, Union soldiers' limbs and lives will have been in vain, and black Americans will be returned to slavery (as depicted in the cartoon's background; note also that the black man is a Union soldier). -
The Reconstruction era (1861–1901), during which the United States dealt with the dilemma of how to integrate millions of newly liberated African Americans into social, political, and labor systems, was a period of major change in the country. -
Tolerance is another common element in Rockwell's artwork. The mosaic takes on the subject of human rights while portraying people of all races, creeds, and colors with respect and dignity. The Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," is written on the mosaic's surface.