USA HISTORY

By camibuuuu
  • 16,000 BCE

    Empty land, first people from Asia to Alaska

  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus reached Caribbean

    The 'Indians'
  • Period: 1499 to 1502

    "America" because of Amerigo Vespucci who sailed to South America

  • Period: 1501 to

    Europeans came to America (brought African slaves)

  • John Smith told people New England was a good place to live

  • PILGRIMS ARRIVAL

    101 people arrived in ship called 'Mayflower' to Plymouth, Massachusetts

  • THANKSGIVING CREATION

    Pilgrims had dinner to give thanks for the 1st food they had grown themselves

  • 13 colonies along east coast governed by Britain

  • Period: to

    War between Americans and British

    It started because of the limited rights the Americans had. The Americans won.

  • Thomas Jefferson → 'Declaration of Independence'

  • Period: to

    George Washington became 1st president

  • Period: to

    USA bought a lot of territories

    The whole country was over 5,000 Km. The last territory to be added was Hawaii
  • Period: to

    2 Americans and 1 native travelled across America

    They made maps

  • Frederick Douglass escaped and fought for the rights of black people

  • Period: to

    Cities started to receive a lot of immigrants and grow

  • Period: to

    5 million Irish immigrants

  • Abraham Lincoln 16th president

    Republican → no slaves
  • Period: to

    Post carried by 'The pony express'

  • Period: to

    CIVIL WAR: between the South and North

    The south side wanted to have slaves and the north was against them. South Carolina wanted to be independent.

  • President Lincoln was shot

  • Vote given to black people

  • Indian wars ended

    Many Sioux were killed, Native Americans→ live on reservations

  • Railway line that linked east and west was built

  • Buffalos almost extinct

    They used Buffalos as their main source of food and clothes → they were almost extinct in the US

  • Black people started to get treated like people

    Better jobs, laws, rights

  • Martin Luther King began to fight for black rights

  • Hurricane Katrina

    Many black people lost their houses and were ignored by government

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