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Period: 15,000 BCE to 20,000 BCE
Migration out of Africa
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1400
Prehistory
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus lands in the "Indies"
He discovers America -
Aztecs created the first calendar
early 16th century -
Jamestown gets settled
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The starving time
winter from 1609 to 1610 -
Jamestown was a wreck
most of the colonist were dead and they were starving -
Mayflower lands at Plymouth rock
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King Philips War
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Witch Trials in Salem
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French and Indian War
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Stamp Act passed
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Battle at Yorktown
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Boston Massacre
The Red coats shot at a crowd of people and killed three of them -
Boston Tea Party
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The ride of Paul Revere
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American Revolution Began
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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The War on Bunker Hill
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Tom Paine's book Common Sense was published
It prompted the idea to get rid of monarchy in America -
Battle on Sullivans Island
The Americans destroyed British ships that were stuck on the sandbar -
The Declaration of Independence was approved
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The winter at Valley Forge
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American whaling flourished
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The Constitution is ratified
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George Washington's term
1st president -
First factory
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Bill of Rights is ratified
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Litchfield Female Academy
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Sarah Pierces all girl school
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Thaddeus Stevens
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John Adam's term
2nd president -
John Adams signed the Sedition Act
It was set to expire on March 3, 1801 -
Labor Union started
late 1800s -
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Underground Railroad
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John Brown
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Thomas Jefferson's term
3rd president: The Age of Jefferson -
The New American Practical Navigator published
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
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First locomotive invented
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James Madison's term
4th president -
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Territorial expansion of the United States
Manifest Destiny -
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The war of 1812
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John C. Calhoun organized an exploring expedition
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Canals were being constructed
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Sequoyah creates syllabary
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Harriet Tubman's Life
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Mountain men have their first rendezvous
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John Quincy Adams' term
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The first Japanese immigrant
Nakahama Manjiro -
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Andrew Jackson's term
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Joseph Smith founded Mormons
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Dinner at Brown's Hotel
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Emily Dickinson
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Trail of Tears
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Texas War for independence
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Mark Twain's Life
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The economic panic
people lost their jobs and owed a lot of money -
Sarah and Angelina Grimké lecture tour
The tour was about women's rights and slavery -
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Martin Van Buren's term
8th president -
Amistad
Two Spanish plantation owners, Pedro Montes and Jose Ruiz, purchased 53 Africans and put them aboard the Cuban schooner Amistad to ship them to a Caribbean plantation. -
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Pioneers travel west
1840s through 60s pioneers travel west -
Frederick Douglass speaks up about abolition
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The United States has three presidents
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Frémont's expedition
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James K. Polk's term
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The war of Mexico
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California Gold Rush
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Sojourner Truth's famous speech
Woman's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth delivered what would become her most famous speech. -
First public school
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Uncle Tom's Cabin published
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Railroad track to Rock Island
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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John Brown's Raid
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Immigration
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Abraham Lincoln's term
16th president -
First fight in the Civil War
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Civil War
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Homesteading the plains
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Gettysburg battle
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Fort Wagner Battle
One of the first battles black troops could participate in -
The Gettysburg Address
Lincoln explained the meaning of war -
Blacks can now serve in the army
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Reconstruction
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Abraham Lincoln is shot
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Abraham Lincoln passed
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Andrew Johnson's Term
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The freedom of slaves is ratified
13th Amendment -
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Cattle drives in Great Plains
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Alaska Purchased
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The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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First transcontinental railroad
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Suez Canal opens
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Ulysses S Grant's term
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John D Rockefeller Monopoly
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Massive immigration to America
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Carnegie builds steel mill
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Plains wars
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Centennial Exposition
The 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration -
First telephone conversation
Alexander Graham Bell -
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Rutherford Hayes' term
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Edison invents electric light bulb
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US Gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific Islands
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Electricity for cities
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Jim Crow Laws
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Wright Brothers make first airplane flight
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Progressive Era
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The Panic of 1893
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Andrew Carnegie monopoly
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Hawaii becomes US possession
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Spanish-American War
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United States becomes world power
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US takes over Panama Canal construction
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Theodore Roosevelt become president
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Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line
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US opens the Panama Canal
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World War 1
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Russian Revolution
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World-wide Depression
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World War 2
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First atomic bomb exploded
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Beginning of Cold War
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Korean War
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American Civil Rights Movement
1950s-1960s -
Cuban Revolution
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The assassination of President Kennedy
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Vietnam War
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Collapse of Communism in Europe
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End of the Cold War and Break up of the Soviet Union
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Formation of the European Union
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Terrorists attack American landmarks
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Iraq War
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Election of President Barack Obama