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Period: 60,000 BCE to
Pre-History
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1300
Native Americans Crossed the Land Bridge Through Beringia.
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1492
Christopher Reaches the Bahamas
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Jamestown
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Plymouth
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King Phillip's War
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Stamp Tax
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Boston Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
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1st Continental Congress
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Revolutionary War
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Declaration of Independence
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United States Constitution Signed
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Lewis and Clark Expedition
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Missouri Compromise
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Trail of Tears
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Period: to
Mexican War
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Gold Rush Begins
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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American Civil War
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Homesteading the Plains
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Reconstruction Era
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Cattle Drives in Great Plains
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Alaska Purchased
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Suez Canal Opens
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First Transcontinental Railroad
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Massive Immigration to America
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Carnegie Builds Steel Mill
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Plains War
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First Telephone Conversation
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Edison Invents Electric Lightbulb
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Electricity For Cities
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The Panic of 1883
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Jim Crow Laws Created
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Labor Unions Started
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Progressive Era
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Hawaii Becomes U.S Possesion
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Spanish-American War
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U.S Gains Control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and Other Pacific Islands
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United States Has Become a World Power
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Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President
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U.S. Takes over Panama Canal Construction
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Wright Brothers Make First Airplane Flight
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Henry Ford Builds Cars on Assembly Line
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U.S. Opens the Panama Canal
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Period: to
World War I
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Russian Revolution
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The Great Depression
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World War II
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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
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Cuban Revolution
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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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Period: to
Iraq War
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Election of President Barack Obama
