American History

  • Period: 20,000 BCE to 1400

    Prehistory

  • 1400

    Prehistory

  • 1492

    Columbus reaches the Bahamas

  • Jamestown

  • Plymouth

  • Stamp Tax

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    King Phillip's War

  • Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre

  • 1st Continental Congress

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

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    Revolutionary War

  • Declaration of Independence

  • United States Constitution signed

  • Labor unions started

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    Lewis and Clark

  • Missouri Compromise

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    Trail of Tears

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    Mexican War

  • Gold Rush Begins

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

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    American Civil War

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    Homesteading the plains

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    Reconstruction

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    Cattle Drives in Great Plains

  • Alaska Purchased

  • First transcontinental railroad

  • Suez Canal Opens

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    Massive immigration to America

  • Carnegie builds steel mill

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    Plain Wars

  • First telephone conversation Alexander Graham Bell

  • Edison invents electric light bulb

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    Electricity for cities

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    Jim Crow Laws Created

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    Progressive Era

  • The panic of 1893

  • Spanish-American War

  • Hawaii becomes U.S. possesion

  • U.S. gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific islands

  • Unites States has become a world power

  • U.S. takes over Panama Canal construction

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • Wright Brothers make first airplane flight

  • Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line

  • U.S. opens the Panama Canal

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    WW1

  • Russian Revolution

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    World-wide Depression

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    WW2

  • First atomic bomb exploded