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Period: 60,000 BCE to 1400
Prehistory
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50,000 BCE
Migration out of Africa
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20,000 BCE
Most of the ancestors of the Native Americans crossed the land bridge through Beringia into North America
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1215
Magna Carta
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1492
Christopher Columbus sets sail
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1519
Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire
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Jamestown founded
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The Starving Time
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Pilgrims land at Plymouth
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20,000 Puritans sail for New England
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Bloody Massacre
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Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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American Revolutionary War
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Declaration of Independence
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John Hanson became the first US president with the Articles of Confederation
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George Washington becomes president
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The Louisiana Purchase
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Lewis and Clark expedition
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Slave trade to America becomes illegal
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The War of 1812 where US defeats Britain once and for all.
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Francic Scott Key writes "Star Spangled Banner" to celebrate the British defeat at Baltimore.
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Sequoyah creates Cherokee alphabet
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Jackson becomes president
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Peter Cooper builds steam powered train
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Indian Removal Act clears the way for sending Native Americans west of the Mississippi
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David Walker died.
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Pioneers moved west
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Martin Ban Buren becomes president
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Frederick Douglas flees the South
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Cherokees walk the Trail of Tears
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People traveled west because of the depression
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James K Polk became president
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James Marshall found gold
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Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree
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Gold Rush
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Labor unions started
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Sojourner Truth made her speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
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Civil War in Kansas
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Abe Lincoln became president
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American Civil War
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Homesteading the Plains
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Reconstruction
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Abraham Lincoln died.
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Cattle drives in Great Plains
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William Seward bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre
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Alaska purchased
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First transcontinental railroad
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Suez Canal opens
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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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First telephone conversation -- Alexander Graham Bell
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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
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The Panic of 1893
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Gold discovered in Alaska
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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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Hawaii becomes U.S. possession
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United States has become a world power
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U.S takes over Panama Canal construction
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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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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World War 1
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Russian Revolution
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World-wide Depression
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Adolf Hitler rose to power
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World War 2
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Pearl Harbor
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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Allies liberate france
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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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Vietnam War
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Terrorists successfully attack American landmarks
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Iraq War
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Election of President Barack Obama