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Oct 9, 1491
Columbian Exchange
During European expansion to the Americas many native americans wre forced into slave labor off their land, also some willingly fled. Also during this expansion to America "Old World" diseases killed off many Native Americans causing a drastic decrease in their population. -
Aug 20, 1518
Middle Passage
Millions of african men, women, and children made the 2-90 day voyage across the seas in overly crowded boats. Business men would trade their cargo for up to 600 african slaves who were brought against their will. -
Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in America. It brought much attraction because of the people trying to find gold and other resorces. -
Tobacco Expansion
After tobacco saved the destruction of Jamestown it started expanspanding into territories reserved for the indians which caused more disputes between the settlers and the indians. -
Independence Day
On this day our starting populstion was 2.5 million people. -
Slowing growth of african slaves
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 outlawed importation of slaves from Africa. This law contributed to slowing down but not stopping the growth of the black population in early America -
Irish Potato Famine
In this year a fungus had arrived in Ireland from Mexico causing potatoes to wither away afer being picked. This fungus caused a quarter of the Irish population to die. 2 million Irish peple soon moved to Canada, America, and the United States workng low paying jobs. -
Manifest Destiny
As improvements in technology and infrastructure changed America the trend of "moving west" started to occur. Many americans believed that it was destined because of the quote "from sea to shining sea". This caused a migration from the east to the west. -
More European Migration
Most European countries were trying to gain their indeoendence. Germany had failed, so over the next year or so about a million of Germans traveled to America to get away from their government. -
California Gold Rush
Gold was discovered by a carpenter in California. While most of the 30,000 migrationist were american others had came from Hawaii, Latin America, and China, increasing diversity and also westward expanison -
Adoption (1851)
The first modern adoption law was passed in Massachusetts in 1865 allowing legal adoption under specific guidelines. -
Parens Patriae (1860)
The idea that children were important to society and not just chattel emerged. Laws were placed around the 60's making school mandatory for children. As the new idea was that children should be brought up well to become responsible citizens. -
Homestead Act
Lincoln encouraged Americans to move west. Applicants had to be over 21 or the head of a family and live on and improve the land. This greatly increased population west of the Missisippi. -
U.S CENSUS OF 1870
The U.S. Census of 1870 stated that there were 38,555,983 Americans. This was the first census to provide information on black individuals. In the previous census records blacks were property & not people. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This act was passed by congres and signed by President Arthur to limit the amlunt of chinese workers immigrating to america. Ethnicity ratios fell at this time -
Turners frontier thesis & end of the frontier (1890-1893)
Turners frontier thesis claimed that expansion was the most important factor of U.S. History. However in 1890 the frontier disappeared because of the inability to claim more land and expand westward. -
1900's immigration increase
After the depression of the 1890's immigration increases from 3.5 million immigrants to 5 million immigrants. -
Great migration (1910-70)
The great migration was the movement of African Americans from rural areas of the United States to the cities. Chicago's population grew from 44,000 to 110,000. -
Quota act (1921)
The quota act , also known as the "emergency immigration act" was created restricting immigration into the United States. -
Farmers migrate (1940)
6 million people left farms to work in urban areas. -
Baby boom (1946-64)
The end of ww2 brought the baby boomers which increased the United States birthrate. Number of annual births exceed 2 per 100 women. An estimated 78 million Americans were born during this demographic boom in births. -
Nuclear family (1950)
Due to the scare of communism from the Cold War the idea of the "nuclear family emerged" where there is a pair of married adults who have biological children who are full blood siblings. -
End of quota (1952)
The end of the restricted immigration opened the United States back up to immigrants. By 1970 almost 400,000 Cubans had immigrated to the United States of America. The number of Filipino, Chinese & Korean immigrants had doubled. -
Teen pregnancy (1960)
Teen child bearing had reached historical peaks in the 1960's. -
Feminist movement (1960)
The feminist movement consisted of women who were anti family (meaning they did not hold traditional family values). The women of the feminist movement also aimed to alienate themselves from men. -
AIDS epidemic (1980)
By the end of the 80's 31,000 Americans had died of AIDS. -
Urbanized America (2000's)
By 2000, 82% of Americans no longer lived In rural areas. -
LGBT parenting (2005)
As of 2005 an estimate of 270,313 children in the U.S. Lived in a household headed by same sex couples. -
Birth rate on decline (2010)
In 2010 the United States birth rate had hit an all time Low , by the 20th century the birth rate had dropped to 13.5 births per thousand people .
