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Jan 1, 1050
Berlngland bridge
During the Ice Age, most scientist belived that humans crossed across a land bridge that sretched between Siberia and Alaska in order to reach the American. This was made possible due to the large amount of ice masses that were locked due to the weather and climate change that were a reflection of conditions during the Ice Age. Scienctist didn't know exactly when these humans migrated to the American but they do believed that it was because of this bridge -
Jan 1, 1491
Early Contact
European migrations became to explore the New World. this rsults in a large decrease in the Native American population as the introduces of new dieases began to speard to the America. Warfare also began to have a decline in Native Americans due to fight over territory and resources that the Europes begans to take for themseleves . The Encomienda system also caused a decline in Native American because of hard larbor and the dieases that were killing the population -
Feb 2, 1504
Spanish and Portugese Exploration
Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors brought dieases that rapidly infected and killed populations. The introduction of racially mixed populations and concepts begans the term "Mestizo" began to exist when Spanish and Native Americans began to mix together. -
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
William Penn establishes Pennsylvania where it was a safe place to pratice religous freedoms for Quakers and gain money from agriculture and trade and was sucessful because of its rich farmland and numerous rivers. -
Establishments of towns in America
The exporation of European coutries cause a population increased in American. Colonies like Jamestown allow merchants to have a better life in the New World, many of these men where men that were looking for opportunies to become wealthy so most of these men where single in result of that, many women that were married later became widows due to the harsh working condition and the short life span of their husbands. Women would marry in order to gain land and be protected by financial support. -
The establishment of Slavery
After the decrese in population happened afer the failed system of forced labor in Native Americans because of diease and hard labor conditions, the institution of slavery was introduce through the Middle Passge which allowed the transportation of slaves to be sent to America, these slaves later had babies which was encoraged in order to get more free labor this caused a population increase in the south -
King Phillip's War
The colonies were forcing Native Americans to asslimate to their culture in which resulted in the rebellion of Native American whch lead to the decreasing population in Native Americans because the colnies had srtonger weapons -
Colonial New England
The Puritains travel to America due to their disagreemnt with the religous churches in England, in which they left to seek religous freedom evenually these people were meet but the Native American resistance. -
Seven Years War
This war caused a decrease in population de to the shortage of supplies and the many Natives Americans and colonist who were involved in the war died as causalites -
Life as a common soilder
On top of many lives lost in battles like Lexigton, American soilders died of diease and famine due to low supplies of food and poor sanitiation -
Revonlutionary War
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Valley Forge
¡ The Continental Army was stuck at Valley Forge with very little
rations; very little food and insufficient winter attire, due to this their were deaths but it was a revlation to George Washington ablity to maintain energy within his army despite the diffcult times. This army and attiude lead to the independence of America -
The Great Compromise
Where the goverment considers the population in order to governor the nation.Some states had a larger popluations than others. Historians can use this document in order to see where America population was concentrated. -
Slavery and the ThreeFifthsCompromise
This Compromise allowed slave states to be considered a 3-5s of their population in order to determines the number of houses of reprsentatives they could have. This makes it diffcult to determined how many Afican American where actually in American during this time period. -
Cotton Gin
Due to the mass production of cotton lead to a high demand of slaves -
An Essay on the Principle of Population
English economist, "An essay of the Principles of population" which he wrote about the dangers of overpopulation. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The new purchase of land increses the popluation by having the people living in those lands apart of American mostly these people were Native Americans which eventually lead to conflict between them and the United States -
Steamboat
In 1807, Robert Fulton designed a steam engine for a steamboat that could move against the current of a river or against the
wind.The steamboat createdmore opportunities fortrade and transportationon rivers. -
Canned Foods
French chef produces airtight food perservation enabling people to eat fruits and vegtables year round improving nutritions. -
America becomes Industrial
In Lowell, Massachuetts is where America's first planned factory town was built heraling the Industrail Revolution in the United States the nation's population is about 10 million at this point of time -
The Telegraph
The telegraph was invented by Samuel Morse.With the telegraph, it took only seconds to communicate with another city.The invention of the telegraph brought the people of the
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“Second wave immigration”
many people migrated from Eastern and Southern parts of Europe. Many came to live in America looking for jobs and escape from poverty and famine. These immigrants live in tenements in the city. -
Irish Potato Famine
Start of the Irsih Potato Famine that killed over a million people from starvation and forces mass migration due a blight of the country's primary crop. People began to migrate to other countries like the U.S in order to avoid the epidemic -
Seneca Falls Convention
World's first women's convention held in Seneca, NY -
Birth Control
The Firat rubber condom was created by an American inventor Charles Goodyear, using his patent vulcanized rubber -
Immigrants come to America
The origins of immigrants change from Western Europe to Southern and Eastern Europe. Hundreds of Italian, Polish and Russian immigrants arrived daily. immigrants lived in tenements – low-cost, urban family housing developments
that had many families living in one place
as possible. -
Civil War
This War lead to an estimate of 620,000 deaths of American soilders causing a large decrease in population. For the first time Afraican American are considered a citizen as the ambolishment of slavery came after the War. Many Americans died due to infectious dieases that were rapid during this time. -
The Homestead Act
Granted 160 acres to any family hat would agree to farm it for five years. -
The Morrill Land Grant Act
Gave federal lands to states for the purpose of building schools that would teach agriculture and technical trades. -
The Pacific Railway Act
Approved the building of a trans-continental railroad that would transform the west by linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. -
Transcontetial Railroad
First railroad is completed in American allowing the transportation of foods and goods to be moved across the nation more easily -
First transcontinental railroad in the United States
allowed for easier and faster migration and transportation of people from the east to the west. This changed where people lived because many Americans moved from a very urban east to a more rural west. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
At Wounded Knee Creek,troops slaughtered over 100 Native men, women and children.The Wounded Knee Massacre effectively ended the Native attempts to push back the white settlers -
Babies New to be Born
The United States Congress passes the Comstock laws making all forms of contraception illegal. -
Battle of Little Big Horn
Custer’s 700 men were slaughtered by 7,000 Sioux Indians at the Battle of Little Horn -
Mining Towns
Thousands flocked West in hopes offinding gold or silver. -
Air conditioning
The American population began to move south as Air conitioning allows hotter climates to become bearable -
More Food More People
German Chemist, Fitz Harber, discovers how Nitrogen to make a fertilzer enabaling a revoulation in agriculutre that feed million more of the population -
Henry ford
Ford's Model T rolls off the assembly line as the firts mass production produced automobile -1.5 million were sold over a 20 years span -
World War I
It was conside the first modern war which resulted in 1.6 million deaths -
100 million
Americas population reaches 100 million -
The great migration
Due to harsh segregation laws in the south a large scale migration of African-Americans moved from the rural south to the cities of the north and Midwest. Many lived in urban cities in New York and Chicago. -
The Great Depression
Americas population went down due to an increase of deaths and the decrease in fertility. By suicide starvation and even sickness. Thousands became unemployed and lost millions of dollars in the country’s deepest, long lasting economic downturn in its history -
Interment of Japanese Americans
After the Attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese planes the United States Government ordered the removal of Japanese Americans. Nearly all of the Japanese Americans who lived on the west coast were forced into interment camps to live there. -
World II
The deadllest military conflict in history resulting in 6 million deaths -
Baby Boom
After World War II The birth rate skyrocketed.3.4 million babies were born in 1946 almost 20% more than in 1945. -
The Great Depression
The depression leads to a baby bust because of the low ecomonic success during thi tme period this lead a large drop in fertility for several years -
Levittown
the first Levittown was built in New York it was a suburban development for veterans who were returning from WWII. Houses were built identical for fast production and allowed for more room unlike cramped city locations. -
Polio
The the first vaccine was annonced leading to the first modern mass inoculations -
Birth Control
The birth control pill was approved for use by the United States -
Measles
Vaccine for measles becomes available evenually reducing child mortailty worldwide. -
Large poulation
The United States population reaches 200 million -
Roe vs. Wade
The issue of Abortion came to light in the court case Roe vs. Wade. The decision a woman has to abort of kill her child was brought to court when a woman under the alias of Jane Roe wanted an abortion but could not get one. The debate over pro-life and pro-choice has continued into modern society. -
Test Tube Baby
The first Test tube baby was born in England. About 6 million babies have been born using the same method -
4th wave immigration
ew migrants coming from Mexico and Latin America were raising the population in the south. They began to replace those who moved north during the great migration -
Same sex marriage
Massachetts was the first state to legalized gay marriage -
The Internet
The Interent increases Americans population as it allows people to comunicate more with others around the world hwich increases migration -
Teen pregnancy
the teen pregnancy rate was at its highest in the year 2010 since then it has gradually decreased -
Old is the New
The elderly population begans to outweight the young which indicated that there is a drop in fertilty during the 2000 due the new opportunies that are given to women they were less willing to have children due to new responiblies.
