-
150
Hunter Gathers
Most people traveling from place to place -
200
Homo-Sapiens
Homo-Sapiens walked the Earth -
200
Agricultural Revolution
Nomadic peopled began settling down -
250
Slash and Burn
People began clearing forest into fields for planting -
275
Shifting Cultivation
Rotation of crops to prevent exhaustation of soil -
Jan 12, 1400
pre-1400
All farming with very little technological advances -
Jan 12, 1492
White Men
Columbus discovers a new world -
Jan 12, 1500
Bison
30-60 millon Bison roamed the North American Plains -
Frontier Era
beginning -
England
Industrial Revolution in England -
Eli Whitney Born
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Constitution
-
Industrial Revolution in USA
-
Land
Goverment owns 80% of land -
Bison Hunters
Railroads hired bison hunters -
Life in the Woods
thoreau and Marsh -
Homestead Act
-
Frontier Era
Ends -
Frontier closed
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Sierra Club
-
Sierra Club
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Period: to
Beginning of Time
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Bison
Bison shrunken to a tiny area -
War
World War 1 -
Period: to
Beggining of Time
