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Period: Apr 1, 1325 to
Changing Environment in Southwestern North America
Summer rains vanish and most of the Southwest stays warm all year round. The appearance of the Apache tribe starts a new era of civilization in the region that now consists of mostly desertsystems. These new inhabitants relied on hunting and gathering as opposed to their agricultural predeccesors. -
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Colonization and Settlement in North America
The Spanish, English, and French are the 3 major world powers who began exploring the Americas intially as route to the West Indies. The Spanish mostly claimed much of Central America and the Southeast. The French claimed much of modern day Canada and the British settled on the eastern coast of North America. -
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American Revolution
The American colonies declare indpendence from Great Britain. The new country is established as a competitive global power after the transistion from colonialization -
Treaty of Paris
This treaty officially ends the war for independence between the American Revolutionaries and Great Britain. -
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Westward Expansion
The predominantly Apache southwest and most of Arizona is gradually settled by Spanish and American missionaries, soldiers, and frontiersmen.
Manifest Destiny is established as an American ideal to encompass North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Americans move into Arizona in the midst of a heated fued
between Mexicans and Apache Indians Indian Reservations are established and many Native American tribes are uprooted from their land and forced to move into reservations -
Louisiana Purchase
During Thomas Jefferson's presidency, he purchased a vast tract of land west of the Mississippe from the French. This led to the growth of the new country and the westward expansion of the US -
Missouri Compromise
Monumental step towards addressing the issue of slavery in the US -
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Mexican War
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Fort Yuma constructed
A focal point during the river-dependent economy in the 1800s -
Gadsden Purchase
President James Buchanan authorizes the purchase of Southern Arizona for 50 million dollars -
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The American Civil War
The country is divided by North (Union) and South (Confederacy) over the main theme of slavery and economy. -
The Homestead Act
Pass by President Abraham Lincoln. 160 acres alotted to each houshold. Must stay on the land for at least 5 years and improve it. -
Ratification of the 15th Amendment
States could not decline the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or servitude -
The Phoenix Indian School contructed
Native American children are forced from home to attend boarding schools across the US and were taught to remove all vestiges of their culture and language -
Arizona admitted into the Union
Citizens in Arizona now have a heightened political sense of stability because there is representation of the state in Congress -
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World War II
Global conflict between the Allied Powers (USA, France, and Great Britian with Russia joining later) and the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan). Many Mexican workers were hired as laborers in Arizona Armed foreces installations are established in Arizona
Navajos were recruited in WWII as Codetalkers POW camps estalished in Arizona (Papago Park and Florence) Internment camps also established in Arizona -
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The Cold War
Competition betweeen the two global superpowers of the US and the Soviet Union -
9/11
The terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC -
President Obama takes office
President Barack Obama takes office and faces immigration as a key issue in his term. -
Patriot Act
President George W Bush passes the Patriot Act in response to 9/11
