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May 13, 1491
Overview of Native American Culture
It is important to knwo that native Americans had their own vast, complicated culture hundreds of years in the making. These natives had agriculture, complex hierarchies, and housing that varied greatly by region. In plains native would eat and live by hunting and gathering, whereas a native living on the west coast would live by fishing. It dependent on the natural resources around them. -
May 13, 1492
The spanish settle in the new world
Spanish and Portuguese exploration and conquest of the Americas led to widespread deadly epidemics, the emergence of racially mixed populations, and a caste system defined by an intermixture among Spanish settlers, Africans, and Native Americans. -
May 13, 1501
Slaves in america
In the economies of the colonies , slaves were very importan to it the trading of slaves will become the Atlantic slave trade. -
Slaves arrive in Jamestown
In 1619, the first shipment of slaves arrived in Jamestown, twelve years after its founding. before that the headright system allowed for a sort of temporary slavery. After finding crops which could be sold back to England, -
pilgrims!
The reason for Massachusetts' founding was Pilgrims' desire to separate completely from the Catholic church of England, they planned to go to Virginia, but were blown off-course to Plymouth, Massachusetts. They wrote the first framework for US government. They made an alliance with local natives who taught them how to hunt, fish, and farm the land. -
pueblo revolt
The Pueblo Revolt, was an uprising against the Spanish, who tried to force the natives to assimilate or otherwise treated them poorly. -
Salem witch trials
The Salem Witch Trials exemplify this period's religious extremism, and tendency to piety rather than science. These were not the only witchcraft accusations in New England; more people were hanged than just those in Salem. -
The French and Indian War Begins
was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. -
a new nation
In the late 18th century, new experiments with democratic ideas and republican forms of government, as well as other new religious, economic, and cultural ideas, challenged traditional imperial systems across the Atlantic World. -
Jeffersonian Democracy
named after its advocate Thomas Jefferson, was one of two dominant political outlooks and movements in the United States
people believed in a(n) agriculturalally derived system
Louisiana Purchase pushed for westward expansion -
Westward Expansion
President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans, and it doubled the size of the United States. -
women suffrage
was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C.. Organized by the suffragist Alice Paul for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, thousands of suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. on March 3, 1913. -
Second Great Awakening
Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement -
closer to Freedom
-In the North racial discrimination was diminishing
-Speakers against womens suffrage became apparent, The Grimke Sisters were a large part
-The Missouri Compromise, made the northern states free states and the southern slave states
-The "Kansas-Nebraska" act has people from all over pour into Kansas to choose its fate as a free or slave state.
-The abolitionist movement became more apparent, after the Dred Scott decision. -
South Seceeds: The Confederacy is Established
South Carolina seceeds from the United States of America and forms the Confederate States of America, the first of many. -
Invention of the Telephone
The first successful bi-directional transmission of clear speech by Bell and Watson was made on March 10, 1876 when Bell spoke into the device, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." and Watson answered.The telephone allowed for quick and easier communication of either long or short distances compared to the telegram. Invented by Alexander Graham Bell. -
Reconstruction
Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson took moderate positions designed to bring the South back to normal as quickly as possible following the Civil War. -
the Phonograph
a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound -
new wavew of immigrants
Southern and eastern Europe, Italians, Greeks, Croats, Slovaks, Poles, Russians, poor and illiterate peasants move into US.
Many move west in the US crowding into poor towns.
Americans develop a prejudice against immigration, due to the immigrants taking their jobs.
Immigrants began pouring in, and had to pass through Ellis Island to enter the US.
The American Federation of Labor made workers feel more safe at their jobs. -
Gilded Age
The gilded age was a cultural movement that was the start of the economic growth
The term was coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age -
The Model T
changed the way Americans live, work and travel. Henry Ford’s revolutionary advancements in assembly-line automobile manufacturing made the Model T the first car to be affordable for a majority of americnas -
The roaring twenties
refers to the 1920s in the United States and Europe, characterizing the decade's distinctive cultural edge in New York, Montreal, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, and many other major cities during a period of sustained economic prosperityjazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined modern womanhood and Art Deco peaked. Economically the era saw the large-scale use of automobiles, telephones, motion pictures, electricity, unprecedented industrial growth, accelerated consumer demand and -
Television
This was the date that thetelevision was invented. A device that would greatly impact the United States and the culture within in. Arguably, it is the most influential thing that shaped the culture of this country. -
Rock and Roll
ROCK AND ROLL was everything the suburban 1950s were not. While parents of the decade were listening to FRANK SINATRA, PERRY COMO, and BIG BANDS, their children were moving to a new beat.
In fact, to the horror of the older generation, their children were twisting, thrusting, bumping, and grinding to the sounds of rock and roll. -
Civil Rights! & March on Washinton!
Was the start of the civil rights movement which led African Americans to the movement to end segregation.
On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march, which became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a spirited call for racial justice and equality. -
The personal Computer!
One of the first and most popular personal computers was the Apple II, introduced in 1977 by Apple Computer. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, new models and competing operating systems seemed to appear daily. Then, in 1981, IBM entered the fray with its first personal computer, known as the IBM PC. -
Y2K
The Y2K bug was a computer flaw, or bug, that may have caused problems when dealing with dates beyond December 31, 1999. The flaw, faced by computer programmers and users all over the world on January 1, 2000. MAny belive the world would end -
September 11
a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States in New York City, New York, and Arlington County, Virginia, on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. target were the World trade center, the pentagon, and its belive the fourth targeted Washinton, D.C but fail to reached the destination due to the passangers. -
Today
Many many Different type of cultures and diversities have become part of the united states. although racism still existed people are more accepted of each other and have more rights and opportunities
