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Period: 300 to
Historical Events
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400
Black Hills
The Black Hills are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States. Harney Peak, which rises to 7,244 feet, is the range's highest summit. -
Oct 21, 600
Cahokia Mounds
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site /kəˈhoʊkiə/ is located on the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city situated directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri. -
Jamestown
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. William Kelso says Jamestown "is where the British Empire began ... this was the first colony in the British Empire." -
Princess Mishawaka
The Princess Mishawaka Society is named for the daughter of Shawnee Chief Elkhart. Legend has it that in 1801, Chief Elkhart attacked the Pottawatomie tribe led by Chief Pokagon driving them from the St. Joseph Valley, Indiana to Michigan. -
Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838) set out in May 1804 to explore and map the American West. Lewis and Clark were accompanied by a crew of men, and later, the Shoshone Indian guide and interpreter Sacajawea (also spelled Sacagawea) and her infant son. -
Fulton's Fully
The North River Steamboat or North River is widely regarded as the world's first commercially successful steamboat. Built in 1807, the North River Steamboat operated on the Hudson River between New York and Albany. -
Trail of tears
In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission. -
Chief Joseph
Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it in Americanist orthography, popularly known as Chief Joseph or Young Joseph, succeeded his father Tuekakas as the leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain. -
Sutter's Mill
, James W. Marshall found several flakes of gold that began the transformation of the territory to a bustling center of activity. -
Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. -
Promonotory point
Promontory Point is the cape or southernmost point of the peninsula formed where the Promontory Mountains project into the northern Great Salt Lake at 41°12′18″N 112°25′43″W / 41.20500°N 112.42861°W in Box Elder County, Utah. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam /ænˈtiːtəm/, also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South, fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek as part of the Maryland. -
Kentucky Derby
The Kentucky Derby /ˈdɜrbi/ is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of one and a quarter miles (2 km) at Churchill Downs. -
Custer's Last Stand
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to Lakota as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, -
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. -
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, immediately north of the city of Leavenworth in the upper northeast portion of the state. -
Kitty hawk
Kitty Hawk is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, and is a part of what is known as North Carolina's Outer Banks. The population was 3,272 at the 2010 Census. It was established in the early 18th century as Chickahawk. -
Corn Palace
The Corn Palace, commonly advertised as The World's Only Corn Palace and the Mitchell Corn Palace, is a multi-purpose arena/facility located in Mitchell, South Dakota -
Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. -
Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the 1 mile wide, 3 mile long channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. -
Manasass Battle
The First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas, was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas, not far from the city of Washington, D.C. -
Mt. Rushmore
a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United Staes with the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abrham Lincoln. -
Pearl Harbor
Surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter is a sea fort located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and notable for two historic battles of the American Civil War. -
Tombstone
Tombstone is a historic western city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, founded in 1879 by Ed Schieffelin in what was then Pima County, Arizona Territory. It was one of the last wide-open frontier boomtowns in the American Old West. -
price of a loaf of bread
$1.72 -
Big sports headline
The Reds ended their five-game losing streak in unlikely yet compelling fashion, securing a 7-5 victory on Aaron Boone's two-run, bases-loaded single in the 13th inning. -
Price of oil
$27.88 -
DOW Jones
10621.84 -
Major headline
Susan Sarandon opens cheese speciality shop in Paris, France. -
Number 1 Song on my birthday
Aaliyah,"Try Again" -
Price of gold
$285.73 -
Price of gas per gallon
1.618 -
President during June 2000
Bill Clinton -
price of 25 milk
$1.28 -
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Niagara falls
Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States; more specifically, between the province of Ontario and the state of New York.
