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Archery
Archery is a sport that dates back years and years before the modern day of shooting and competing with other archers. In 2800 BC, the first composite bow was produced by the Egyptians. It was made from wood, tipped with animal horn and held together with animal sinew and glue. -
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The Columbian Exchange
The movement of diseases, ideas, foods, crops, and people between the New World and the Old World. After the Columbian Exchange, because of all the new foods brought to Europe, people started developing healthier diets and started living longer. (The Columbian Exchange PowerPoint) -
Jamestown Colony
The Jamestown Colony was the first permanent settlement in North America which is located new present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. This colony gave England its first foothold in the European competition in the New World. (Britannica.com) -
George Washington (New Theme)
George Washington was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America and served as the nation's first president. In the American Revolutionary War, General Washington led Patriot forces to victory over the British and their allies -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor. -
Golf
Golf originated from a game played on the coast of Scotland during the 15th century. Golfers would hit a pebble instead of a ball around the sand dunes using a stick or club. After 1750, golf evolved into the sport as we recognize it today. In 1774, Edinburgh golfers wrote the first standardized rules for the game of golf. -
Rugby
Rugby football, which is popularly believed to have been formed by William Web Ellis in 1823 at Rugby School in England, after he simply picked up the ball and ran with it. Scholars now say this is probably apocryphal, though the modern sport did likely form around the area at the same time. -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and houses used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. -
Swimming
Swimming pools did not become popular until the middle of the 19th century. By 1837, six indoor pools with diving boards were built in London, England. After the modern Olympic Games began in 1896 and swimming races were among the original events, the popularity of swimming pools began to spread. -
Trail of Tears
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. -
Cricket
The cricket bat was invented around 1853, the blade made of willow, and a cane handle layered with strips of rubber, tied with twine and covered with rubber to make a grip. -
Radical Republicans
The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. -
Mini Ball
Before the development of the Minié ball, muzzle-loading rifles were not used in combat situations because of how difficult they were to load. Because the ammunition used had to engage the spiral grooves, or rifling, inside the rifle barrel, it had to be equal in diameter to the barrel, and shooters would have to jam the bullet into the rifle by force. -
Baseball
Americans began playing baseball on informal teams, using local rules, in the early 1800s. By the 1860s, the sport, began to get popular, was being described as America's "national pastime." The first recorded baseball game was held in 1846 when Alexander Cartwright's. -
Fort Sumter
A standoff ensued until January 9, 1861, when a ship called the Star of the West arrived in Charleston with over 200 U.S. troops and supplies intended for Fort Sumter. South Carolina militia batteries fired upon the vessel as it neared Charleston Harbor, forcing it to turn back to sea. Major Anderson refused repeated calls to abandon Fort Sumter, and by March 1861 there were over 3,000 militia troops besieging his garrison. -
Badminton
By the mid 19th Century a game called ‘poona’ had developed in India that more closely resembled modern-day badminton. Britishe army officers picked up the game and brought it to england and so on. Now we play the sport for fun and the sports close relative tennis. -
Basketball
Basketball was a necessity, rather than by evolving from an existing game. The inventor, Dr. James Naismith, had to come up with an indoor sport capable of replacing the outdoor activities at the YMCA Training School in 1891, and he had to do it in a hurry. -
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Ellis Island
Ellis Island was an island where immigrants from all around the world, were checked to see how much money they had, if they had any diseases, if they had a criminal record and other things to make sure they would help the United States. -
Volleyball
William Morgan invented volleyball in 1895 at the Holyoke, Massachusetts. Morgan originally called his new game of Volleyball, Mintonette. The name Volleyball came about after a demonstration game of the sport when a spectator commented that the game involved much "volleying" and game was renamed Volleyball. -
Motor Racing
Car racing began to emerge at the very end of the 19th century, leading into the development of tracks built for car racing in the first decade of the 1900s, first in Britain in 1907, then later in the U.S., most famously with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909. -
Machine Gun
A soldier using a machine gun, which spit out 600 bullets per minute, did not have to stop as often to reload. In time, military commanders realized that machine guns could make a greater effect when grouped together. In fact, the Germans created separate machine gun companies to support the infantry. -
Militarism
Militarism was the rise in military, an increase in military and naval forces, more influence of the military men upon the policies of the civilian government, and a preference for force as a solution to problems. Militarism was one of the main causes of World War 1 -
Truman Doctrine
Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal Communist forces. -
Domino Theory
The domino theory was a theory from the 1950s to the 1980s that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effec
