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1
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1492

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Columbus

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1607

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1st Pilgrim settlement = Jamestown Virginia

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1608

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Pilgrims go to Leyden

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1620

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Mayflower sails for America with Pilgrims

= Cape Cod Massachusets

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October 1621

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1st Thanksgiving

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winter 1692-1693

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Salem Witch Trail

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1876

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Battle of Little Big Horn = General Custer vs Lakota + Cheyene = Sitting Bull + Crazy Horse

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1865-1890

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Conflicts between NA and settlers

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1880-1890

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NA children forcibly removed + placed in boarding schools

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1887

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Dawes Act
= divide tribal land in allotments = US citizenship
= surpluse sold to white settlers

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1934

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New Indian Deal = Franklin D Roosevelt

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1950-1975

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New Deal reversed

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1975

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Indian Self Determination Act = tribal authority re-established

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1756-1763

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French - Indian Wars

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1775 - 1783

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War of Independence

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1773

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Boston Tea Party

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4th July 1776

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Declaration of Indepence = Thomas Jefferson

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late 1840s

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period of expansionism

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1846-1848

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Mexican War

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1862

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Homestead Act

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1619

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Dutch ship with 20 African slaves arrived at Jamestown

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1793

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Invention of Cotton gin

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1845-1852

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Irish potato famine

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1857

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Supreme Court ruling all territories open to slavery

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1860

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Abraham Lincoln elected president

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1861-1865

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Civil War

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1865

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13th Amendment = abolishing slavery

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1870-1914

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Second Industrial revolution

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1915

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sinking Lusitania

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January 1917

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Zimmerman Telegram

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1918

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Spanish Flu pandemic

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1914-1918

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WWI

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1920

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Women allowed to vote

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1927

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first transatlantic flight (US - Europe)

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October 1929

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Stock market crash

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1920-1933

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Prohibition

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1940-1945

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WWII

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1929-1939

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Great Depression

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1930s

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Dust bowl

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1932

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New Deal = Franklin D. Roosevelt

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1935

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Social Security Act

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1950s

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Marshall plan

Eisenhower

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1980s

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Reagonomics

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1970s

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unstable economy

45
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2008

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Financial crisis (Lehman Brothers)

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1882-1968

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lynching = KKK

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2016

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elections Clinton/Trump

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1865-1877

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Reconstruction Era

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1954

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desegregation public schools

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1955

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Rosa Parks arrested

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1957

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Martin Luther King Jr Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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1963

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assassination of John F Kennedy

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1964

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Civil Rights Act = prohibiting discrimination

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1965

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Voting Rights Act

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1968

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assassination Martin Luther King Jr

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2001

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9/11

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1763

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Treaty of Paris = British get Canada from France + California from Spain.

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