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Period: 1492 to
The Columbian Exchange
As Europeans Traveled the Atlantic, they brought with them plants, animals, and diseases that changed lives and lands In both the new and old worlds. These two-way exchanges between the Americas and Europe are known as the Columbian Exchange. -
Period: 1492 to
The Columbian Exchange
As Europeans traveled the Atlantic, they brought with them plants, animals, and diseases that changed lives and landscapes on both the new world and the old. These two-way exchanges between the Americas and Europe are known as the Columbian Exchange.
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1500
Medieval weapons
They would use swords and bows from long range and even javelins but in close combat, they would use daggers.
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The Seven Years War
the Seven Years War also involved overseas colonial struggles between Great Britain and France, the main points of contention between those two traditional rivals being the struggle for control of North America.
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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France, in agreement, after Great Britain's victory over France during the Seven Years' War
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American Revolution
The American Revolution arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown.
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Musket Ball Muzzle Loader
The weapon was loaded through the muzzle---front loaded. The metal ball, 2/4 inch in diameter, weighed about 1 ounce, and was contained in a paper cartridge. http://www.ushistory.org(http://www.timetoast.com) -
Tobacco in Jamestown
Those tobacco seeds became the seeds of a huge economic empire. By 1630, over a million and a half pounds of tobacco were being exported from Jamestown every year. This was what brought the colonies back from the whole cannibalism thing in the 1810s.
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1825 Italian Percussion Pistol Pewter
Caplock or Percussion Lock pistols were so called because the lock system causes a percussion cap to be struck by the hammer when the trigger is pulled. The powder inside the cap ignites and this, in turn, ignites the main powder charge, which propels a lead ball from the barrel. Most caplock firearms were loaded from the muzzle of the gun. This was the most popular gun of 1825.
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Indians are Forced to Move to the West
The Indians Inhabitat most of the southern part of America in the 1830s. Then Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act Witch said that all natives in southern America had to move west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands. The Cherokees went to court with the government to get them to veto the Indian Ramoval Act law. They won but Andrew Jackson still Booted them.
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Johnson Flintlock Pistol
The Johnson model flintlock pistol of 1836 was sold for 9 dollars a pistol and was the number one used pistol used in the mid to late 1830s.
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Colt .44 Caliber
The Colt Model 1848 Percussion Army Revolver is a .44 caliber revolver designed by Samuel Colt this was the start to a gun that is still used today and is one of the most popular pistols in the world. This was one of the first pinfire guns.
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California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was the largest mass migration in American history since it brought about 300,000 people to California. It all started on January 24, 1848. The Gold Rush also had a severe environmental impact. Rivers became clogged up with rock, forests were cut down to produce timber.
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Fugitive Slave Law
In the South, the Fugitive Slave law of 1793 made capturing escaped slaves a lucrative business, and there were fewer hiding places for them. Fugitive slaves were typically on their own until they got to certain points farther north.
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Civil War Weapons
During the war, a variety of weapons were used on both sides. These weapons include edged weapons such as knives and swords, firearms such as, rifled-muskets, breech loaders and repeating weapons, various field guns such as artillery, and in the end of the war new weapons such as the early grenade and machine gun.
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South Carolina Secession
South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. James Buchanan, the United States president, declared the ordinance illegal but did not act to stop it. -
Reconstruction and Laws About It
The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated less than one week later. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's Vice President, briefly continued Lincoln's policies after Lincoln's assassination and in May 1865 announced his own plans for Reconstruction which included a vow of loyalty to the Nation and the abolition of slavery that Southern states were required to take before they could be readmitted to the Nation. -
who fought in WWI
World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire the Central Powers. fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States the Allied Powers. -
weapon used to kill Franz Ferdinand
An FN M1910, serial number 19074, chambered in .380 ACP was the handgun used by Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, the act that precipitated the First World War. -
The Lewis gun
The Lewis gun is a First World War–era light machine gun of US design that was perfected and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, and widely used by troops of the British Empire during the war. It had a distinctive barrel cooling shroud and top-mounted pan magazine. The Lewis served to the end of the Korean War -
what was the cold war
Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons
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End of WWII
World War 2 ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. On 8 May 1945, the Allies accepted Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. VE Day – Victory in Europe celebrates the end of the Second World War on 8 May 1945. -
The M-1 Grand
Enter the M-1 Garand, a semi-automatic rifle that could pump out bullets with a far higher rate of fire. The M1 Garand is a .30 caliber semi-automatic rifle that was the standard U.S. service rifle during World War II.
