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North America "Land of Opportunity"
Settlers left Europe to find new land, and new opportunities and freedoms. -
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Tobacco
Tobacco was Americas largest export. Although it was illegal the new settlers did it cause it brought in alot of money. -
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Rough Start
Three months after the Mayflower set sail back to Europe, more than half of the pilgrams had died from hunger, exhaustion, or diseas. -
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Too much Red
In September of 1627 there were many Redcoats in America. For every 1 Redcoat there was 4 Americans. -
Boston Massacre
Where 5 Redcoats try to hold of an angry mob, Four died on the spot and a fifth died after four days. Six others were wounded. -
Crispis Attics
Crispis Attics, a slave, was the firs person to Die at the Boston Massacre and the word was quickly spread throughout the world. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere mad the front page, of the Boston Newspaper, about the Boston Massacre and he titles it "The Bloody Massacre" -
Boston Tea party
December 16th 1773, a group of about 200 men went to the Boton harbor and dumped ever case/box of tea into the boston harbor. They called it the Boston Tea Party. -
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British are coming
Around June 30th 1776 there were around 3,000 British Battlships packed with Redcoats, and ready to take over the New Land -
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Open FIre
July 12 1776 two of the thousands of ships opened fire on New York city, it was the larges attack on New York untill Septeber 11, 2001. -
New Fighing tactics
Now America has the native american and their fighting stradegies on their side. Instead of going up against the best army in the world, they will simply just sneak attack them opening up a whole new was of war -
TAXED
By 1778 The british had New York under control and they taxed everything,and by this time food prices were up 800% -
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Sacajawea
Sacajawea saved Boone and his men by showing them ways through the land and leading them to food, water, and shelter. -
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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman risked her life to help free slaves by leading them and the "Underground Railroad" -
Hunters
Hunters and trappers start to catch beavers, they sell for alotback in Eurrope, because in Europe there not many left. -
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revoulution was the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation. -
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Alamo
Alimo was where American settlers where getting into Mexican land and a Spanish group killed all but wo Texan defenders and were told to send a message to the rest of the settlers to stay out, but the message they remembered was remember the Alimo. -
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GOLD RUSH
Miners from all over came here to get gold, but problems started when some miners where finding alot and others finding none. -
Slaves
It hit ground zero for the slave trade in 1941, because of 1/2 a million slaves were traded like animals. -
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Tough Times
Due to being stuck in the middle of nowhere in the snow, and family had already eatin the cattle. The family had no choice but Kanablism. -
John Brown Death
John Brown is put to Death by the state of Virginia, because of treason and murder. -
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North vs. South
Civil war at its hight North vs. South bringing more deaths than ever seen, and by 1863 lost 2% of population. -
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African American Soldier
IN july of 1863 more than half of the slaves that where freed joined the North in the civil war. -
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Statue of Liberty
It took donations from all over America, 120,000, to assemble the statue of liberty -
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Railroads go West
1868 The railroad extend west. -
Teddy Blue
Teddy Blue is 1 of about 20,000 cowboys in the west. -
Andrew Carnagy
Andrew Carnagy developed a new way to make steel -
Barbwire
Barbwire was invented in 1873 -
Locust
3 Trilion Locus terrorised the west by eatin every bit of crop, people called this the Locust Plague -
Buffalo Slodder
30 million Buffalo killed in 10 years -
New Stoves
Carnagey created massive stoves that helpped mass produce steel -
Thomas Edison and the Lightbulb
Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879 and had it patened in 1880. -
Crime and Poverty
Crime and poverty is at its height in 1890 -
Lumber
In 1892 2 million ft of lumber will be cut in Nebraska alone. -
Hamil Brothers
The Hamil Brothers strike oil in Texas creating an ecinomic Boom. -
Texaco
Texaco was invented after the discovery of oil in Texas. -
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Sewer systems
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Henry Ford Model T
Henry Ford invented the Model T which was the first automobile. -
Sewers
Every city in America has a sewer system -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was the worst work disaster untill September 11 2001. -
Assembly line
Henry ford creates the assembly line in 1913, helps mass produce items. -
Rosco Sheler
Rosco Sheler is the first car salesmen -
Red Summer
Red summer were race riots that exploded in a number of cities in both the North and South. -
Muscle Cars
The 1st muscle cars where created in The late summer of 1919 -
Boomtime
the 1920's where a big Boomtime in America -
Hollywood
800 Films produced in L.A./ Hollywood -
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Start of Great Depression
Stock Market Crash was the begining of a National Depression. -
Credit
6 Billion dollars were spent in credit -
Bank of United States
Bank wouldnt give out any loans -
Hoover Dam
Construction on the worlds largest dam, the Hoover Dam, had begun on march 4th 1931 -
Loosing banks
In 1933 there where 38 states that didnt have a single bank. -
Dust Bowl
In 1934 the midwest was getting pounded with dust storms. -
Radios
Radios linked America together in 1935 -
Dust Storm
On April 14th 1935, the biggest dust storm in American history hit America. -
Hoover Dam is Complete
The Hoover dam was finished on september 30th 1935 2 years ahead of schedule. -
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Mt. Rushmore
Mt. Rushmore was created and became the worlds biggest monument. -
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Baby Boomber
1 baby every 10 seconds. -
American Automobile
2 million cars are in America -
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Martin Luther King, Jr
Martin Luther King Jr. lead thousands of black men and women to the Washington monument and gave hit "I Have a Dream" speech. -
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Woodstock
Woodstock was the music event of the decade and to this day the single most profound event in the history of music -
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Challenger Explodes
On Janurary 27 1986 the Challanger Exploded a few seconds after lift off kill 7 people including a school teacher -
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Terrorist Attacks
On Seprtember 11, 2001 2 planes hit the World Trade Center and 1 hit the pentagon and one, that believedto be headed to the whitehouse, hit a field in Pennsalviania. -
Teleagraph like he Telephone
Telegraph connects the country to each other, like cell phones do today
