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10,000 BCE
Native Americans come to North America
Our timeline starts at 10.000 BC. The estimated date when the first Indigenous people came to North America. Scientists believe that they crossed a land bridge named Beringia. This bridge spanned from northwest Russia, to the Northeast edge of what is now Alaska. Due to global warming, this land bridge has now been submerged in water. Before this, there is no evidence of humans living in either of the american continents. -
9090 BCE
Native Americans split into tribes
The Native Americans learned to survive of the land very quickly. Soon they split up into different tribes, each with their own culture. Religion, clothing, food, and music all make up culture. Over the years, tribes split up from the west coast of the U.S, and fanned out all over the continent. They all learned to adapt to their surroundings. For example, tribes in the southeast farmed the moist soil and hunt woodland animals, while tribes along the coast got food from the ocean -
Aug 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus comes to america.
The Europeans had heard enough tales of overflowing riches coming from the lands westward. Spain decided to launch a voyage, with Columbus leading. The there ships were the Nina, and the Pinta, which both had 18 members, and the Santa Maria, which had 52 people aboard. They launched in August and landed in December. Before this, the Europeans believed the Earth was flat. This marked the beginning of many journeys to the Americas that marked the beginning of American industrialization -
1565
St. Augustine, Jamestown, and Plymouth.
In September 1565, the first military fort in the U.S was built. It was named St. Augustine, and was build by the Spanish as a defensive fort. Later however, it was taken over by the British. Jamestown was the first permanent American Colony and was built in Virginia in 1607. The Plymouth colony in Massachusetts was established in 1620. It was founded by a group of 125 religious obligated colonists, commonly referred to as Pilgrims. That was a brief history of early U.S colonies. -
The Revolutionary War
As more and more people moved to Great Britain to America, tension build up. Britain made tax laws, and people moved to America. The British government wasn't happy about this, and tried to control the people in the Colonies with taxes and other laws. They obviously didn't take this too well, so things were tense for a while. In April 1775, the British and Americans opened fire on each other in Concord and Lexington Massachusetts. It ended when the declaration of independence was signed in 1776 -
Land Ordinance of 1785
The Land Ordinance of 1785 gave America legality to own and sell the land known as the Ohio country. This land is east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio river. The government sold land to citizens for $1 an acre. They divided the acres into square sections and numbered them. The government set aside land for neighborhoods and schools. This one of the first of many times the United States bought land from another country. -
The Industrial Age
Around the same time as the Trail of Tears, the industrial age was beginning. Samuel Slater opened the first industrial mill in the U.S in 1790. The design borrowed heavily from British models. Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin was also an important landmark. It was made in 1793, and was used as a quick way to separate cotton from it's seeds, which took a long time to do by hand. As more machines were invented, they took peoples jobs. This was another reason urban areas were growing. -
Southeast Gold Rush and Trail of Tears.
In 1830, the first gold rush in U.S history occurred. The gold was found on the south end of the Appalachian mountains. Unfortunately, this area was home to the Native american tribe of the Cherokee. To clear the way for miners, the government moved them all out of their homes. They were forced to walk to reservations in Oklahoma. An estimated 4,000 people died from things like, hunger, cold, and disease. This event was known as the trail of tears, and one of many forced migrations in US history -
The Civil War
Because there were unresolved problems left over from the constitution, there was tension in newly founded America.
The primary issues were slavery and state rights. Different states wanted different laws, so the U.S split into 2 different countries. The Union was the Northernmost, which did not support slavery, along with other debatable laws. The Confederacy was the southern states, who supported slavery. The battle ultimately ended with the Union winning, and the nation came together again. -
The Great Migration
After the civil war ended, the south began to change. The recent laws made slavery completely illegal. The great migration was a time when many people moved from the south United States, to the north. There were 2 main reasons for this. One was the recent industrial revolution. People moved from Rural areas to find jobs in the cities up North. The second was the African Americans that were freed after the civil war left the farms and moved north. This is how the America you know today was formed
