Moving Beyond the Page Books (and additional on topics)

By jill_james
  • 1000

    Leif Erikson Arrives in North America

  • 1100

    oil lamp

  • 1492

    Morning Girl/ Columbus Arrived at America

    Bahamas
  • 1565

    St. Augustine

  • 1565

    St. Augustine (in Florida), the first permanent settlement of the U.S., was founded by the Spanish.

  • Jamestown Settlement

    Jamestown Settlement

  • Jamestown (in Virginia) is established as the first permanent English settlement in the U.S.

  • Pilgrims came to Massachusetts

  • Pilgrims Arrive at Plymouth Pock

  • The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock.

  • Period: to

    Ben Franklin

  • Kaya (American Girl)

    Set in the Pacific Northwest. Kaya is from the Nez Perce tribe.

  • The Sign of the Beaver

    Maine

  • Ben and me

  • American Revolution

  • George Washington

    when he got elected president

  • only wealthy white men who own property can vote

  • The smallpox vaccine was discovered

  • all men can vote regardless of their race, color or previous condition of servitude

  • Trail of Tears

  • Wagon trails begin going to Oregon Territory.

  • Britain gives U.S. Oregon Territory.

  • almost all white men can vote

  • CN & MA say if you can't read or write you can't vote

  • Abraham Lincoln got elected

  • Henry David Thoreau Birth

  • A House of Tailors

  • Little House in the Big Woods

    Little House in the Big Woods
    Wisconsin, near the town of Pepin

  • Sarah, Plain and Tall

    Kansas

  • black men lose the right to vote again

  • light bulb

  • First wave of immigrants (primarily from northern Europe) arrives.

  • Period: to

    Helen Keller

    Grew up in Alabama

  • France gives the Statue of Liberty to America.

  • Sitting Bull Dies

  • Beginning of second wave of immigration (primarily from southern and eastern Europe).

  • Quannah Parker Dies

  • women now have the right to vote

  • all Native Americans can vote

  • The second wave of immigration ends as Congress passes laws that severely limit the number of people allowed to enter the United States.

  • FDR got elected

  • Period: to

    World War II

    Word War II

  • Charlotte's Web

    Maine

  • The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

  • Japan bombs America at Pearl Harbor

  • America Bombs Japan at Hiroshima

  • every U.S. citizen over 21 is able to vote

  • Iggie's House

  • every U.S. citizen over 18 can vote

  • Hurricane Katrina

  • Hurricane Harvey

  • The Present