American History 101
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American
History
* Wars of America Time Line http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/25-wars-of-america-timeline.htm
Early History up to 1620 http://www.loc.gov/topics/content.php?subcat=3
Early History, The Pilgrims http://www.worldbook.com/content-spotlight/item/955-the-history-of-thanksgiving-pilgrims-andnative-americans/955-the-history-of-thanksgiving-pilgrims-and-native-americans?
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Note: The articles above give a thorough view of the Pilgrims
( be sure to listen to all the videos including the ones that are activated after the main video ends by clicking the photos they appear afterwards ). Also be sure to click the next page at right top corner of every page
Pilgrims Timeline http://worldhistoryproject.org/topics/pilgrims
1492 an ongoing Voyage http://loc.gov/exhibits/1492/mediterr.html
Colonial Period ( 1630-1763 )
http://www.landofthebrave.info/colonial-america-time-period.htm
King Phillip http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip%27s_War
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Bacon's Rebellion http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion
Mayflower Compact http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_Compact
Plymouth Colony http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Benjamin Franklin http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
French and Indian War http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War
The Revolutionary Period
( 1763-1783 )
http://www.saveamericanhistory.org/historical-timeline/american-revolution-1763-1783/ https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/the-americanrevolution-1763-1783-7/the-campaigns-of-1777-1779-the-north-and-the-west-68/the-war-in-thewest-400-9657/The Revolutionary War http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War#Early_1765.E2.80.931773
Stamp Act ( 1765 ) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765
Massachusetts Massacre http://www.bostonmassacre.net/
Boston Tea Party http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
1st Continental Congress http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress
Common Sense http://www.ushistory.org/us/10f.asp
American Revolution http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution
2nd Continental Congress http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress
Paul Revere's Ride http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere
War of Independence http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Independence
Yorktown ( Final Victory ) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown
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* Top ten Founders
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/revolutionarywar/tp/foundingfathers.htm
* Deep Christianity of our Founders
http://wallbuilders.com/
Key characteristic of George Washington
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/georgewashington/tp/washingtontop10.htm
* Revolutionary War Timeline en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_American_Revolution
Click as many subcategories you want to, as follows, for example:
1760
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1761
1762
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1789
1790
* Presidents Timeline http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States#List_of_presidents
George Washington
1st President, took office 1789 left 1797 http://www.ci.george.wa.us/
The Young Republicans (1783-1815 )
Articles of Confederation http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation
Constitutional Convention http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Convention_(United_States)
Washington http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/delegates/washington/
Hamilton http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/delegates/hamilton/
And
Federalist http://teachingamericanhistory.org/bor/fed-antifed-debate/
Jefferson http://historum.com/american-history/61285-constitutional-convention-1787-absence-jeffersonadams.html
* The Constitution of the USA
Charters of Freedom http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html
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* List of Amendments to the Constitution http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Battle of Fallen Timbers http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fallen_Timbers
Alien and Sedition Acts http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
Louisiana Purchase http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
Lewis and Clark http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_expedition
War of 1812 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812
War of 1812 Timeline http://americanhistory.about.com/od/warof1812/a/war-of-1812-timeline.htm
Sectional, Controversy, War and Reconstruction
( 1830-1876 )
www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction
Slavery and the Drift towards War sageamericanhistory.net/civilwar/topics/1850compromise.html
Abraham Lincoln
Dies April 15 1865 ( killed while in office )
16th President, took office 1861 left 1865
Civil War ( 1861 ) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
* Civil War Timeline www.civilwar.si.edu/timeline.html
Battle of Gettysburg http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_gettysburg
Radical Republicans http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Republicans
Reconstruction Era http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era_of_the_United_States
Battle of Little Big Horn http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn
Second Industrial Revolution ( 1871-1904 )
Thomas Edison
http://www.biography.com/people/thomas-edison-9284349#final-years
Henry Ford www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1608.html
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George Westinghouse Inventor and
Industrialist http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Westinghouse
American Labor Movement http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_labor_movement
Sherman Antitrust Act http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act
Spanish -American War
I http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish-American_War
Political Reform II
( 1880-1920 )
http://www.studymode.com/subjects/social-reform-movement-1880-1920-page1.html
The Populist Party http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populist_Party_(United_States)
Jim Crow Laws http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
Be sure to click the Subcategories
Progressive Party http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1924)
Theodore Roosevelt President Reformer Conservationist
26th President, took office 1901 left 1909 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
27th President, took office 1909, left 1913 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft
Woodrow Wilson
28th President, took office 1913, left 1921 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson
War, Prosperity and Depression
( 1914-1933 )
http://www.american.com/archive/2011/may/prosperity-depression-and-progress
Panama Canal Connecting two Ocean
World War I http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
* World War I Timeline http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_timeline
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Black Sox Scandal http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal
Warren G. Harding Scandal
29th took office 1921, left 1923 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding
Charles Lindbergh http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh
Stock Market Crash of 1929 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_crash_of_1929
Babe Ruth http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth
Amelia Earhart http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
The New Deal and World War II
( 1933-1945 )
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.html
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8b.html
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32th President, took office 1933, left 1945 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.D._Roosevelt
Albert Einstein http://www.history.com/topics/albert-einstein
The Manhattan Project http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project
J. Edgar Hoover http://www.biography.com/people/j-edgar-hoover-9343398#video-gallery
European War http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Civil_War
Adelphi Hitler http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_hitler
The Holocaust http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_holocaust
Pearl Harbour Attack ( Dec. 7 1941 )
Day of infamy http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbour
World War II
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* World War II TIMELINE
Be sure to click subcategories: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_timeline
War in the Pacific http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_In_The_Pacific
Rosie the Riveter http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_the_riveter
Harry S. Truman and the Atomic Bomb
33th President, took office 1945, left 1953 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropping_of_the_Atomic_bomb
Post World WAR II
http://vanrcook.tripod.com/post-worldwarII.htm
Marshall Plan http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_plan
Berlin Airlift http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_airlift
Korean War http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Korean War Timeline http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/koreanwar/timeline.html
Senator Joseph McCarthy http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
Cold War http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War#/search
Dwight D. Eisenhower o
34th President, took office 1953, left 1961 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower
Brown vs Board of Education http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_vs_Board_of_Education
Rosa Parks http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_parks
Richard M. Nixon
37th President, took office 1969, left 1974 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M_Nixon
John F. Kennedy
35th President, took office 1961, left 1963 ( killed while in office ) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_f_kennedy
The Vietnam Era
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( 1960-1975 )
The Bay of Pigs Invasion http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
Lindon B. Johnson
36th President, took office 1963, left 1969 phttps://www.google.com/search?q=lindon+b+jhonson&client=ms-opera-miniiphone&channel=new&gws_rd=ssl
Civil Rights Movement http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement
Martin Luther King Jr.
http://www.biography.com/people/martin-luther-king-jr-9365086#early-years
Henry Kissinger http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger
Vietnam War http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war
Vietnam War Timeline http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war_timeline
Roe vs Wade http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_vs_wade
Watergate Scandal http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
Jimmy Carter
39th took office 1977,left 1981 www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1967.html
Iran Hostage Crisis http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
Ronald Reagan
40th took office, 1981, left 1989 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
End of Century ( 1980-2000 )
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_the_Century
Iran-Contra affair http://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/index.php
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_fall_of_berlin
The Persian Gulf War http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_war
Bill Clinton Impeachment http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/impeachments/clinton.htm
Election Turmoil ( 2000 ) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2000
The New Millennium ( 2001 )
September 11 2001 Islamic Terrorism http://www.september112001.com
Afghanistan http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_War
The Iraq War en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq
Election 2004 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2004
George W Busch en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
