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- Early America
Early Native Americans were generally nomads; they moved...
- Colonial Period
Early one morning, George Washington walked through his...
- An Independent Country
Early Explorers of Colonial America; The Revolutionary War;...
- 1780-early 1800’s
Art and literature had flourished in Europe for centuries....
- Early 20th Century
The spanish American war was a changing point for America...
- Mid-20th Century
Fun Facts Ella was born in 1917. She grew up in Yonkers, New...
- Late 20th Century
Since the building’s completion in 1753, Independence Hall...
- The 21st Century
Kamala Harris is the 49th vice president of the United...
- Historic Landmarks and Buildings
Chautauqua Institution and Movement In the late 1800s to...
- Early America
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- The Constitution
- Westward Expansion
- The New Country’S Foreign Policies
- Developments in Industry and Transportation
- Manifest Destiny
Before the war ended, the Second Continental Congress drafted a plan of government called the Articles of Confederation. The Articles, adopted in 1781, provided for a loose union of states and kept most of the powers of government for the individual states. It soon became clear that the Articles were not adequate for governing the growing nation. I...
After the United States became independent, people began to move into the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. The first states created west of the Appalachians were Kentucky in 1792 and Tennesseein 1796. Most of the people who lived in the West were farmers. They shipped their farm products down the Ohio and Mississi...
Foreign affairs caused the United States much concern during the early 1800s. Wars between Britain and France interfered with U.S. trade. To make matters worse, the British began stopping U.S. ships to search for British seamen who had deserted. Sometimes they forced U.S. sailors to serve on British ships. In 1812 the United States declared war on ...
The 1800s was a period of great industrial growth in the United States. An important development was Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin in 1793. This machine speeded up the process of separating seeds from cotton fibers. It led to a major expansion of the textile industry. It also caused the growing of cotton to spread throughout the Souther...
Improvements in transportation encouraged further expansion to the west. The growth of the United States was also encouraged by an idea called manifest destiny. In the mid-1800s many Americans came to believe that the United States was destined to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean, and even beyond. But the push toward the Pacific coast led to co...
Jan 25, 2019 · By the mid-1700s England had set up 13 colonies along the East Coast of America. There were three groups of colonies of the US-based on the way people lived in these colonies. Northeast ...
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American History. The American History Timeline provides a chronological account of significant events that have shaped the United States. It begins with the arrival of Native Americans and explores key moments such as the American Revolution, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights Movement.
From 1789 to 1850 the United States established itself as one of the great democracies in the world. It increased in population from less than 4 million to more than 23 million. At the same time it more than tripled its area to include almost 3 million square miles (7.8 million square kilometers).
