US+History+-+Timeline

= US History - Timeline = 

====**300:** First attempts at primitive agriculture were made, and by 300 BC evidence of early village life appeared in the river valleys of New Mexico and Arizona ====

**1492:** Colombus “discovered” America and mistakenly thought he'd reached India. That's why native Americans are called Indians.


**1540**: Spanish had taken control over 100 Indian Pueblos in Arizona and New Mexico, using both sword and the cross.

**1607:** First settlement was made in the USA in Jamestown, Virginia.
**1620:**The so-called “Pilgrim Fathers” arrived America with “Mayflower”.

====**1680:**__The Pueblo Revolt__ or Popé's Rebellion was an uprising of many pueblos against Spanish colonization of the Americans in the New Spain province of New Mexico. ====

====**1775-83:** The colonists were unhappy because they were controlled by Britain. This led to __the War of Independence__ between the colonists and Britain. The USA won. ====

====**1838-39:** Cherokees were forcefully removed from their homes in the area of Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina relocated in Oklahoma. This march has since come to be known as __The Trail of Tear__ as it has been estimated that over 4000 men, women and children (nearly one fifth of the Cherokees) died. ====

====**1860:** Seven southern states broke out of the union and formed a __confederacy__, based on slavery. To the South, slavery was vital to the plantation economy. The North, lead by Abraham Lincoln, looked at slavery as inhuman and wanted to abolish it. ====

====**1861-65:** The Civil War between the North and the South broke out to keep the union together. The resources of the North proved victorious, and the South surrendered after four years of fighting. 600 000 Americans died. ====

====**1862:** __The Homestead Act__ gave everyone who wanted to till land more or less free access to 160 acres on the Great Plains. This lead to a great rush of immigration, and fights with the Indians. ====

====**1864:** 8000 Navajos were removed from their homelands and forced to walk over 300 miles to a desolate tract of land in Northern New Mexico. Innumerable Indians died on __The Long Walk__, and when they arrived, the land was unfit to live on. ====

====**1865-1929:** After the Civil War the USA went into a period called __the Reconstruction__. During the first years after the war, it was important to unify the country again and to restore the South, both in terms of infrastructure and morally. ==== <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">**1876:** __The Battle of Little Big Horn__ in Northern Montana, was the one of few battles the Indians won. All 650 soldiers were killed. Somewhere between ten and fifteen Indians were present. It become a priority to defeat the “redskins”.

====<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">**1890:** __The massacre of Wounded Knee__ in South Dakota. White officials had become alarmed at the spread of the //Ghost Dance Religion// which preached that the earth would soon perish and the Indians would inherit a new world, free from suffering. Soldiers entered the Indian camp at Wounded Knee and tried to disarm the men. One gun went off and the shooting began. 150 Indians were killed and 50 more wounded in an hour. Less than 25 soldiers were killed and 39 wounded. This is considered as the last battle between white soldiers and Native Americans. ====

====<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">**1941:** The Japanese attack on the American naval base at __Pearl Harbor__, Hawaii, put an end to American neutrality and made World War II truly a world war. ====

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">**1944:** Native Americans received the __right to vote__.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">**1950-91:** The __Cold War__ between USA and Soviet ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

====<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">**1963-75:** The __war in Vietnam__. Fearing a communist takeover in Southeast Asia, President Kennedy sent troops to South Vietnam in 1963. Initially soldiers responded patriotically, but the war became increasingly unpopular and proved impossible to win. 58 000 American soldiers lost their lives and 300 000 were wounded. Over three million Vietnamese died, including women and children. ====

====<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">**2001:** On __September 11__, 2001, terrorists hijacked four jetliners and succeeded in crashing two planes into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon something that resulted in over 3000 deaths. ====