American history
American History: One Hundred Points In Time.
Select an event:
The Siberian Land Bridge - 12000 BCE
The Clovis People - 11,000 BC
The Mississippian Civilization - 700 CE
Viking Settlement - 1000 CE
The Basques - 1400 CE
The Voyage of Christopher Columbus - 1492 CE
European Diseases Decimate Native Peoples - 1500 CE
Hernando De Soto and the Natchez Trace - 1540 CE
Spanish Exploration in North America - 1540 CE
The Lost Colony of Roanoke - 1588 CE
The Middle Passage - 1600
The Jamestown Colony - 1607
French Exploration - 1608
The Voyage of the Sea Venture - 1609
Dutch Exploration and Settlement - 1609
Rolfe, Tobacco, and Pocahontas - 1610
The First Slaves Arrive in Jamestown - 1619
British Empire - 1620
Plymouth Colony - 1620
Massachusetts Bay Colony - 1630
The Original Thirteen Colonies - 1650
Fur Trading - 1670
Salem Witch Trials - 1692
Colonial Life - 1700
Colonial Slavery - 1700
The North American Whaling Industry - 1712
The Stono Slave Rebellion - 1739
The French and Indian War - 1754
Agriculture in the Thirteen Colonies - 1760
Watt's Steam Engine - 1760
Proclamation of 1763
The Stamp Act - 1765
The Sons of Liberty - 1765
The Quartering Act - 1765
The Boston Massacre - 1770
The Boston Tea Party - 1773
The Shot Heard Round the World - 1775
The American Revolution - 1775
The Declaration of Independence - 1776
Valley Forge - 1776
Battle of Trenton - 1776
The Battle of Yorktown - 1781
The Constitution of The United States of America - 1787
The Bill of Rights - 1791
The Invention of the Cotton Gin - 1794
Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase - 1803
The Louis and Clark Expedition - 1803
The War of 1812
The Erie Canal - 1817
The Missouri Compromise - 1820
The Monroe Doctrine - 1823
Steam Boats on the Mississippi - 1823
The Forks of the Road Slave Market - 1825
Andrew Jackson and the Indian Wars - 1825
The Trail of Tears - 1831
Nat Turner's Rebellion - 1831
Last Days of the Mountain Men - 1831
The Alamo - 1836
The Mexican - American War - 1846
The Donner Party - 1846 CE
The California Gold Rush - 1849
The Kansas - Nebraska Act - 1854
John Brown's Rebellion - 1859
Abraham Lincoln is Elected 16th President - 1860
The Firing on Fort Sumter - 1861
The American Civil War - 1861
The Battle of Gettysburg - 1863
Appomattox - 1865
Reconstruction - 1865
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) - 1866
The Wild West- 1866
The Transcontinental Railroad - 1869
African Americans After Emancipation - 1870
The Gilded Age 1870 - 1900
The Little Big Horn - 1876
The Progressive Era 1890 - 1920
The Spanish - American War - 1898
The Panama Canal - 1914
World War I - 1914
The Roaring 20's and Prohibition - 1920
The Gangsters - 1920
The Great Depression - 1929
Franklin D. Roosevelt and The New Deal - 1933
The Tennessee Vallley Authority - 1933
World War II - 1941
The Holocaust - 1941
The Battle of Normandy - 1944
German Surrender - 1945
The Atom Bomb - 1945
The Cold War - 1945
The Korean War - 1950
Sputnik - 1957
The Berlin Wall - 1961
The Civil Rights Act - 1964
The Vietnam War - 1964
Ronald Reagan - 1981
9/11 - 2001
Middle East Wars and Rebellion - 2001
Robots on Mars - 2003
African-American President - 2009