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US History 1 Conquest:
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30,000-20,000 B.C. |
Indians cross the Bering Strait into North America? or come in boats from other locations, or according to their own histories were created by the Gods in this place. |
| 12,000 B.C. | Land bridge across what is now the Bering Strait opens ice free corridor. Note timing problem for the land bridge theory. |
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8000-5000 B.C. |
Central American Indians begin to practice agriculture Paleo Hunting Culture on the Plains (Folsom, Clovis, First View) |
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2000-1500 B.C. |
Agricultural revolution transforms Native American life |
| 1200-300 BC | Olmec culture flourishes in S central Mexico. Olmec civilization is the culture hearth for subsequent Mesoamerican high culture. Writing, complex mathematics, and civic architecture. link to museum exhibit |
| 1000 BC to 700 AD | Adena mound culture flourishes based on sunflower and amaranth agriculture in Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Indiana especially Ohio Valley to Mississippi Valley. |
| 500 BC to 700 AD | Hopewell Mound culture flourishes Centered in Ohio River Valley. Trade into Canada and the Southwest. |
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A.D. 300-900 |
Maya civilization flourishes in present-day Mexico and Guatemala |
| AD 800-1500 | Mississippian Culture, based on maize, flourishes Mid South peaked 1200-1500 AD |
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c. 900 |
Toltecs rise to power in the Valley of Mexico and later conquer the Mayas |
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1502 |
Montezuma becomes emperor of the Aztecs |
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1521 |
Cortez defeats the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan |
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1616-1618 |
Disease destroys up to 90% of Native American populations of coastal New England |
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1622 |
Surprise Indian attack devastates Virginia |
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1644 |
Second major Indian attack in Virginia |
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1675 |
King Philip's (Metacomet’s) War devastates New England |
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1680 |
Pope leads Pueblo revolt against the Spanish in New Mexico |
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1794 |
General Anthony Wayne defeats Indians at Battle of Fallen Timbers (August) |
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1811 |
Harrison defeats Indians at Tippecanoe (November) |
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1814 |
Jackson crushes Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend (March) |
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1818 |
Andrew Jackson invades Florida |
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1830 |
Congress passes Indian Removal Act |
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1835-1842 |
Blacks fight alongside Indians in the Second Seminole War |
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1864 |
Colonel John Chivington leads massacre of Indians at Sand Creek, Colorado |
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1865-1867 |
Sioux fight against white miners and U.S. army in Great Sioux War |
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1867-1868 |
Policy of "small reservations" for Indians adopted |
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1876 |
Custer and his men defeated and killed by the Sioux at battle of Little Bighorn (June) |
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1887 |
Congress passes Dawes Severalty Act, making Indians individual landowners - much reservation land lost. |
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1889 |
Oklahoma Territory opened to settlement |
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1890 |
Teton Sioux massacred at battle of Wounded Knee, South Dakota (December) |
| 2003 | Lawsuit before Federal Court over US Government mismanagement of monies due Indians from Dawes Act |