United States of America timeline A chronology of key events: 1565 - First permanent European settlement in North America - St Augustine, present-day Florida - founded by the Spanish. North America is already inhabited by several distinct groups of people, who go into decline following the arrival of settlers. 1607 - Jamestown, Virginia, founded by English settlers, who begin growing tobacco. 1620 - Plymouth Colony, near Cape Cod, is founded by the Pilgrim Fathers, whose example is followed by other English Puritans in New England. 17th-18th centuries - Hundreds of thousands of Africans brought over and sold into slavery to work on cotton and tobacco plantations. 1763 - Britain gains control of territory up to the Mississippi river following victory over France in Seven Years' War. War of Independence 1774 - Colonists form First Continental Congress as Britain closes down Boston harbour and deploys troops in Massachusetts. 1783 - Britain accepts loss of colonies by virtue of Treaty of Paris. Civil War Global assertiveness
Pony Express Pony Express Advertisement Pony Express Postmark – 1860, Westbound The Pony Express was a mail service delivering messages, newspapers, mail, and even small packages from St. Joseph, Missouri across the Great Plains, over the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento, California by horseback, using a series of relay stations. During its 18 months of operation, it reduced the time for messages to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to about 10 days.[1] From April 3, 1860, to October 1861, it became the West's most direct means of east–west communication before the telegraph was established and was vital for tying the new state of California with the rest of the country. Inception and founding[edit] Alexander Majors The idea of a fast mail route to the Pacific coast was prompted largely by California's newfound prominence and its rapidly growing population. Replica of Pony Express Messenger's Badge Operation[edit] The B.F. Pony Express route[edit] Stations[edit] St.
“A Thousand Midnights”: Chicago and the Legacy of the Great Migration When I was growing up, my mother, Bette Parks Sacks, often told me stories about her youth in Mississippi. She spoke in a slow, sweet drawl, despite the fact that she’d spent her entire adult life in Chicago. I knew of the hardships and beauty of the South, transmitted to me through vivid recollections of her childhood and adolescence. I knew of her deep connection to the land, a holdover from a less-than-idyllic time when she picked cotton from sunup to sundown, beginning at the age of six. I knew that when she and her father headed to Chicago, in the nineteen-fifties, the day after she graduated from high school, they’d left everything behind, including almost all existing photographs of their large family. At the time, I didn’t realize that these intensely personal stories were part of a much larger historical narrative, one that was shared by millions of other black people who went on the same journey. “A Thousand Midnights,” a film from Brown Planet Productions, on Vimeo.
Primary History - Famous People - Christopher Columbus Seattle General Strike The Seattle General Strike of 1919 was a five-day general work stoppage by more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, which lasted from February 6 to February 11 of that year. Dissatisfied workers in several unions began the strike to gain higher wages after two years of World War I wage controls. Most other local unions, including members of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), joined the walkout. Although the strike was non-violent and lasted less than a week, government officials, the press, and much of the public viewed the strike as a radical attempt to subvert US institutions. Some commentators raised alarm by calling it the work of Bolsheviks and other radicals inspired by "un-American" ideologies, making it the first concentrated eruption of the anti-Red hysteria[citation needed] that characterized the Red Scare of 1919 and 1920. Background[edit] Strike[edit] Life during the strike[edit] Radical visions[edit]
Rate of Mass Shootings Has Tripled Since 2011, Harvard Research Shows Editor's note: The authors are scholars from the Harvard School of Public Health and Northeastern University; this article details their independent research, which is based on the mass shootings data Mother Jones has collected and published since 2012. In June, following gun attacks in California and Oregon, President Obama remarked that mass shootings are "becoming the norm." But some commentators claim that mass shootings are not on the rise. So which is it? Have mass shootings become more common? So why do we keep hearing in the media that mass shootings have not increased? Our method and how it works We used a Statistical Process Control method that analyzes the time interval between each incident. What our analysis reveals As the chart above shows, a public mass shooting occurred on average every 172 days since 1982. Because the chart signals that a new process started around September 2011, we can divide the chart at that point to analyze each phase separately.
Discovery of America *** Discovery of America Fact FileThe facts file is a chart containing fast, interesting information and list of the names of the explorers who played important roles in the discovery of America. Amerigo Vespucci arrives in the New World Discovery of America - The Naming and Origin of the NameAn important part in the history and Discovery of America was the facts behind the name. The man responsible for naming the land, and the origin of the name, was a German called Martin Waldseemuller. Martin Waldseemuller printed and sold 1000 copies of the map across Europe. The Discovery of America - The Geradus Mercator World Map The Discovery of America - Close-up view of Mercator's Map showing the names given
Ole Hanson Ole Hanson, mayor of Seattle and founder of San Clemente, California. Biography[edit] Early years[edit] Ole Hanson was born in a log cabin in Union Grove in Racine County, Wisconsin, the son of Thorsten Hanson and Goro Tostofson Hanson.[1] He was the fifth of six children raised by the Norwegian immigrant couple.[2] As a teenager, the precocious Hanson worked as a tailor during the day and studied law at night.[2] He passed the Wisconsin bar in 1893, despite being two years too young to practice law.[2] In the end, Hanson never did work in the legal profession, instead going into the grocery business before moving west and going into real estate.[3] He worked as a real estate developer and co-founded Lake Forest Park, Washington in 1912 as a rural planned community for professionals in the Seattle area. Political career[edit] In 1918, Hanson was elected the thirty-third mayor of Seattle. The so-called sympathetic Seattle strike was an attempted revolution. Founding San Clemente[edit] [edit]
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