America: The Story of Us

Questioning your country and constantly going back and examining the beauty of it and the flaws, I think that makes a patriotic American. — Soledad O’Brien

Notes for later reference

1.Rebels

1610 Jamestown tobacco

1620 Plymouth

1768 Boston

1774 Philadelphia

1775 Lexington

2. Revolution

1777 Saratoga General Burgoyne

Valley Forge Von Steuben

intelligence

1789 inauguration

3. Westward

1775 Cumberland

1803 Thomas Jefferson

1804 Rockies

1823 beaver hunting

1846 Sierra Nevada Donner

1835 Alamo Texas Mexico

1848 California

1830 Andrew Jackson tribes

4. Division

1825 Erie Canal Wall Street

1830 White Gold

1835 Lowell factory

1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1959 John Brown

5. Civil War

Robert E. Lee

railway

telegraph

photography 

1863 Emancipation Proclamation

          Gettysburg speech

6. Heartland

1865 transcontinental railway

1892 woodmen

1865 cowboy Colt

1890 native Americans

1883 Richard Sears

7. City

1885 Statue

1872 Carnegie

1895 Waring

1879 Edison

1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory

8. Boom

1900 Hamil brothers

1913 Henry Ford

1914 LA aqueduct

1919 Chicago Race Riot

1919 prohibition 1928

1929 Al Capone

9. Bust

1934 Hoover Dam

1935 Radio

Mt. Rushmore

10. World War ||

1944 D-Day

1945 Hiroshima & Nagasaki

11. Superpower

Interstate Highway

suburbs Levittown baby boom

1969 moon

1863 Luther King

12. Millennium

1969-1974 Vietnam War

1974 Watergate

Regan television

space shuttle

1969 Internet boom Silicon Valley

1976 Apple

1999 9/11

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