USA HISTORY 🇺🇸
Native Americans 🪶
The American Revolution 🗽
The Civil War 🦅
The Great Depression 📉
The Cold War ☭
Southwestern Tribes 
Irrigation Systems 🚰
Corn Agriculture 🌽
Wool for clothing 🐑
Tall houses made of Adobe 🏠
Eastern Woodland Tribes 
Wood Houses 🏠🌲
made canoes 🛶
grew many vegetables 🥕
live in a long house 🏡
forests many animals bear, deer and rabbits 🐻 🦌 🐰
Plains Tribes 
Very good horsemen 🏇
They hunted buffalos for food and clothing 🐃
Homes called teepees 🔺
Grassy areas 🥀
They did not settle only in one place 💼
More feathers greater warrior he was ⚔
The Pilgrims 👨🏻🌾
In England
Separatists wanted to start a new Church, in America
The English crown did not approve of other religions
The Journey
The Mayflower
102 passengers , 25 crewmen,carry dogs,goats,pigs ⛵
Difficulties
Dangerous,long and difficult(weren´t bathrooms or running water)condtions were foul ⚠
Disease began to spread ☢
Arrival
New arrivals were Christians ✝
Laws fair for all people working for the good of the colony 👩🏽⚖️
Passangers did not leave the ship until work together called mayflower comtract. 🧾
Plymouth
A new life
First Winter was difficult ❄
Many nor survive the first winter ☠
William Bradford new governor 🧔🏻
The Wampanoag
Squanto
Helped the new settlers 🫱
spoke English 🇬🇧 🗣
Taught them to plant corn, best hunting location 👨🏽🏫
The Massacre of the Wampanoag
The pilgrims did not honor the peace treaty and attacked the Wampanoag several times, pushing them further west from their homeland. ⚔
Peace Treaty with the Pilgrims 🕊
Early Stages and Escalation (1765-1775)
Revolutionary War (1775-1777)
Diplomacy and Consolidation (1778-1789)
British policies 🇬🇧
Protests, boycott and general discontent 🔥
Navigation Act
French & Indian War
Writs of Assistance
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Townshend Act
Quartering Act
The first Continental congress reunited the first colony leaders, who organized against the Crown 👴
Full Scale Battles ⚔
The Continental Army grew under George Washington's command 🚩
A deal struck by Ben Franklin with the french, helped them succeed. 🇫🇷
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Yorktown
Declaration of Independence 📜
Era with many challenges and struggles ✊
The Treaty of Paris established the 13th Colonies as it's own free country 🇺🇸
Human Rights 👤
Grievances against the Crown 👑
Olive Branch Petition ☮
Early Battles
Total War
Reconstruction Era
This period is characterized by growing tensions between the North and the South 💥
First Battle of Ball Run: The first big fight. The Confederation won, raising the stakes of the conflict
Battle of Shiloh: Brutal and bloody encounter
Enmacipation Proclamation: In 1863, President Lincoln declared the freedom of the slaves, shifting the conflict's focus. 🎩
Battle of Gettysburg: Union Victory. Turning point ↩
Battle of Chattanooga: The North started to invade The South. 🔻
Fall of Richmond: The confederate capital falls under Union forces 🏳
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Complicates the reconstruction process. Many want to fill his void. ⚠
A new Country: Several laws and proclamations are ratified in Congress, building the identity of freedom for the USA. 🦅
Initial Economic Collapse (1929-1931)
Crisis and New Deal (1932-1936)
Recovery Pre-WWII (1937-1939)
Stock Market Crash: The NY Market crashed, wiping out millions of investors overnight 💸
Bank Failures: Banks were unable to sustain themselves and return the money to their clients 🏦
Unemployment skyrocketed 🏚
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Elected in 1932, tackled the crisis with bold government intervention
New Deal Programs: Social Security and other programs were created to build a safety net for Americans
Banking Reforms: The banks were supported by government aid, to recover their status
Recession of 1937: Despite the positive outcome of the intervention, a cut in spending at the end of the Roosevelt term caused economic contraction.
Fair Labor Standards Act: This law established minimum wage and other benefits for workers
The USA started to spend more o military and warfare, in preparation with the European conflict that ended up in WW2
Early confrontation
Competitive Coesxistance
End of the War
Truman Doctrine
The USA will defend the world from Communism
Marshall Plan
Aid to Western Europe, to counter Communism
Berlin Blockade
The USSR blocked access to western Berlin
NATO
Military Alliance to combat Communism
Korean War
The USA and the USR fought a proxy war for Korean ideologies
Cuban Missile Crisis
The USSR send nuclear warheads to Cuba, raising tensions
Nuclear Tests were banned to lower tensions
Arms and SPACE RACE 👩🏻🚀
Agreements and treaties to damper each other sides advancments
The Reagan Doctrine supported many anti-comunists cells around the world, weakining the Communist influence
The faltering economic state of the USSR motivated Mikhail Gorbachev to introduced policies of political openness
In 1989 the Berlin Wall falls, marking the end of the USSR establishment in Germany
In 1991 the USSR dissolves, providing independence to many territories in the balcans
The Civil Rights Movement ✊🏿
Early Activism
Mass Mobilization and Direct Action
The Rise of Black Power
In the early half of the 20th century, several small movements against segregation were introduced
After Rosa Park's arrest for refusing to give up a seggrgated seat in a bus, Protest and marches spred around the country, culminating in the 1963 Wahington demonstration led by DR. Martin Luther King
After the Civil Rights Act was signed in 1964, prohibiting segregation and disavowing discrimination, Black Power movements such as the Black Panther Party gained notoriety