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68 Cards in this Set
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850 CE
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Pueblo spread in Chaco Canyon
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850 - 1150 CE
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Pueblo Bonito is built
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1020 - 1130 CE
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Pueblo Bonito is enlarged in 3 stages
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1150 CE
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Pueblo dispersed and left Chaco Canyon
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1598
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Spanish establish first colonial settlement
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1681
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William Penn forms Pennsylvania for Quakers
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1682 or 1683
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Penn signs Treaty of Shackamaxon with Native Chiefs
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1720
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Villasur Expedition is cut off by Natives halting Spanish expansion
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1720
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Segesser II is made by unknown artists
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1737
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Thomas Penn orchestrates Walking Purchase defrauding Delaware peoples land
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1750 |
Scipio Moorhead is born |
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1758 |
Philip von Segesser von Brunegg sends 2 hides back to Switzerland (Segesser I & II) |
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1761 |
Philis Wheatley is kidnapped from West Africa and arrives in Boston |
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1767 |
Britain passes the Townshend Acts |
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1767 |
Charles Willson Peale travels to London to study painting with Benjamin West |
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1768 |
John Singleton Copley paints a portrait of Paul Revere |
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1769 |
The British Royal Academy is formed by Joshua Reynolds along with Benjamin West |
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1769-1809 |
Thomas Jefferson, Monticello |
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1770 |
The Boston Massacre takes place when an angry mob throws snowballs at British soldiers, who then fire upon the crowd and kill five people. |
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1770 |
After Henry Pelham, The Boston Massacre |
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1771-72 |
Benjamin West, Penn’s Treaty with the Indians |
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1772 |
Waxwork Sculptor Patience Wright moves to England in search of more patrons. |
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1773 |
Frustrated colonists board British ships and dump tea into Boston Harbor. |
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1773 |
After (?) Scipio Moorhead, published by Archibald Bell, Portrait of Phillis Wheatley |
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1773 |
Phillis Wheatley publishes a collection of poems titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. |
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1774 |
Boston-based portraitist John Singleton Copley leaves America for England in 1774 and never returns. |
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1776 |
George Washington leads troops across the Delaware River on Christmas Eve, allowing them to surprise Hessian forces and win the Battle of Trenton, a crucial victory in the Revolutionary War. |
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1776-83 |
Prudence Punderson, The First, Second and Last Scene of Mortality1782Robert Edge Pine, Patience Lovell Wright |
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1782 |
Robert Edge Pine, Patience Lovell Wright |
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1783 |
The Treaty of Paris is signed, marking the end of the American Revolution. |
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1786 |
Charles Willson Peale opens the Peale Museum in Philadelphia. |
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1789 |
George Washington is installed as the first president of the United States. |
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1790 |
The District of Columbia is selected as the site of the United States capital with the passage of the “Residence Act” by Congress. |
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1793 |
Thomas Jefferson proposes a design competition to find an architect for the U.S. Capitol building. |
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1793 |
William Thornton, Charles Bulfinch, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe, United States Capitol |
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1796 |
Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (the Lansdowne Portrait) |
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1799 |
Russians arrive in the Alaskan panhandle, and tensions emerge as they compete with the native people over resources. |
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1800 |
Thomas Jefferson is elected as the third president of the United States. |
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1801 |
Charles Willson Peale leads an expedition to unearth a mastodon skeleton in Newburgh, New York. |
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1804 |
The Tlingit and the Russians fight in the Battle of Sitka. The Russians are victorious and establish a presence at Sitka. |
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1806-08 |
Charles Willson Peale, Exhumation of the Mastodon |
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1812 |
The War of 1812 begins between Britain and America over British violations of maritime law and restrictions on American trade. |
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1814 |
British troops set fire to the U.S. Capitol, heavily damaging the building, which is still under construction. |
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1814 |
Dolley Madison and Paul Jennings rescue a copy of Stuart’s Lansdowne Portrait of Washington from the White House as British forces start setting fire to the city. |
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1815 |
The Treaty of Ghent is ratified, marking the end of the War of 1812. |
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1825 |
Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, and others found the National Academy of Design in New York City to provide training and an exhibition space for young artists. |
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1832 |
Congress commissions Horatio Greenough to sculpt a monument to George Washington for the Capitol in honor of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. |
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1840 |
Horatio Greenough, George Washington |
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1849 |
The name “Pueblo Bonito” is recorded for the first time when the Washington Expedition visits Chaco Canyon. |
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1851 |
Robert S. Duncanson, View of Cincinnati, Ohio from Covington, Kentucky |
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1851 |
Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware |
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1852 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin. |
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1861 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes the poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” in The Atlantic Monthly |
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1861 |
Confederate troops fire on Fort Sumter, marking the beginning of the Civil War. |
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1863 |
Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation |
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1863 |
Thomas Crawford’s Statue of Freedom is installed atop the Capitol dome. |
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1865 |
Robert S. Duncanson travels to England, where his paintings are well received by Lord Alfred Tennyson, among others. |
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1865 |
The Civil War ends when Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. |
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1867 |
Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free1867With the Alaska Purchase, the United States acquires the land from Russia in a deal negotiated by Secretary of State William Seward for 7.2 million dollars. |
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1886 |
Harriet Powers displays her Bible Quilt at the Cotton Fair in Athens, Georgia, where it attracts the attention of a local artist. |
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1890 |
President Benjamin Harrison designates Sitka National Historic Park as Alaska’s first national park. |
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1895-98 |
Harriet Powers, Pictorial Quilt |
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1904 |
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, a World’s Fair held in St. Louis, features an Alaska display with totem poles collected from Tlingit and Haida communities. |
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1906 |
President Theodore Roosevelt establishes Chaco Canyon as a national monument. |
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1938 |
As part of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Civilian Conservation Corps in Alaska is tasked with repairing and restoring totem poles and other Native American artifacts. |
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1983 |
Gaanax.ádi/Raven Crest Pole, Sitka National Historic Park |
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1983 |
The Segesser hide paintings are acquired by the New Mexico History Museum, allowing the hides to return to the location where they were likely created. |
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2002 |
A museum exhibition brings attention and critical acclaim to a community of African-American quilters from Gee’s Bend, Alabama. |