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300 B.C. – Maize first grown in Eastern North America. 100 B.C. – A.D. 400 – The Hopewell tradition flourishes. 600 – Emergence of Mississippian culture. 700 – Use of the bow and arrow becomes widespread among peoples of Eastern North America. 1000 – Leif Ericson explores the east coast of North America. [1]
Church membership statistics by denomination are unreliable and scarce from the colonial period, [122] but Anglicans were not in the majority by the time of the American Revolutionary War and probably did not comprise even 30 percent of the population in the Southern Colonies (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia ...
Colonial America. Baroque (New World, 1600–1750) Spanish hegemony ... (Some of this time period is known as the "Old West".) Gilded Age (1877–1896) Fourth Party ...
Colonial Era: 1607–1765: 1776–1789 American Revolution: 1765–1783 Confederation period: 1783–1788 ... Dictionary of American History (Littlefield, Adams 1989)
The American Revolution led to the first abolition laws in the Americas, although the institution of chattel slavery would continue to exist and expand across the Southern United States until finally being abolished at the time of the American Civil War in 1865.
Corwin House, Salem, Massachusetts, built ca. 1670, First Period English. American colonial architecture includes several building design styles associated with the colonial period of the United States, including First Period English (late-medieval), Spanish Colonial, French Colonial, Dutch Colonial, and Georgian. [1]
Prehistoric and Pre-Columbian Era: until 1607: Colonial Era: 1607–1765: 1776–1789 American Revolution 1765–1783 Confederation period 1783–1788: 1789–1815 ...
Postcolonialism is a term used to recognize the continued and troubling presence and influence of colonialism within the period designated as after-the-colonial. It refers to the ongoing effects that colonial encounters, dispossession and power have in shaping the familiar structures (social, political, spatial, uneven global interdependencies ...