1.

The Colonial Era & the Revolution

Left Side of Hallway - Native Americans (tepee, warrior) - Columbus - The Mayflower and Plymouth Rock (1620) - Squanto and the Pilgrims- Thanksgiving - The 13 colonies (map?) - Redcoats (Wall) Right Side of Hallway - Common Sense pamphlet by Thomas Paine - Boston Tea Party (1773) - Declaration of Independence & Liberty Bell (1776) - Washington crossing the Delaware (Christmas 1776) - Alliance with France - Original 13-star flag

George Washington

2. The Early United States

- The Louisiana Purchase (1803), Lewis and Clark - Aaron Burr duels & kills Alexander Hamilton (1804) - During the War of 1812 (Between the U.S. and England), Francis Scott Key writes The Star Spangled Banner in Baltimore - Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin - Trail of Tears (1830)- Native Americans forced West - Kentucky statesman Henry Clay - The Oregon Trail - California Gold Rush to Sutters Mill - Official rules for baseball set down (1845)

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson

3. The Civil War

- Underground railroad & Harriet Tubman - Fort Sumter attacked - Divided country (map) - Canons, rifles, navy uniform soldiers - Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis (President of Confederacy), Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant

4. The Gilded Age

- Rutgers v. Princeton 1st football game played (1869) - Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty- immigrants from Italy and Ireland - The First Transcontinental Railroad completed (1869) - The robber barons- John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie- become incredibly wealthy off steel & oil - Spanish-American War (1898) America gains control of Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico - Thomas Edison inventions- light bulb, motion picture camera, phonograph - Wright brothers fly the first airplane (1903)

5. WWI & The Roaring Twenties

- British ship RMS Lusitania sunk by the Germans - Trench warfare, tanks, and airplanes all used - America joins England and France against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire - WWI recruitment propaganda posters - 1920 Women can vote -Art Deco -Automobiles become popular -Radio -Cities- NY, Chicago -Prohibition- alcohol banned -Jazz Music -Flappers -Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic Ocean -Gangsters/Organized crime -Wall Street Crash of 1929

Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge

6. The Great Depression & WWII

- The Grapes of Wrath - Picket signs (Will Work for Food, etc.) - Empire State Building (1931) - Soup Kitchens - FDR - Mt. Rushmore - Pearl Harbor (1941) - Propaganda posters (Uncle Sam wants you!) - Aircraft carrier ships - Battle of Iwo Jima (soldiers pulling up US flag)

Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman

7. 60s, 70s, and 80s

- Vietnam- soldiers, helicopters - Suburbs - Space Race- Man on the Moon (1969) - Soviet Union - Lake Placid, NY Olympics- Miracle Hockey team -Vietnam protestors -Hippies- Summer of Love (San Francisco) -Woodstock/Jimi Hendrix -Civil Rights Movement- Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X

John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan

8. The Modern Age

- Desert Storm -9/11 - Steve Jobs/Apple - Global Warming - War on Terrorism (Afghanistan/ Iraq) -

George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama