Unit 2: No Thanks, No Giving (1ère Générale)

Native American Timeline:

-40,000 to 11,000 years ago: The First Native Americans immigrated to the North of America.

-8,000 years ago: They started to cultivate vegetables and plants.

-In 300: They created the bow and the arrow to hunt.

-In 1492: Christopher Columbus traveled from Spain and discovered the Americas.

-In the 1600’: Exploration and settlements by the Mississippi River of French settlers. Besides, it was the beginning of conflicts between the two groups.

-1607: Jamestown was founded by the first British colony in Virginia. Captain John Smith was captured and saved by the Chief’s Daughter.

-1700 to 1800: For a 100 years Europeans colonists killed the NA through wars and sicknesses they brought with them. On top of that, governments took away NA’s rights and lands.

-in 1709: NA were sold as slaves in NYC.

-in 1848: Because of the Gold Rush a huge slaughter of NA happened in California.

-In 1870: Bison were nearly extinct: crisis for the Native Americans.

-In 1871: The Indian Appropriation Act by the government to take sway over the NA’s lands.

In 1872: The number of NA decreased from 300,000 to 30,000 in California.

-In 1924: NA got the right to vote in the USA. Then in 1962 they had full voting rights in all the states.

-From 1930s to 1990s: NA won the right to govern themselves in large section of lands.

Homework: Learn the lesson.