History Detective Project List

Native Americans
-Mayan
-Aztec
-Anasazi
-Other tribes
Early Explorers
-The Vikings
-Christopher Columbus
-Cortez
-Magellan
-Sir Francis Drake
-Triangular Trade
Early Colonization
-Roanoke
-Jamestown
-Algonquians
-The Mayflower
-Plymouth
-Wampanoags
-The Great Harvest
13 Colonies
-Colonial Life
-New England Colonies
-Middle Colonies
-Southern Colonies
-Spanish Colonialism
-French Colonialism
American Revolution
-Stamp Tax
-Boston Massacre
-Boston Tea Party
-Minutemen
-George Washington
-Lexington & Concord
-Revolutionary War
-Lexington & Concord

Independence

-US Constitution
-Executive Branch
-Legislative Branch
-Judicial Branch
-Bill of Rights
-Amendments
Westward Expansion
-Louisiana Purchase
-Indian Removal Act
-Trail of Tears
-Oregon Trail
-Gold Rush
-Utah Pioneers

WWI & Great Depression

-War in Europe
-New War Technology
-Dust Bowl
-Stock Market Crash
-FDR & The New Deal
WWII
-Hitler
-Nazi Germany
-Communism
-The Holocaust
-Pearl Harbor
-Relocation Camps
-Atomic Bomb
Civil Rights
-Segregation

-Transcontinental Railroad

-Brown v Board of Education

Industrial Revolution
-Eli Whitney & Cotton Gin
-Lowell Mills
-Immigrant Workers
-Steam Power
Civil War & Reconstruction
-Abe Lincoln
-Slavery in the South
-Underground Railroad
-Union Army
-Confederate Army

-Rosa Parks
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Cold War
-Space Race
-Bay of Pigs
-Korean War
-Vietnam War
-Iron Curtain
-Berlin Wall
Present Day America
-Computers & Internet
-September 11, 2001
-War in Iraq
-War in Afghanistan
- Hurricane Katrina
- Election of Barack Obama

-Declaration of Independence

-Constitutional Convention

-Emancipation Proclamation

-Lincolns Assassination
-Reconstruction
-Jim Crow Laws
-Freedmans Bureau
Immigration
-Irish Potato Famine
-Ellis Island

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