Questioning your country and constantly going back and examining the beauty of it and the flaws, I think that makes a patriotic American. — Soledad O’Brien
Notes for later reference
1.Rebels
1610 Jamestown tobacco
1620 Plymouth
1768 Boston
1774 Philadelphia
1775 Lexington
2. Revolution
1777 Saratoga General Burgoyne
Valley Forge Von Steuben
intelligence
1789 inauguration
3. Westward
1775 Cumberland
1803 Thomas Jefferson
1804 Rockies
1823 beaver hunting
1846 Sierra Nevada Donner
1835 Alamo Texas Mexico
1848 California
1830 Andrew Jackson tribes
4. Division
1825 Erie Canal Wall Street
1830 White Gold
1835 Lowell factory
1852 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1959 John Brown
5. Civil War
Robert E. Lee
railway
telegraph
photography
1863 Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg speech
6. Heartland
1865 transcontinental railway
1892 woodmen
1865 cowboy Colt
1890 native Americans
1883 Richard Sears
7. City
1885 Statue
1872 Carnegie
1895 Waring
1879 Edison
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory
8. Boom
1900 Hamil brothers
1913 Henry Ford
1914 LA aqueduct
1919 Chicago Race Riot
1919 prohibition 1928
1929 Al Capone
9. Bust
1934 Hoover Dam
1935 Radio
Mt. Rushmore
10. World War ||
1944 D-Day
1945 Hiroshima & Nagasaki
11. Superpower
Interstate Highway
suburbs Levittown baby boom
1969 moon
1863 Luther King
12. Millennium
1969-1974 Vietnam War
1974 Watergate
Regan television
space shuttle
1969 Internet boom Silicon Valley
1976 Apple
1999 9/11
