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People (14)

Frontier general, champion of the common white man, and 7th President of the United States

Sauk leader whose 1832 return to Illinois became the last armed Native resistance east of the Mississippi

The Kaw Nation senator who rose to the vice presidency

Nez Perce leader whose 1877 flight became a symbol of Native resistance

The Lakota war leader who defended the Plains and never surrendered to the reservation

The Apache leader whose final surrender in 1886 ended the last armed Native resistance in the American Southwest

The Native American athlete often called the greatest of the 20th century

The man who founded two colonies for two rival powers

Shoshone guide and interpreter whose knowledge made the Corps of Discovery possible

Cherokee polymath who invented a writing system and made his nation literate in a single generation

Hunkpapa Lakota chief who united the Plains nations against American expansion

Shawnee leader who built the most powerful Indigenous confederacy in American history

William Henry Harrison

9th President of the United States, 1841

General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army and the Soldier Who Defined an Era, 1786–1866

Places (14)

Seward's Icebox — America's largest and most remote state

Alcatraz Island

The island fortress in San Francisco Bay that held the nation's most dangerous men — and became a symbol of Native resistance

The South Pacific territory whose people are American nationals, not citizens

Cherokee Nation

The sovereign nation reconstituted in Indian Territory after the Trail of Tears

The Dutch fur post that became Albany, founded 1624

The Pacific island taken without a shot in 1898 and fortified ever since

America's fiftieth state — a Pacific kingdom annexed, attacked, and transformed

The Montana battlefield where Lakota and Cheyenne warriors defeated the 7th Cavalry

The largest Indian reservation in the United States, spanning 27,000 square miles across the Four Corners

The Dutch colony on the Hudson, 1624-1664

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

The Oglala Lakota reservation in South Dakota — site of Wounded Knee

Plymouth Colony

The Pilgrim settlement of 1620 — first successful English colony in New England

Rocky Mountains

The 3,000-mile cordillera that defined the western frontier and the Continental Divide

The Black Hills

The mountains the Supreme Court said were taken illegally — and that the Lakota have refused to sell back

Eras (3)

Age of Exploration and Contact

The 115 years of European arrival that reshaped two continents, 1492–1607

Jacksonian Democracy

The 20 years of democratic expansion — and brutal exclusion — that remade American politics, 1828–1848

Pre-Columbian America

The 15,000-year human history of the Americas before European contact

Events (11)

Caribbean barbacoa, enslaved pitmasters, and four regional traditions

The contested October holiday marking Columbus's 1492 landing

Lewis and Clark Expedition

The 1804–1806 Corps of Discovery that mapped the American West to the Pacific

The 2,000-mile overland route that carried 400,000 settlers to the American West, 1840–1869

From Native squash to the canned filling that fixed a national recipe

Sand Creek Massacre

The Slaughter of a Cheyenne and Arapaho Village Under a Flag of Truce, November 1864

The First Thanksgiving

The 1621 harvest feast at Plymouth and the myth that grew around it

The Purchase of Manhattan

What the one surviving document actually says, 1626

The forced relocation of Native nations from the American Southeast, 1830–1850

Wounded Knee 1973

The 71-Day AIM Occupation That Revived Native American Resistance

Wounded Knee Massacre

The 1890 killing of at least 250 Lakota men, women, and children that ended the Indian Wars

Documents (4)

The 1887 Law That Dismantled Native American Tribal Land

Indian Removal Act

The 1830 law that authorized the forced relocation of Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi

The Indian Citizenship Act

The 1924 law that made Native Americans citizens of a country built on their land

The Proclamation of 1763

The line along the Appalachians that closed the West

Concepts (5)

Manifest Destiny

The 19th-century belief that American expansion across the continent was fated and righteous

Native American History

The nations who were here first — conquest, removal, and a story of survival

The American Indian Movement

The activism that revived Native rights and demanded the treaties be honored

The Iroquois Confederacy

The Haudenosaunee league that united nations under one Great Law of Peace

Westward Expansion

The century-long process by which the United States spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific

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Politics 178 Economy 171 Military 129 Reform 121 Civil Rights 118 Law & Justice 116 Presidency 113 Science & Technology 112 Foreign Policy 107 Arts & Culture 103 Race 98 Founding Era 96 Industry 90 Constitution 75 Modern America 67 Protest 66 Cold War 65 Civil War 62 Westward Expansion 61 War 59 Revolution 59 Slavery 57 Media & Press 57 Women 56 Indigenous 51 Diplomacy 47 Immigration 41 Labor 40 Environment 36 Colonial America 34 Congress 33 Religion 33 World War II 32 Supreme Court 32 Disaster 29 Exploration 27 Public Health 25 Progressive Era 25 Abolition 22 Finance 22 Reconstruction 22 Democracy 20 Gilded Age 19 Assassination 15 Education 15 Suffrage 11 World War I 9 Sports 9 Corruption 9 Prohibition 1