Categories: U.S. history timelines // Pre-Columbian America For details, see the main Pre-Columbian America article. ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... Starting in the late 16th century, the English began to colonize North America. ... Era Overview On April 19, 1775, a detachment of the British regular Army marched inland from Boston, Massachusetts, in search of a cache of arms and with orders to arrest certain prominent local leaders. ... This article is about the year 1776. ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... At the end of the Civil War, the country was still bitterly divided. ... // Aftermath of World War I A 1919 sheet music cover A popular Tin Pan Alley song of 1919 asked, concerning the United States troops returning from World War I, How Ya Gonna Keep Em Down On the Farm After Theyve Seen Paree?. In fact, many did not remain down... The Cold War Main article: Cold War (1953-1962). ... // Civil rights The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 changed the political mood of the country. ... // Changing demographics and the growth of the Sun Belt The most widely discussed demographic phenomenon of the 1970s was the rise of the Sun Belt, the Southwest, Southeast, and especially Florida and California (surpassing New York as the nations most populous state in 1964). ... // 1988 presidential election For details see the main article U.S. presidential election, 1988. ... Many natives of North America, as the Europeans found them, were semi-nomadic tribes of hunter-gatherers; others were sedentary and agricultural civilizations. ... Canada is a nation of 33 million inhabitants, occupying almost all of the northern half of the North American continent, and being the second largest country in the world. ... // Pre-Columbian Mexico Hunter-Gatherer peoples are thought to have inhabited Mexico more than 20,000 years ago. ... As a region, the Caribbean played an important role in the colonial struggles between the European powers between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. ... The United States has a rich and complicated diplomatic history. ... This is a timeline of the history of Canada. ... This is a list of U.S. states by order of admission into the Union. ...