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 Spiro
Mounds is the only Native
American archaeological site in Oklahoma
that is open to the public. Occupied from
850 to 1450, the mound and city complex
was once the center of a vast trade
network that stretched from the Gulf of California to the
Gulf of Mexico and Virginia to the Great
Lakes. |
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 Leif
Ericson is believed to have
established a Viking camp in North
America almost 500 years before Columbus
made his first voyage. |
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 George
Washington: A Chronology of His Life and
Career George Washington lived an
exciting life in exciting times. As a
boy, he explored the wilderness. When he
grew older, he helped the British fight
the French and Indians. Many times he was
nearly killed. As a general, he suffered
hardships with his troops in the cold
winters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,
and Morristown, New Jersey. He lost many
battles, but led the American army to
final victory at Yorktown, Virginia.
After he became President, he
successfully solved many problems in
turning the plans of the Constitution
into a working government. |
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 Cherokee
Strip Land Run On September
16, 1893, more than 115,000 people raced
to claim one of 42,000 parcels of land in
the largest, most spectacular, and last
land run in American history. |
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 Sir
John Alexander Macdonald was
the first Prime Minister of the Dominion
of Canada. During his long public career,
Canada grew from a group of colonies into
a self-governing, united dominion
extending across North America. |
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 United
Mexican States: Facts and Figures
Local Name Estados Unidos
Mexicanos. Total Area 761,607 sq
mi. Population 111,211,789. Capital
Mexico City. Independence from Spain
Achieved September 16, 1810. |
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 Fidel
Castro led the revolution
which forced Batista out of Cuba in 1958,
and subsequently ruled Cuba until poor
health forced him to step down in 2008.
The economic embargo imposed by the
United States in 1962 was spurred by his
nationalization of U.S.-owned businesses
in Cuba, which was in turn spurred by the
refusal of U.S.-owned oil refineries in
Cuba to process oil bought from the
Soviet Union. |
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