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Jamestown, Virginia
First successful English Colony -
Puritans founded Plymouth Colony
The second permanent British settlement. -
Rhode Island was founded
Roger Williams left Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island. -
Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War ended. The end of the war left England in control of Canada and all of North America east of the Mississippi. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of patriots disguised themselves as Indians, and boarded the British merchant ships and dumped 342 crates of tea into the Boston harbor. -
Revolutionary War
The beginning of the Revolutionary War. -
Yorktown, Virginia
The last major battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris
This document officially ended the Revolutionary War. -
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson becomes the third president. -
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln is elected for president. -
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth assassinates Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. -
World War I
World War I erupted in Europe. -
North Korea
North Korea's army invaded South Korea. -
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy was elected president. -
Richard Nixon
Nixon became the only U.S. president to resign from office. -
9/11
Terrorists hijacked four American airliners and crashed them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., and a rural field in Pennsylvania. This resulted in about 3,000 people killed.