History 1607-2001

By PattyPoer

  • 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.