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The Jamestown settlement is founded by John Smith.
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The Mayflower lands with the pilgrims at Plymouth.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded.
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The Salem witch trials take place in Massachusetts.
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The French and Indian war begins between Great Britain and France. Both ally with different Native American tribes.
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The British win the French and Indian War gaining most of France's territory in North American.
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The British government imposes the Stamp Act on the colonies. The colonies protest with the Stamp Act Congress.
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The Boston Massacre occurs.
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Bostonians protest the Tea Act with the Boston Tea Party dumping tea into the Boston Harbor.
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The First Continental Congress is held. The British government imposes the Intolerable Acts on the colonies.
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The Revolutionary War begins with the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
The Second Continental Congress is held. The Battle of Bunker Hill occurs. -
The American colonies declare their independence as the United States of America.
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The Continental Army stays at Valley Forge for the winter.
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The Revolutionary War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris.
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The Constitution is adopted by the Constitutional Convention.
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George Washington becomes the first President of the United States.
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The cotton gin is invented by Eli Whitney. .
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Explorers Lewis and Clark set out on their journey to the Pacific Ocean. .
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The War of 1812 begins against Great Britain.
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U.S. troops led by Andrew Jackson defeat the British at the Battle of New Orleans.
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The Monroe Doctrine is declared by President James Monroe.
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The Mexican-American War begins.
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Abraham Lincoln is elected president.
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The American Civil War begins.
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Slavery is outlawed by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton.
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Basketball is invented by James Naismith.
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The Boy Scouts of America is founded.
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The United States joins World War I on the side of the Allies declaring war on Germany .
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Women gain the right to vote through the Nineteenth Amendment.
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Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released as the first full length animated movie.
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The U.S. takes part in the Invasion of Normandy.
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The Korean War begins.
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
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The first Super Bowl is held.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.
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Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the Moon.
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The Gulf War begins as Iraq invades Kuwait.
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The Iraq War begins as the U.S. and other countries invade Iraq.
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Barack Obama becomes the first African-American President of the United States.
