U.S.

By Kailee.532
  • Oct 24, 1497

    Italian born John Cabot claims North America for England

  • Period: Oct 24, 1497 to

    U.S. Historical Events

  • Oct 24, 1534

    Jacques Cartier of France explored the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River

  • Captain John Smith founds the English colony of Jamestown

  • Henry Hudson explores Northeastern North America including the Hudson River

  • Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War

  • Colonists declare their independence from England with the Declaration of Independence

  • Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed with France

  • War of 1812 between United States and Great Britain

  • Oregon Treaty signed and the boundary between Canada and the United States is established at the 49th parellel (line of latitude)

  • Civil War begins

  • Civil War ends

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Gold is discoverd in the Yukon's Klondike

  • United States enters WWI fighting with the British and French

  • Great Depression beging in the U.S.

  • Japan attacks U.S. Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters WWII with the Allies

  • U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagaski

  • Neil Armstrong is first man to walk the moon

  • United States sign a Free Trade Agreement with Canada

  • Persian Gulf War

  • Occupation of Iraq by the United States

  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed between Canada, the United States, and Mexico