US

By korey.270
  • Oct 24, 1497

    Italian born John Cabot claims North America for England

  • Period: Oct 24, 1497 to

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  • Oct 24, 1524

    Jacques Cartier of France explores 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 Decloration Of Independence

  • Luisianna Purchase Treaty signed with France

  • War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain

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

  • Civil War begins

  • Civil War ends

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Gold is Discovered in the Yukon's Klondike

  • United States enters WW1 fighting with the British and French

  • Great Deppresion begins in the U.S.

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

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

  • Neil Armstrong is first to walk on the moon

  • United States sign a Free Trade Agreement with Canada

  • Persian Golf War

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

  • Occupation if Iraq by the United States