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1607 Jamestown Virginia
First successful English colony was founded -
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US History
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1620 Plymouth Colony
Puritans found the second permanent British settlement -
1636
Roger Williams left Massachusetts and found the colony of Rhode Island -
1763
End of the Seven Years' War leaving England in control of Canada and all of North America east of the Mississippi -
1773 Boston Tea Party
A group of patriots disguised as Indians, boarded British merchant ships and dumped 342 crates of tea into Boston harbor -
1774
Colonial leaders convened the First Continental Congress to discuss the colonies' opposition to British rule -
1775 Lexington and Concord
War broke out when British soldiers confronted colonial rebels in Lexington, Massachusetts -
1776
Continental Congress adopted a Declaration of Independence -
1777
The turning point in the Revolutionary War when American soldiers defeated the British Army at Saratoga, New York -
1781
The last major battle of the American Revolution in Yorktown, Virginia -
1783
When the war officially ended with the Treaty of Paris by which England recognized American independence -
1801
Thomas Jefferson became the third president of the United States -
1803
Thomas Jefferson purchased the vast Louisiana Territory from France, almost doubling the size of the United States -
1820
Southern and northern politicians debated the question of whether slavery would be legal in the western territories -
1828
Andrew Jackson became the first "outsider" elected president -
1846
The outcome of the Mexican War brought more territory into American hands -- and with it the issue of whether to extend slavery -
1850
A compromise admitting California as a free state, leaving the citizens of Utah and New Mexico being allowed to choose whether they wanted slavery within their borders or not. -
1865
Assisination of Abraham Lincoln