Vikings led by Leif Erickson found Vinland in Newfoundland |
Columbus discovers America |
John Cabot reaches Newfoundland |
Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain |
Jacques Cartier explores Canada |
Hernando de Soto explores the South |
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado reaches New Mexico |
Roanoke |
Jamestown, Virginia |
Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec |
the Mayflower |
the English capture New Amsterdam and Fort Orange |
William Penn founds Pennsylvania |
New Orleans founded by the French |
James Oglethorpe founds Savannah in Georgia |
Vitus Bering discovers Alaska |
French and Indian War |
Battle of Quebec |
Treaty of Paris |
Boston Massacre |
Boston Tea Party |
American War of Independence |
Declaration of Independence |
Battle of Saratoga |
Battle of Yorktown |
Treaty of Paris |
Northwest Ordinance |
The United States Constitution signed |
Bill of Rights |
Cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney |
Washington D.C. becomes the capital |
Marbury vs. Madison |
Louisiana Purchase |
Lewis and Clark expedition |
Second War of Independence |
The Star Spangled Banner written |
Battle of New Orleans |
Acquisition of Florida |
Missouri Compromise |
Monroe's Doctrine |
Indian Removal Act |
Battles of Alamo, San Jacinto, Texas becomes a republic |
Texas joins the Union |
Mexican War |
Oregon Treaty |
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo |
Kansas - Nebraska Act |
American Civil War |
Emancipation Act |
Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg |
the Reconstruction |
Alaska Purchase |
Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone |
Battle of Little Big Horn |
Wounded Knee |
Plessy vs. Ferguson |
Spanish-American War |
Annexation of Hawaii |
Panama Canal built |
USA in WWI |
14 Points of Woodrow Wilson |
Great Depression |
Lend-Lease Act |
Atlantic Charter |
Pearl Harbor |
USA at WWII |
Operation Overlord |
Battle of the Bulge |
Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa |
Hiroshima and Nagasaki |