American+Timeline

1492 - Columbus discovers America for the Europeans

1607 - First Permanent English settlement, Jamestown

1732 - Georgia, the 13th colony, is founded

1774 - American Revolutionary War begins

1776 - Declaration of Independence signed

1783 - American Revolutionary War ends, America becomes its own country.

1786 - Ice cream first commercially made in New York (:D)

1787 - Constitution written

1789 - Bill of Rights written

1789 - George Washington becomes first president of the United States

1803 - Louisiana Purchase

1812 - War of 1812

1804 - Louis and Clark Expidition

1820 - Missouri Comprimise

1840 - Oregon Trail

1845 - Mexican-American War

1851 - Isaac Merritt Singer patents the sewing machine

1861 - Civil War begins

1865 - President Lincoln Assassinated, Civil War ends, 13th Amendment added to the Constitution

1867 - President Johnson is the first president to be impeached

1865-1877 - Reconstruction in the South

1901 - President McKinley assasinated

1908 - GE patents the electric toaster

1917 - US enters WWI

1920 - 18th Amendment passed, (bad), 19th Amendment passed, (good)

1941 - Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, US enters WWII

1945 - US A-bombs Japan, WWII ends

1950 - Korean War starts

1953 - Korean War ends

1955 - Vietnam War starts

1960's - Civil Rights Movement

1963 - Someone important was assassinated... but I just can't remember //who//...

1973 - President Nixon resigns over Watergate Scandal

1975 - Vietnam War finally ends

1991 - Gulf War

1998 - President Clinton second president to be impeached

2001 - 9/11 :(

2009 - President Obama elected as president.



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