Events before the Civil War

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  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus Lands in America

  • Jamestown

  • Plymouth and the Pilgrims

  • New York City founded

  • French and Indian War

  • First Continental Congress

  • Second Continental Congress

  • Revolutionary War

    The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the American War of Independence,[N 1] or simply the Revolutionary War in the United States, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, but gradually grew into a world war between Britain on one side and the newly formed United States, France, Netherlands, Spain, and Mysore on the other. American independence was achieved and European powers recognized the independence of the United States, with mixed results for the

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.

  • Constitution

  • Pennsylvania Founded

  • George Washington becomes president

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

    The War of 1812 was a 32-month military conflict between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its Indian allies. The outcome resolved many issues which remained from the American War of Independence, but involved no boundary changes.

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson becomes President

  • Battle of the Alamo

  • Mexican Amarican War

  • California Gold Rush

  • Colorado Gold rush

  • Abraham Licon becomes president

  • Civil war (starts)

  • Fort Collins founded

  • Slavery Abolished

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • African American Men get the right to vote

  • Telephone Invented

  • Colorado becomes a state

  • Light Bulb Invented

  • Spanish American War

  • Wright Brothers (Frist Flight)

  • San Francisco Earthquake

  • Model T Invented

  • Titanic sinks

  • CLP built

  • World War 1

  • Panama Canal Opened

  • Women get Right to Vote

  • Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic

  • Stock Market Crash

  • Great Depression

  • Hoover Dam

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes president

  • World War 2 (starts)

  • Pearl Harbor attacked

  • D-Day

  • Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

  • United Nations Created

  • Firs Mcdonalds opened

  • Korean War (starts)

  • Disneyland

  • Vietnam War (Starts)

  • Hawaii Becomes a State

  • John F. Kennedy Becomes President

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Mr Denise born

  • The Beatles Arrive in the United States

  • Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

  • Man on the Moon

  • Berlin Wall (torn down)

  • Persian Gulf War

  • Columbine High School Shooting

  • George Washington Becomes President

    George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–1993). A Republican, he had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. He is the oldest former President and Vice President, and the last former President who is a veteran of World War II. Bush is often referred to as "George H. W. Bush", "Bush 41", "Bush the El

  • World Trade Centers (attacked)

  • Facebook started

  • Hurricane Katrina

  • Barack Obama becomes president

  • Afghanistan & Iraq