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The start of the first time line.
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John Smith founds the Jamestown Colony in the modern day Virginia
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Galileo sees the moons of Jupiter through a telescope
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Slavery begins when twenty Africans are brought to Jamestown for sale as indentured servants
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William Bradford founds the Plymouth Colony in modern-day Massachusetts
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The first public school, Boston Latin, is established
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Ben Franklin founds the first public library in Philadelphia
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The Treaty of Paris cedes Canada to Great Britain
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The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
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The Revolutionary War begins
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The U.S Constitution is adopted
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George Washington becomes the first president
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The Bill of Rights becomes law
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The start of timeline #2
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Alaska is purchased from Russia for 7.2 million
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Yellowstone is established as the world's first national park
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The Anglo-Zulu War begins in South Africa
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German inventor Karl Benz constructs the first gasoline powered automobile
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Samuel Gompers begins the American Federation of Labor for skilled workers only
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A bomb is thrown during a labor union rally in Chicago, resulting in the Haymarket Riot
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Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants into the United States
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New Zealand becomes the first country to grant women voting rights
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The Pullman Strike occurs in Illinois
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The Spanish- American War begins with the sinking of the U.S.S Maine
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Work begins on the Panama Canal
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W.E.B. Du Bois helps establish the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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The start of timeline #3
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Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to play in the MLB in the twentieth century
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Harry Truman sends troops to Vietnam to assist the French in fighting Communists
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The US successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb on the island of Enewetak
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed for selling nuclear arms secrets to the Soviet Union
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The US rules in Brown v. Board of Education that school segregation is illegal
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr helps coordinate the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott
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President Eisenhower sends troops to desegregate public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas
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Congress establishes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Alaska and Hawaii are admitted as states
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Americans view the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon
