U.S.

By brynnli.067
  • Oct 24, 1497

    Italian born John Cabot claims North America for England

  • Period: Oct 24, 1497 to

    U.S.

  • Oct 24, 1534

    Jaques Cartier of France explores the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River

  • Captain John Smith founds the English colony of Jamestown

  • Henry Hudson explores Northeastern North America including the Hudson River

  • Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian war

  • Colonists declare their independence fron England with the Declaration of Independence

  • Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed with France

  • War of 1812 between United States and Great Britian

  • Oregon treaty signed and the boundary between Canada and the United States is established at the 49th parallel (line of latiyude)

  • Civil war begins

  • Civil war ends

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Gold is disovered in the Yukon's Klondike

  • United States enters WWI fighting with the British and French

  • Great depression begins in the U.S.

  • Japan attacks U.S. at Pearl Harbor, U.S. enters WWII with the Allies

  • U.S. drops attack bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon

  • United States sign a Free Trade Agreement with Canada

  • Persian Gulf War

  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is signed between Canada, the United States and Mexico

  • Occupation of Iraq by the United States