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Oct 24, 1497
Italian born John Cabot claims North America for England
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Period: Oct 24, 1497 to
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Oct 24, 1534
Jacues Cartier of France explores the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River
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Capitan John smith founds the english colony of Jamestown.
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Henry Hudson explores Northeastern North America including the Hudson River
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Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian war.
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Colonists depends their Independence from England with the Decloration of Independents
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Lousiana Purchase Treaty signed in france
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War of 1812 between United States and Great Britain
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Oregon treaty signed by the boundry between Canada and the United States is established at the 49th parallel (line of latitude)
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civil war begins
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civil war ends
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Alaska is purchased by russia
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Gold is discoverd in the Yukon's Klondike
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United states enters wwI fighting whith the british and french
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Great depression begin in the U.S
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Japan attacks U.S at peal harbor, U.S. enters WWII with the allies
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U.s drops atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki
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Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon
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United States sign a free trade agreement with canada
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Persian Gulf war
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North America (NAFTA) is sign between Canada, the United States, Mexico.
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Occupation of Iraq by the United States