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Columbus sets sail to new the world
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When they established Jamestown.
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When the treaty of Paris was signed
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A street fight between the American colonists and the British solders
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Was the first military engagements of the Revolutionary war
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Congress approved the final text of the declaration
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George Washington decided to attack the British at Yorktown.
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It lays out the frame of the nation's federal government
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When George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States
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Eli Whitney invented a machine that made removing seeds from cotton fiber faster and easier
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The US purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million
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They set out to find unknown territory and a waterway from the US to the Pacific Ocean
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When it successfully defended Baltimore harbor from an attack by the British
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A battle fighting for Texan independence from Mexico
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Abolished slavery in the US
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John Booth shot president Lincoln at Fords theatre