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Columbus lands in the Bahamas, believing that he had actually landed in East Asia, marking his discovery of the Americas.
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Jamestown, being named after King James I, is founded by English colonists in North America.
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The war between the North American Colonies and the French. Both sides had Native American tribes aiding them.
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The American Colonists' protest against the British Empire for 'taxation without representation'. Americans dump over 300 crates of tea into the harbor.
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The historic battle that indicates the beginning of the War of Independence for America.
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The Declaration of Independence is written on July 4th and signed on August 2nd of 1776.
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The final battle of the American Revolution.
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The meeting of how America was to be governed.
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Eli Whitney, with the help of a few of his slaves and a woman named Catharine Greene, invented the cotton gin.
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A set of laws were passed giving the government the power to deport foreigners and also making it harder for immigrants to vote.
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The United States buys 828,000 square miles from France, where many of the midwestern states now lie.
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The war between America and the United Kingdom.
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The separation of the Northern from the Southern States concerning slavery.
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The election of Andrew Jackson marks the first election won through more voters choosing one candidate more than the other.
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This was when the American Government forced around 60,000 Native Americans from their homes and moved them to lands not their own.
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When the banks in New York ran out of gold and silver, some massive problems arose within the U.S.
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Samuel Morse Invents the telegraph.
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This was occurred when the Mexicans and Americans fought over the state of Texas.
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The Compromise of 1850 was a set of bills that tried to settle disagreements over slavery in the new territories won over from the Mexican-American War.
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This massive barrage of cannon-fire marked the start of the American Civil War.
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The issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in Union State, and help carve a path to free those in Confederate States.
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The passing of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments ensured equality for freed slaves.
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The surrender of General Robert E. Lee indicated the end of the American Civil War
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President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by Confederate loyalist John Wilkes Booth.
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Andrew Johnson was impeached mainly because of his infringing of the Tenure of Office Act.
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In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone. This invention eventually led to the smart phones of today.
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In 1879, Thomas Edison invented the first true lightbulb.
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The merging of several oil-related companies into Standard Oil Trust.
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The pay-cuts of many workers working for the Pullman Palace Car Company and Carnegie Steel Company led to massive strikes and some violent conflicts.
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This war was the result of America's retaliation to the Spanish sinking the USS Maine. It was concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in December 10, 1898.
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President 'Teddy' Roosevelt was known for serving for much longer than most other presidents.
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In 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the first airplane.
