United States Historic Events

By kyla.432
  • Oct 24, 1497

    Italian born John Cabot claims North America for England

  • Period: Oct 24, 1497 to

    U.S Historic Events

  • Oct 24, 1534

    Jacques Cartier of France explores the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence river

  • Captain John Smith founds the English colony of Jamestown

  • Henry Hubson exolores Northeastern North America including the Hubson River

  • Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War

  • Colonists declare their indeoendence from England with the Declaration of Independence

  • Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed with France

  • War of 1812 between United States and Great Britain

  • Oregon Treaty signed and the boundary between Canada and the United States id established at the 49th parallel (line of latitude)

  • The Civil War begins

  • The Civil War ends

  • Alaska is purchased from Russia

  • Gold is discovered in the Yukon's Klondike

  • United States enters WWI fighting with the British and the French

  • Great Deoression begind on the U.S

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

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

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

  • United States sign a Free Trede Agreement with Canada

  • Persian Gulf War

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

  • Occupation of Iraq by the United States