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Jamestown was the first English colony to stablish in Virginia at 1607
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On the 1620 pilgrims arrive aboard the mayflower , which has become an iconic story because of the hard times that those pilgrims passed until they arrived.
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The American Revolutionary War started in on 1775 and finished in 1783 , it was a war against the British .
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The 4th of July of 19776 the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia.
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In 1787 the US Constitution was drafted also in Philadelphia.
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The first President of the United States was George Washington. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
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The size of the country started increasing with the purchase of new land like it did in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase.
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In 1838 Native Americans were forced to move to the nowadays Oklahoma , which is known as the “Trail of Tears”
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The Oregon trail which was build from 1811 to 1840 was used by the pioneers to travel from 1842 to 1869 from east to west
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In the 1850 the Underground Railroad , some secret routes and safe houses were used by slaves to go to the free states and Canada .
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The 16th US president was Abraham Lincoln led The Civil War (1861-1865), which was a war between the states over slavery.
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In 1870 the Fifteenth Amendment gave the black people the right to vote for the first time.
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Three years later since the World War 1 began and the US entered it.
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In 1919 the Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote for the first time.
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On the 7th of December in 1941 the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor was struck by the Japanese Navy which caused the entry of US to the World War 2.
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After that in 1945 the Cold War between US (Western Bloc) and Soviet Union (Eastern Bloc) began, a state of political and military tension after the World War 2.
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In 1961 John F.Kennedy started his presidential life as the 35th US president but he was assassinated in November 1963.
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The same year Martin Luther King , who fought for the rights of the black people , made a speech called “I Have a dream”(1963) which became very famous until nowadays.
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Martin Luther King also won the Nobel prize of Peace in 1964, he was assassinated four years later (1968)
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The first human to walk on the moon was the American Neil Armstrong. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”
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One of the most shocking terrorist attacks took place in New York .Two airplanes collapsed into the Twin Towers (World Trade Center) killing thousands of citizens.
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Obama became the first black president of the USA.
