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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus' 1st voyage
Columbus sets sail to new the world -
The year Jamestown was settled
When they established Jamestown. -
End of the French and Indian war
When the treaty of Paris was signed -
Boston massacre
A street fight between the American colonists and the British solders -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Was the first military engagements of the Revolutionary war -
Declaration of Independence
Congress approved the final text of the declaration -
The battle of Yorktown
George Washington decided to attack the British at Yorktown. -
The signing of the constitution
It lays out the frame of the nation's federal government -
President Washington's inauguration
When George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States -
The invention of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney invented a machine that made removing seeds from cotton fiber faster and easier -
Buying of the Louisiana Purchase
The US purchased 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million -
Lewis and Clark expedition begins
They set out to find unknown territory and a waterway from the US to the Pacific Ocean -
The battle of Fort McHenry
When it successfully defended Baltimore harbor from an attack by the British -
The battle of the Alamo
A battle fighting for Texan independence from Mexico -
the 13th amendment
Abolished slavery in the US -
President Lincoln's assassination
John Booth shot president Lincoln at Fords theatre