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United States Timeline (Page 1) (Page 2) here! (1541) Explorer Juan Ponce de León of Spain, landed on the coast of Florida (1565) The Spanish settled Saint Augustine, Florida, the first permanent European colony in North America (1616) The Native American population was devastated by a smallpox epidemic (1619) The first representative assembly met in Virginia; the first slaves were brought to Jamestown from Africa (1620) Pilgrims from England arrived and established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts; the Mayflower Compact was signed; the first public library was established in Virginia (1652) Rhode Island enacted the first law declaring slavery illegal (1664) The English seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and renamed it New York (1712) Carolina colony was divided into North and South Carolina (1754) The French and Indian War began (1760) A huge fire destroyed much of Boston (1763) The Seven Years war ended. Britain gained control of the territory east of the Mississippi River from France (1770) The Boston Massacre occurred (1773) In protest against the British tea tax, a group of colonists, disguised as Indians, boarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and dumped more than 300 crates of tea overboard (1774) The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia with 56 delegates representing every colony except Georgia (1775) The American Revolution War began (1776) The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress (1777) The first official flag of the United States was approved by the Continental Congress; the Articles of Confederation were adopted (1783) Great Britain acknowledged American independence with the Treaty of Paris, ending the war (1785) The Continental Congress relocated to New York City, the temporary capital of the United States (1787) The Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia to draft the Constitution (1788) The Constitution of the United States was ratified; New York City was chosen by the Congress to be the temporary capital (1789) George Washington was unanimously elected president of the United States; the U.S. Army was established by Congress; a day of Thanksgiving was established by a congressional resolution (1790) The first ten amendments to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, were ratified (1793) The cotton gin was invented (1797) John Adams was inaugurated as the second president of the United States (1800) Washington, D.C. became the official United States capital (1803) France sold its Louisiana territories to the United States (1804) Lewis and Clark left St. Louis on an expedition to find a route to the Pacific Ocean (1812) The United States declared war on Britain over interference with maritime shipping and expansion to the west (The War of 1812) (1814) The British captured Washington, D. C. and set fire to the White House and Capital; Frances Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner; the war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent (1819) The U.S. acquired Florida from Spain (1820) The Missouri Compromise. Maine was admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state (1825) The Erie Canal opened (1836) Texas declared its independence from Mexico; the Battle of the Alamo took place with all Texan defenders killed (1845) U.S. annexed Texas (1846) U. S. acquired Oregon Territory; U. S. declared war on Mexico in order to gain California and other territories in the southwest (1848) The Mexican War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The U. S. purchased California, Nevada, Utah, most of New Mexico and Arizona, parts of Colorado and Wyoming; gold was discovered in California (1854) The abolitionists (opponents of slavery) established the Republican Party (1860) Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate, was elected president; South Carolina seceded from the Union (1861) Eleven pro-slavery southern states seceded from the Union; Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy; the Civil War began (1863) The Emancipation Proclamation was issued, which freed the slaves in the Confederate states; President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address (1865) The Civil War ended with General Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant; President Lincoln was assassinated; the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, prohibiting slavery (1867) The U. S. purchased Alaska from Russia (1871) The Chicago fire killed 300 people and left 90,000 homeless (1876) Lt. Col. George Custer's regiment was eliminated by Sioux Indians at the Little Big Horn River (1886) The Statue of Liberty was dedicated (1898) The U. S. declared War on Spain; the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the war; Spain gave Puerto Rico and Guam to the U. S.; the U. S. purchased the Philippines; U. S. annexed Hawaii (1900) Galveston, Texas was hit by a hurricane (the Great Storm) killing over 6,000 people (1903) U. S. acquired the Panama Canal Zone; the Wright brothers made their first flight (1906) Earthquake in San Francisco left 500 missing or dead and destroyed four square miles of the city (1914) World War I began; the Panama Canal opened (1917) U. S. declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary (1918) World War I ended ................U.S. TIMELINE (Page 2) here!

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