Important Events in American History!

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Important Events in American History!

• By Mallory Simpson

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The Colonies

• 1607 The first colony founded was Virginia
• 1653 The eight colony founded was North Carolina
  
• 1732 The thirteenth colony founded was Georgia

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The 1400s

• 1400 Karl Benz invented automobiles
• 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue and
  discovered America

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The 1500s

• 1590 Zacharias Janssen invented the compound
  microscope

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The 1600s

• 1608 Hans Lippershey invented the telescope
• 1619 Slavery introduced to the colony of
  Virginia
• 1620 The Mayflower Compact signed
• 1620 Cornelies Drebbel invented the submarine
• 1643 Evangelista Torricellia invented the
  barometer
• 1650 Otto Guericke invented the air pump
• 1670 The first candy cane was made

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The 1700s

• 1752 Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity
  during his kite experiment
  
• 1754 The French and Indian war begin
• 1763 The end of the French and Indian war
• 1765 The stamp act was passed by Parliament
• 1770 The Boston massacre
• 1773 The Boston tea party
• 1776 Washington Crossed Delaware
• 1776 The Declaration of Independence was made
  and 56 people singed it. This gave freedom to
  the 13 colonies.
• 1787 Delaware became the first state
• 1789 George Washington was elected the
  first U.S. President

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The 1800s

• 1801 Tomas Jefferson was elected for our 3rd
  president
• 1803 The Louisiana purchase
• 1804 Lewis and Clark discovered the west
• 1827 W.A. Bart invents the type writer
• 1848 The California gold rush started
• 1859 The California gold rush ended
• 1861 The beginning of the civil war
• 1861 Pierre Michoux invented the bicycle
• 1865 The end of the civil war
• 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the
  telephone
• 1896 Hennery Ford invented the Ford

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The 1900s

• 1903 Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the
  airplane
• 1919 The start of the prohibition era
• 1920 Women won the right to vote
• 1933 Edwin Armstrong invented the FM radio
• 1933 The end of the prohibition era
• 1939 Igor I. Sikorsky invented the single rotor
  helicopter
• 1939 World War II started
• 1941 Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
• 1944 The ball-point pen was invented
• 1945 World War II ended
• 1946 J.P. Eckert invented the computer

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1900s continued

• 1947 Percy Spencer invented the microwave oven
• 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
  
• 1969 Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk
  on the moon
• 1971 The first computer floppy disk was
  invented
• 1983 The cell phone was invented
• 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on take
  off
• 1990 Operation Desert storm started, ended 1991
• 1994 Internet began

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The 2000s

• 2001 9/11 terrorists attacked US
• 2001 Enron declared bankruptcy
• 2002 United Airlines filed bankruptcy
• 2003 Space shuttle Columbia exploded on reentry
• 2003 The Iraq War started
• 2005 Hurricane Katrina destroyed the Gulf coast
• 2006 Saddam Hussein was executed
• 2008 President Obama became our first black
  president
• 2009 General Motors declared bankruptcy

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