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Title: 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

4
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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