The United States of America
1607: Jamestown, First permanent English settlement in Virginia
1620: Pilgrims established a colony in Massachusetts
The mid 1700s: 13 British colonies stretched along the Atlantic coast
1775-1783: American Revolution
1776: Founded
1783: Treaty of Paris
1787: Constitution
1791: Bill of Rights
1803: Westward Expansion
1861-1865: Civil War
1863: Emancipation Proclamation
1865-1877: Reconstruction Era
1917-1918: World War I
1929-1939: Great Depression
1941-1945: World War II
1947-1991: Cold War
1950s-1960s: Civil Rights Movement