Final+timeline

Final Timeline

Please know the order of these events.

1492 Columbus lands in the Americas 1602 Jamestown established 1750 13 Original Colonies established 1776 Declaration of Independence 1776-1783 American Revolution 1788 U.S. Constitution is Ratified 1791 Bill of Rights is added to the Constitution 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1812 War with France 1820-1870 Industrial Revolution 1846-1848 Mexican American War 1848 The U.S. now stretches from "sea to shining sea" (Manifest Destiny) 1861 - 1865 U.S. Civil War 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1898 Spanish-American War 1914 - 1918 World War I 1929 - 1939 The Great Depression 1941 - 1945 U.S. fights World War II 1947 - 1991 The Cold War 1950's & 60's The Civil Rights Era 1951-53 Korean WAr 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 President Kennedy is assassinated 1965-1973 Vietnam War 1990 - 1991 Gulf War 1990's The Internet is widely adopted 9/11/2001 Over 3,000 Americans killed by radical Islamists