The document summarizes major events in US history from prehistoric settlement through modern times. It covers the arrival of European colonists beginning in 1492, the American Revolution and establishment of the US, expansion of slavery and the Civil War, women's suffrage movement in the late 1800s, US involvement in World Wars 1 and 2 which established it as a world power, the civil rights movement led by MLK Jr., Neil Armstrong being the first man on the moon in 1959, the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, and US responses including the War on Terror, invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and current conflict with ISIS.

1. HISTORY OF the USA

2. Prehistory
1st
settlement unknown

3. Columbus
discovered
America in1492

4. Italian,
Spanish, Dutch
and French,
English
colonization.

5. American Revolution
The Declaration of Independence is signed on
July 4 in 1776, and the United States of America
is formed, America was free from England.
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6. First President
In 1789, George
Washington becomes
the first President.

7. Civil War
Southern whites----expansion of slaves
Northerners ---anti-slavery
Civil war (1960 – 1965), the country remained a
whole.

8. Women Struggle
The women's suffrage movement began
with the 1848 organized by Elizabeth
Cady Stanton.
By the end of the 19th century a few
western states had granted women
voting rights and gaining rights.

9. World War 1
1914 – 1918

10. Great depression 1929 - 1933

11. World War 2The worst war in
American
history.
The United States
became a world
power.
US was the only
nation with the
atom bomb (until
1949).

12. Martin Luther
King, Jr., who
had won the
Nobel Peace
Prize.
Civil rights in the late 1950s

13. Neil Arm Strong
1959

14. 9/11 Terror
Terrorists attacked the
twin towers of World
Trade Center.
3,000 people died.

15. In response on September 20, President George
W. Bush announced a "War on Terror”

16. Attack on Afghanistan
On October 7, 2001, the
United States and NATO
then invaded Asghanistan.

17. Invasion to Iraq 2003
-August 31, 2010

18. War against
ISIS, August
2014 - now