Important Dates

First permanent English settlement, was founded in 1607.

• Civil War 
• The Constitution of the United States
• Jamestown 
• Louisiana Territory 

Signed on July 4, 1776.

• Declaration of Independence 
• The Constitution of the United States
• Louisiana Territory 
• Jamestown

written in 1787.

• Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution of the United States
• Mayflower Compact
• Treaty of Paris of 1763

President Thomas Jefferson purchased this land from France in 1803.

• Louisiana Territory 
• Treaty of Paris 
• Monroe Doctrine 
• Manifest Destiny 

was fought from 1861-1865.

• Civil War 
• Battle of Saratoga 
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Revolutionary War