Matching Pairs THE US HISTORY - SIGNIFICANT EVENTSOnline version Match the time with the event by vuongco vodao 1 1777 2 1791 3 1939-1945 4 1776 5 1757-1763 6 1800s 7 1787 8 1860 9 1607 10 1861 - 1865 11 1789 12 1773 13 1783 14 1930s 15 1620 16 1929 17 10th century 18 19th century 19 1492 20 1775 the Industrial Age, starting with the first U.S. cotton mill in Beverly, Massachusetts the occurence of Great Depression, starting with the collapse of the stock market the expansion westward and the Indian Removal Act to relocate tribes in Oklahoma the establishment of the first British colony in North America - Jamestown - in Virginia George Washington becoming the 1st president of the United States the Pilgrim's establishment of Plymouth colony in present-day Massachussetts Viking settlement in Newfoundland the approval of the Bill of Rights including 1st ten amendments to the Constitution the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus - an Italian explorer despite his navigational mistake Tea Acts, fueling the colonial protest with a banner of "No Taxation without Representation" (Boston Tea Party) World War 2 between Axis powers and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, with a victory for the Allies the Declaration of Independence approved by the leaders of the thirteen colonies (4th July) the war between northern and southern states due to tensions over slavery, ending with the surrender of the Confederate (Southern states) the Seven-year war (known as the French and Indian War) for territorial expansion, trading, and political power, with victory for the British Empire Great Britain's formal recognition of the independence of the United States in the Treaty of Paris (3rd September) the United States' first constitution, revised from the Articles of Confederation, written in Philadelphia and ratified a year later American Revolutionary War between North American colonies with the support of other European countries and the British colonial government 11 states seceding from the United States in 1860 following the election of President Abraham Lincoln the Articles of Confederation, the United States' first constitution Isolationism: the advocate of non-involvement in European and Asian conflicts