1607 - Jamestown, England's First Successful American Colony 1713 - Captain Andrew Robinson Designs and Constructs a Schooner 1732 - America Initiates Road Infrastructure 1750 - German Entrepreneurs Invent the Conestoga Wagon and Flatboat 1750 - America Establishes Industrial Base, Paving the Way to Independence 1777 - Mary Katherine Goddard Publishes the Declaration of Independence 1789 - Alexander Hamilton Shapes America's Modern Industrial Economy