1st Timeline

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  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

    May 5th 1754 - Feb 10 1763

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

    September 28–October 19, 1781

  • The Constitutional Convention

    May 14 to September 17, 1787,

  • The invention of the cotton gin

    October 28, 1793

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

    July 6, 1798

  • The Missouri Compromise

    March 2, 1820

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    April 30, 1803

  • The War of 1812

    June 18, 1812–February 17, 1815

  • The Mexican-American War

    May 13, 1846

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

    October 31 to Tuesday, December 2, 1828.

  • The Compromise of 1850

    January, 29, 1850

  • The Trail of Tears

    1837 to 1839

  • The Panic of 1837

    May 10, 1837

  • The invention of the telegraph

    May 24, 1844

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

    February 24, 1868

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

    April 14, 1865

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

    April 12, 1861

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    January 1, 1863

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    April 2, 1865

  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

    January 31, 1865

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

    January 10, 1870

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

    May 11,1894

  • The Spanish-American War

    April 25, 1898

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

    September 14, 1901

  • The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane

    December 17, 1903