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American History Timeline

By Wordweaver13
  • Dec 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • Period: to

    The French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • Congress Passes the Alien Act

  • Congress Passes the Sedition Act

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • Period: to

    The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • Period: to

    The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • 13th Amendment

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell makes first successful telephone call

  • Electric light

    The first successful test of a carbon filament light bulb was on October 21, 1879 by Edison

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Airplane

    Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft.

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