Ellie Ping US History A Timeline By ElP942 1492 Discovery of America by Columbus 1607 The Settlement of Jamestown 1754 The French and Indian War Begins 1773 The Boston Tea Party 1775 The Battle of Lexington and Concord 1776 The Declaration of Independence Signed 1781 The Battle of Yorktown Begins 1787 The Constitutional Convention 1793 Cotton Gin Patent Granted 1798 The Alien and Sedition Acts 1801 The Louisiana Purchase 1812 The War of 1812 1820 The Missouri Compromise 1828 Andrew Jackson wins the Presidential Election 1837 The Panic of 1837 1838 The Trail of Tears 1844 The Invention of The Telegraph 1846 The Mexican-American War 1850 The Compromise of 1850 1861 The Firing on Fort Sumter 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation 1863 The Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1865 The Surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination 1865 The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments For clarification, the 13th came out in 1865, the 14th came out in 1868, and the 15th came out in 1870. 1868 Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment 1876 The Invention of the Telephone 1879 The Invention of the Light Bulb 1892 The Pullman and Homestead Strikes 1898 The Spanish-American War 1901 Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President 1903 The Invention of the Airplane
