history

  • Aug 3, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown May 14 1607

  • The French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of the cotton gin

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's election

  • Panic of 1837

  • Trail of Tears

  • Invention of Telegraph

  • Mexican American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Abraham Lincoln's assassination

  • Andrew Johnson's impeachment

  • Organization of the standard oil trust

  • 13. 14, and 15 amendments

  • Invention of the telephone

  • Invention of the electric light

  • Pullman and Homestead strikes

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes the President

  • Spanish American War

  • Invention of the airplane