history timeline 01

By epum
  • 1492

    discovery of america

    and subsequent awful treatment to the people who already lived there.
    Columbus wasn't a hero.

  • Jamestown founded

    named after their king back home, jamestown was the first real settlement established by Chris and The Gang.

  • The invention of the cotton gin

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    The French and Indian War

    weirdly enough, there were no actual Indians involved for this one.

  • The Boston Tea Party

    a group called The Sons of Liberty threw some tea over the side of a ship.
    this was the fuse that lit the whole thing aflame.

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

    and thus the revolutionary war begins.
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    revolutionary war

    I cannot properly describe this and do justice to the awfulness of war. For that you must leave for the poets.

  • Declaration of Independance signed

  • battle of yorktown

  • constitutional convention

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

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    The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

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    The Trail of Tears

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments established

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

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    The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president