history timeline

By sawyerlarsen
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    history timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

    from around 1754-1763

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Trail of Tears

    from 1838 to 1839

  • The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

    from 1865-1870

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

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

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

    from 04/25/1898 to 08/12/1898

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president