Major Events in American History

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    Major Events in American History

  • The signing of the Decleration of Independence

  • Articals of confederation

  • British Parliment votes against further war in America

  • End of Revolutinary War

  • George Washington becomes President

  • Bill of Rights is Ratified

  • John Adams becomes president

  • Library of Congress is founded

  • Thomas Jeferson becomes President

  • Louisiana Purchase Treaty

  • Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explore the Louisiana Territory

  • Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves

  • James Madison becomes President

  • War of 1812 begins

  • James Monroe becomes President

  • John Quincy Adams becomes President

  • Andrew Jackson becomes President

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Texas War for Independence begins

  • The Trail of Tears

  • William Henry Harrison becomes President

  • John Tyler becomes President

  • James Knox Polk becomes President

  • Mexican-American War

  • Zachary Taylor becomes President

  • Millard Fillmore becomes President

  • Franklin Pierce becomes President

  • James Buchanan becomes President

  • Abraham Lincoln becomes President

  • Civil War Begins

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Abraham Lincoln assassinated

  • Andrew Johnson Becomes President

  • Ulysses Simpson Grant becomes president

  • Rutherford Birchard Hayes becomes president

  • James Abram Garfield becomes President

  • Chester Alan Arthur becomes President

  • Grover Cleveland becomes President

  • Benjamin Harrison becomes President

  • Grover Cleveland becomes President

  • William McKinley

  • Spanish-American War