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Aug 3, 1492
The Discovery of America by Columbus
The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. Once he found America, he thought it was the east indies. He originally wanted a shorter way to get to India, but began genocide. -
The Settlement of Jamestown
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. William Kelso writes that Jamestown "is where the British Empire began". -
The French and Indian War
he French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. -
The Declaration of Independence
A declaration of independence or declaration of statehood is an assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. -
Battle Of Yorktown
a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis -
The Constitutional Convention
the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. -
The invention of the cotton gin
a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber. -
The Alien and Sedition Acts
Consisted of four laws passed by the Federalist-controlled Congress as America prepared for war with France. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France -
The War of 1812
a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom and their respective allies. -
The Missouri Compromise
an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri -
Andrew Jackson’s Election
the presidential election of Andrew Jackson -
The Panic of 1837
a financial crisis in the United States -
The Trail of Tears
Forced removal of the Native Americans from their homelands -
The Invention of The Telegraph
the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
The Mexican-American War
a conflict between The U.S. and the United Mexican States -
The Compromise of 1850
An attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. -
The Firing on Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston -
The Emancipation Proclamation
A presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. -
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
the 16th President of the United States was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 in favor of a resolution to impeach the President for high crimes and misdemeanors. -
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, also known as the Civil War Amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves. -
The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and the Wright Brothers invented the airplane. -
The Pullman and Homestead Strikes
The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers -
The Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
After McKinley's assassination in September 1901, Roosevelt became president at age 42, and remains the youngest president. -
The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
The trust was designed to allow Rockefeller and other Standard Oil stockholders to get around state laws prohibiting one company from owning stock in another.