U.S. History Timeline

By elizabailor
  • 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The settlement of Jamestown

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    The French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

    Patented in1794
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    The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

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    Andrew Jackson’s Election

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    The Trail of Tears

  • The invention of the telegraph

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    The Panic of 1837

    Peaked on May 10, 1837
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    The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

    Official start of the Civil War

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • 14th Amendment

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    Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 15th Amendment

  • The invention of the telephone

  • The invention of the electric light bulb

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

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    The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

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    The Spanish-American War

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    Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane

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