U.S. History A Timeline By SavannahOrton 1492 The Discovery of America by Columbus 1607 The Settlement of Jamestown Period: 1754 to 1763 The French and Indian War 1773 Boston Tea Party 1775 The Battle of Lexington and Concord 1776 The Declaration of Independence 1781 The Battle of Yorktown 1787 The Constitutional Convention 1793 The Invention of the Cotton Gin 1798 The Alien and Sedition Acts 1801 The Louisiana Purchase Period: 1812 to 1815 The War of 1812 1832 Andrew Jackson's Election 1837 The Panic of 1837 1838 The Trail of Tears 1844 Invention of the Telegraph Period: 1846 to 1848 The Mexican-American War 1850 The Compromise of 1850 1854 The Missouri Compromise 1861 The Firing on Fort Sumter 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincoln's Assassination 1865 The 13th Amendment Passed 1868 The 14th Amendment Passed 1868 Andrew Jackson's Impeachment 1870 The 15th Amendment 1876 Telephone Invented 1879 Electric Light Bulb Invented 1882 The Organization of the Standard Oil Trust 1894 The Pullman and Homestead Strikes 1898 The Spanish American War 1901 Theodore Roosevelt 1903 Airplane Invented
