U.S. History

By lilahb
  • 1492

    Columbus discovers America

  • Jamestown

  • French and Indian war: start

  • French and Indian war: end

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Cotton Gin--patented

  • Alien and Sedition acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • Declaration of Independence: signed

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson--election

  • Panic of 1837

    Everyone RUN!

  • Trail of Tears

  • Telegraph Invention

  • Mexican American war: start

  • Mexican American war: end

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Summer

    4/12/1861 through 4/13/1861.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

  • Abraham Lincoln Death

  • 13th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson Impeachment

  • 14th Ammendment

  • Standard Oil Trust--founded

  • 15th Amendment

  • Telephone is Patented

  • Invention of the Electric Light

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

    From 5/11/1894 to 7/20/1894

  • Spanish American war

    From 4/21/1898 to 8/13/1898

  • Theodore Roosevelt presidency: start

  • Invention of the first successful airplane

  • Theodore Roosevelt presidency: end

  • I'm born

    History in the making....

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