us history a 2021

By lil short
  • Period: Oct 10, 1492 to

    american history

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  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus makes landfall with the Americas

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concorde

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of the cotton gin

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Electric Light

    Invented by Humphry Davy

  • Louisiana Purchase

    This made up a large part of the U.S as we know it today

  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s election

  • Trail of Tears

  • Panic of 1837

  • First telegraph sent

  • Mexican-American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment

  • The Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

    The Peterson House, Washington DC

  • 14th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 15th Amendment

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Telephone

    Invented by Alexander Graham Bell

  • Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Aircraft

    Invented by Wilbur and Orville Wright

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