US History A

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  • 1492

    Columbus Discovers America

    Columbus left in August and finally saw land in about October.

  • Founding of Jamestown

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    French and Indian War

    It was also known as the Seven Years War and was between the England and the French colonies.

  • Boston Tea Party

    It was a protest by the Sons of Liberty to protest British tax on tea.

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    These were the first battles of the Revolutionary War and established that the colonies were willing to fight.

  • Declaration of Independence

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    Battle of Yorktown

    An American siege led to a British surrender.

  • The Constitutional Congress

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his new invention, the cotton gin, on this date.

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

    Signed by Pres. Adams during a naval war with France. Three were expired or repealed while one remains in effect.

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    President Jefferson purchased 828,000 square miles from France to add to America's territory.
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    War of 1812

    Another war between the United States and the United Kingdom and their respective allies.

  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Union was evenly divided between slave and free states. When Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state, Maine was admitted as a free state.

  • Andrew Jackson Election

    Andrew Jackson was elected and served two terms as the seventh president.

  • Panic of 1837

    Once again under Jackson, the country underwent a recession that basically lasted until the 1840s

  • Trail of Tears

    Under President Jackson's directions, the Cherokee people were forced from their lands and made to resettle in Oklahoma.

  • Demonstration of Telegraph

    Samuel Morse demonstrates an version of the telegraph.
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    Mexican American War

  • Compromise of 1850

    This is a package of five bills designed to quell rising tensions between free and slave states.

  • Firing of Fort Sumter

    Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, thus starting the Civil War.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Lincoln declared all slaves to be free on this date. As the Confederates saw themselves as a separate nation, they believed this didn't apply to them but it made a statement.

  • 13,14,15 Amendments

    These amendments were created after the war to try to create equality for recently freed slaves.

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

    This marked the end of the Civil War and Lee's surrender.

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

    Lincoln was shot watching a play by John Wilkes Booth.

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

    Johnson was impeached on for violating the Tenure of Office.

  • Invention of Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and it was first used successfully.

  • Thomas Edison Patented Lightbulb

  • Standard Oil Trust

    John D. Rockefeller created this trust to get around the law that one company could not hold stock in another.

  • Homestead and Pullman Strikes

    This was a strike between steel workers and the steel mill owners after a proposed wage cut.
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    Spanish-American War

    A war between America and Spain.

  • Invention of the Airplane

  • Theodore Roosevelt Elected