US History A

  • Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus Discovered America

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

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    French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence was Ratified.

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    The Battle of Yorktown

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    The Constitutional Convention

  • The Invention of the Cotton Gin

    It was patented in 1794
  • The Alien Act

  • The Sedition Act

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    The treaty was dated April 30 and it was signed on May 2. The US Senate ratified the purchase in October. France didn't transfer the authority until December of 1803.
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    The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

    US Congress passed it on the 3rd, but President James Monroe signed it on the 6th.
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    Andrew Jackson’s Election

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    The Invention of the Telegraph

    It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s
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    The Trail of Tears

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    The Panic of 1837

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    The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

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    The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • 13th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amendment

  • The Invention of the Telephone

  • The Invention of the Electric Light

    Edison filed his first patent application for the improvement of electric lights on this day.
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    The Homestead Strike

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    The Pullman Strike

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    The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

  • The Invention of the Airplane