US History A Timeline

By RottenToTheCore
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus finds America

    The day Columbus found America.

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

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    The French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

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    The Battle of Yorktown

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    The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

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    The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

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    Andrew Jackson’s Election

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    The invention of the telegraph

    There is no exact date to when it was invented, but I found that it was developed in the 1830's and 1840's and the first telegraph was sent in 1844 and by 1866 there was a telegraph line that had been laid across the Atlantic Ocean from the U.S. to Europe.
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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

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    The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

    The 13th amendment was made in 1865, followed by the 14th in 1868, and then finally the 15th in 1870.

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • The invention of the telephone

  • The invention of the electric light

  • The Homestead Strike

  • The Pullman Railroad Strike

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    The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane