US History A Timeline 1 By BanditQueen Akila 1492 Discovery of America by Columbus 1607 The Settlement of Jamestown 1613 The Firing on Fort Sumter 1754 The French and Indian War 1773 The Boston Tea Party 1773 The Battle of Lexington and Concord 1773 The Declaration of Independence 1777 The Battle of Yorktown 1783 The Constitutional Convention 1793 The invention of the cotton gin 1798 The Alien and Sedition Acts 1803 The Louisiana Purchase 1812 The War of 1812 1815 The Missouri Compromise 1823 Andrew Jackson’s Election 1827 The Trail of Tears 1837 The Panic of 1837 1838 The Mexican-American War 1843 The Compromise of 1850 1844 The invention of the telegraph 1862 The Emancipation Proclamation 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination 1868 Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment 1870 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments 1894 The Pullman and Homestead Strikes 1898 The Spanish-American War 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president 1903 The Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1903 The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane