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US History A Timeline

By sage.123
  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • 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

  • 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

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

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    The Trail of Tears

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    The Panic of 1837

  • The Invention of the Telegraph

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    The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

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    13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

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    The Invention of the Electric Light, Telephone, and Airplane

    Alexander Graham Bell created the telephone on March 7, 1876.
    Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1879.
    The Wright brothers made the first successful aircraft on December 17, 1903.

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

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    The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

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    The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

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