US History A timeline

By yermum
  • 1492

    Columbus discovers America

  • Settlement of Jamestown

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    The French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • The Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

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    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

  • Period: to

    The Trail of Tears

  • The panic of 1837

  • The invention of the telegraph

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    Mexican American War

  • Compromise of 1850

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    Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Organization of the Standard Oil Trust

  • The Emancipation Proclimation

  • 13th Amendment Passed

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    Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Lincoln's assassination

  • 14th Amendment Passed

  • Andrew Jackson's impeachment

  • 15th Amendment Passed

  • Telephone invented

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

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    Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • Airplane invented

  • Electric lightbulb invented