US History A Timeline By kira.ak12 1492 The Discovery of America by Columbus 1607 The Settlement of Jamestown 1754 The French and Indian War Dec 16, 1773 The Boston Tea Party 1775 The Battle of Lexington and Concord 1776 The Declaration of Independence 1781 The Battle of Yorktown 1787 The Constitutional Convention 1793 The invention of the cotton gin 1798 The Alien and Sedition Acts 1803 The Louisiana Purchase 1805 The invention of the electric light 1812 The War of 1812 1819 The Missouri Compromise 1828 Andrew Jackson’s Election 1830 The invention of the telegraph 1831 The Trail of Tears 1837 The Panic of 1837 1846 The Mexican-American War 1849 The invention of the telephone 1850 The Compromise of 1850 1861 The Firing on Fort Sumter 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation 1864 13th Amendment 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination 1868 14th Amendment 1868 Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment 1870 15th Amendment 1882 The Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1892 The Pullman and Homestead Strikes 1898 The Spanish-American War 1899 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president 1903 The invention of the airplane
