US History A Timeline

By Mtclarkson
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus Discovers America

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

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    The French and Indian War

    the first one, sort of

  • The Boston Tea Party

    spill the tea

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

    yippee we won

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • Cotton Gin Invented

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    The famous Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana
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    War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Trail of Tears

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    The Panic of 1837

  • Telegraph Invented

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    The Mexican-American War

    another war

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    Lincoln Frees the Slaves in Southern States

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    shame

  • The 14th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson Impeached

  • The 15th Amendment

  • Telephone Invented

    thanks, Alexander Graham Bell

  • Incandescent Electric Light Invented

    thanks, Thomas Edison

  • Pullman and Homestead Strikes

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    The Spanish-American War

    yet another war

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

  • Airplane Invented

    thanks, Wilbur and Orville Wright