US History A Timeline

By Picklebrains
  • 1492

    Discovery of North America by Columbus

  • Settlement of Jamestown

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    French & Indian War

    Nicknamed: "Seven years' war"

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington & Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

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    Battle of Yorktown

  • The Consitutional Convention

  • Invention of Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney

  • Alien & Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

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    War of 1812

    Treaty of Ghent

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

    Served 2 terms, 1829 - 1837

  • Invention of the Telegraph

    William Fothergill Cooke Charles Wheatstone

  • The Panic of 1837

    Economic Depression in the U.S.
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    Trail of Tears

    1831
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    Mexican-American War

    Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

  • Compromise of 1850

    5 laws passed about the issue on slavery

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th Amendment

    Outlawed slavery throughout U.S.

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • 14th Amendment

    Citizenship for all born in U.S.

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • 15th Amendment

    Prohibited denying the right to vote based on race or color of man

  • Invention of the Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell, patented March 7, 1876

  • Invention of Electric Light

    Thomas Edison, patented in 1879 - 1880

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

    John D. Rockefeller

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

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    Spanish American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • Invention of the Airplane

    Wright Brothers. Kitty Hank, North Carolina