US history A timeline

By Zoeshaw
  • Aug 3, 1492

    America was found by Christopher Columbus

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    US history A time line

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

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    The French and Indian War

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Boston tea party

  • The Declaration of Independence

    This was the day the day the declaration of Independence was adopted and signed
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    The battle of Yorktown

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    The Constitutional Convention

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The invention of the electric light

    Humphry Davy Invented the light bulb then later on New Years eve of 1879 Thomas Edison Demonstrated the first practical incandescent bulb
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    The war of 1812

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    The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Missouri Compromise

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    Andrew Jackson’s Election

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    The Panic of 1831

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    The trail of tears

  • The invention of the telegraph

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    The Mexican-American war

  • The compromise of 1850

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

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    The firing of Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The 13th amendment

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

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    Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • The 14th amendment

    Technically it was passed by the Senate on June 8, 1866 but on July 9th 1868 it was to grant citizenship to people not born in America and former slaves

  • The 15th amendment

    it was passed at congresses February 26th 1869 and ratified February 3rd 1870

  • when was the telephone invented

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    The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

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    The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • when was the airplane invented

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