US History A Timeline

  • 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

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    The French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Signing of The Declaration of Independence

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    The Battle of Yorktown

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    The Constitutional Convention

  • The patenting of Eli Whitney's 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

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    The Trail of Tears

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    The Panic of 1837

  • The Patenting of the Telegraph

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    The Mexican-American War

  • he Compromise of 1850

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    The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • 13th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 14th Amendment

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 15th Amendment

  • The first Telephone is patented

  • Invention of the Electric Light

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    The Homestead Strike

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    The Pullman Strike

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    The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the Airplane