US History A TImeline By Crewe 1492 Discovery Of America By Columbus 1607 The Settlement of Jamestown Period: 1754 to 1763 French and Indian War 1773 Boston Tea Party 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord 1776 Declaration of Independence 1781 Battle of Yorktown 1787 Constitutional Convention 1793 The invention of the cotton gin 1798 The Alien and Sedition Acts 1803 Louisiana Purchase Period: 1812 to 1815 War of 1812 1820 Missouri Compromise 1828 Andrew Jackson's Election 1837 The Panic of 1837 Period: 1838 to 1839 The Trail of Tears Period: 1846 to 1848 The Mexican-American War 1850 The Compromise of 1850 1861 The Firing on Fort Sumter 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Period: 1865 to 1870 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments 1868 Andrew Johnson's Impeachment 1870 The Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1884 The invention of the telegraph 1894 The Pullman and Homestead Strikes 1898 The Spanish-American War 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president Period: 1990 to 2002 The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane