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US History A Timeline - Alyssa Driscoll

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  • Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus Discovers America

  • Settling of Jamestown

    The settlers first landed in Virginia on May 13, 1607

  • French and Indian War begins

  • French and Indian War ends

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

    Ratified July 4, 1776

  • Battle of Yorktown begins

  • Battle of Yorktown ends

  • Constitutional Convention

    May 25 - September 17, 1787

  • Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

    Patent in U.S. Eli Whitney

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Invention of the telegraph by Samuel morse

  • Panic of 1837

  • Trail of Tears

  • Mexican-American War

    From 1846-1848

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • 13th Amendment

  • President Andrew Johnson Impeached

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amedment

    Ratified in 1870, proposed in 1869

  • Alexander Graham Bell obtains a patent for the telephone

  • Invention of the commerciallized electric lightbulb by Thomas Alvin Edison

  • Standard Oil Trust Organized

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • Wright Brothers fly the first airplane