US History a Timeline By kyliea 1492 Discovery of America Period: 1492 to 1931 Events in History 1607 Settlement of Jamestown 1754 French and Indian War 1773 Boston Tea Party 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord 1776 Declaration of Independence signed 1781 Battle of Yorktown 1787 Constitutional Convention 1793 Cotton Gin 1798 Alien and Sedition Act 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1812 War of 1812 1820 Missouri Compromise 1829 Andrew Jackson 1837 Telegraph 1837 The panic of 1837 1838 Trail of tears 1846 Mexican American War 1850 Compromise of 1850 1861 Firing of Fort Sumter 1861 13, 14, and 15 amendments/ Civil War 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1865 Surrender at Appomattox 1865 Abraham Lincon's Death 1868 Andrew Johnson's impeachment 1876 Telephone Invented 1879 Organized the standard Oil Trust 1892 Pullmen and Homestead Strike 1898 Spanish American War 1901 Theodore Roosevelt became President 1903 Plane Invented 1931 Electric Light