US History By Teefa99 Period: 1490 to 1905 Early US History Timespan 1492 Columbus Discovers America 1607 Settlement of Jamestown 1756 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 Invention of Cotton Gin 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1812 War of 1812 1820 Missouri Compromise 1828 Andrew Jackson Elected 1828 Invention of Telegraph 1830 Trail of Tears 1837 Panic of 1837 1846 Mexican-American War 1850 Compromise of 1850 1861 Firing on Fort Sumter 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1863 Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincoln's Assassanation 1865 Amendments 13, 14, and 15 1868 Andrew Johnson's Impeachment 1876 Invention of Telephone 1879 Invention of Electric Light 1892 Pullman and Homestead Strikes 1898 Spanish-American War 1901 Theodore Roosvelt Election 1903 Invention of Airplane