US History Timeline By Butterfly363 1492 The Discovery of America by Columbus 1607 The Settlement of Jamestown 1754 The French and Indian War 1773 The Boston Tea Party 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord 1776 Signing of the Declaration of Indipendance 1781 The Battle of Yorktown 1787 The Constitutional Convention 1793 The Invention of the Cotton Gin 1798 The Alien and Sedition Acts 1803 The Louisiana Purchase 1812 The War of 1812 1820 The Missouri Compromise 1828 Andrew Jackson's Election 1832 The Invention of the Telegraph 1837 The Panic of 1837 1838 The Trail of Tears 1846 The Mexican-American War 1850 The Compromise of 1850 1861 The Firing on Fort Sumter 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation was Signed 1865 The Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincolns Assassination 1868 Andrew Johnsons Impeachment 1870 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments (1865, 1868, 1870) 1870 The Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1876 Invention of the Telephone 1879 Invention of the Electric Light 1892 The Pullman and Homestead Strikes 1898 The Spanish-American War 1901 Theadore Roosevelt Becomes President 1903 The Invention of the Airplane
