US history a timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    the discover of America by Christopher Columbus

  • the settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian war

  • the Boston tea party

  • the battle of Lexington and concord

  • the declaration of independence

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    the battle of Yorktown

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    the constitutional convention

  • the invention of the cotton gin

  • the alien and sedition acts

  • the Louisiana purchase

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    the war of 1812

  • the Missouri compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's election

  • the trail of tears

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    the panic of 1837

  • the invention of the telegraph

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    the mexican-american war

  • the invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane

  • the compromise of 1850

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    the firing on fort Sumter

  • the emancipation proclamation

  • the organization of standard oil trust

  • 13th, 14th, 15th amendments

  • surrender at Appomattox courthouse

  • Abraham Lincolns assassination

  • Andrew Johnson impeachment

  • the pullman and homestead strikes

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    the spanish american war

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

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    US history timeline

    this is the history of the US from the discovery of by Columbus to the invention of the electric light, telephone, and the airplane