US History Timeline By aginlv51 1492 The Discovery of America by Columbus 1607 Settlement of Jamestown 1763 The French and Indian war 1773 Boston tea party 1775 The Battle one Lexington and concord 1781 The battle of Yorktown 1787 the constitutional convention 1794 The invention of cotton gin 1798 the Alien and Sedition 1804 Louisiana Purchase 1815 the war of 1812 1819 The declaration on independence 1819 Missouri Compromise 1828 Andrew jacksons election 1830 The trail of tears 1840 the panic of 1837 1844 invention of the telegraph 1847 the Mexican-Amerincam war 1850 The compromise of 1850 1858 Theodore Roosevelt became president 1861 the Emancipation proclamation 1861 The firing of Fort Sumter 1865 surrender at Appomattox courthouse 1865 Honest Abes Assassination 1865 when was the 13th 14th and 15th amendments passed 1868 andrew johnson's impeachment 1870 the organization of standard oil trust 1879 the invention of electric light, telephone and airplanes 1892 the pullman and homestead strikes 1898 the Spanish-american war
