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Oct 12, 1492
The Discovery of America by Columbus
Christopher Columbus did not discover the Americas, but instead arrived and made it known to the Europeans. -
The settlement of Jamestown
English men picked Jamestown because the site was surrounded by water on 3 sides even though it was not yet an island.It was not inhabited with the Native population. The men were able to to tie there boats down to the shoreline. -
The French and Indian War
They both fought for their territory. -
The Boston Tea Party
It was a Colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
This was the first Revolutionary Battle at Lexington and Concord. British troops were sent to confiscate colonial weapons.They went up against angry untrained militia. -
The Declaration of Independence
Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. -
The Battle of Yorktown
French troops laid seige to the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia.Led by George Washington and French General Comte de Rochambeau, they began their final attack on October 14th, capturing two British defenses and leading to the surrender. -
The Constitutional Convention
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution came into effect in 1789 and has served as the basis of the United States Government ever since. -
The invention of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney created he cotton gin. It is a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by it speeding up the process of removing the seeds from cotton fiber. -
The Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts is consisted of four laws that has been passed by the federalist controlled Congress. This is an ACT for the punishment of crimes against the United States(Sedition ACT). -
The Louisiana Purchase
The United States purchased 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France. This purchase doubled the size of the young republic. "What was known as Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north." -
The War of 1812
In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. -
The Missouri Compromise
an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by Missouri late in 1819. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
Andrew Jackson’s Election
The United States presidential election of 1828 was the 11th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 31, to Tuesday, December 2, 1828. Featured a re-match between John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson won the plurality election college votes. -
The Trail of Tears
125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. White settlers wanted to grow cotton on the Indian's land, the federal government forced them to leave and the Indian's had to walk 1,000 miles to a special designated Indian place. This was a difficult and deadly journey, that's why it was called "The Trail of Tears." -
The invention of the telegraph
The telegraph was developed by Samuel Adams and other inventors. The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire and laid between stations. -
The Panic of 1837
This was a financial crisis in the United states. While unemployment went up, Profits, prices, and wages went down. -
The Mexican-American War
It was he first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. The Mexican president. who that time was James K. Polk, thought that the U.S had a "Manifest Destiny," which was to spread the continent across the Pacific Ocean. A border followed along Rio Grande and that started the fight, which then led to U.S. victories. After, Mexico had lost one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. -
The Compromise of 1850
A package of 5 separate bills passed by the U.S. Congress in September. It defused the 4 year political confrontation between the slaves and the free states based on the status of territories that were acquired during the Mexican-American war. -
The Firing on Fort Sumter
The American Civil War begins when Confederates fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. It was a source of tension between the Union and Confederacy for several months. For both sides, Sumter was a symbol of sovereignty. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
"Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862. It stipulated that if the Southern states did not cease their rebellion by January 1st, 1863, then Proclamation would go into effect." -
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished, and continues to prohibit, slavery, and, with limited exceptions, prohibits involuntary servitude. The 14th, which intended to protect the civil rights of former slaves and the 15th, which banned racial restrictions on voting. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
It occurred in April 1865 when Confederate general Robert E. Lee submitted to Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant, all but ending the American Civil War (1861–1865). -
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
Lincoln got shot with a 44 caliber in the back of the head. John Wilkes was the one who shot him. Lincoln's shooter shot him when he was at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. -
The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
John D. Rockefeller organized Standard Oil in Cleveland. The Standard Oil Trust controlled 90 percent of oil refining in the United States by 1879. -
The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane
In 1874 Alexander Graham Bell developed the idea for the telephone and successfully created and patented one two years later. By the end of 1880, Edison had produced a bulb that lasted 1500 hours. Thomas Edison had invented the electric light. The Wright Brothers, after carefully studying, Wilbur and Orville began their own scientific analysis of what was needed for flight, and began designing their own gliders. -
The Pullman and Homestead Strikes
The Pullman town, which was meant to solve the labor problem, ended up exacerbating existing tensions. Every department of the immense Carnegie steel works at Homestead was shut down, throwing about 3,800 men out of employment. -
The Spanish-American War
The Spanish-American War (1898) was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. The Spanish-American War (1898) was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States. in September 1901, after the assassination of William McKinley. -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
Johnson wanted to dismiss the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton. Stanton was the only member of Johnson's cabinet who supported the Radical Republicans' program for reconstruction. General Ulysses S. Grant took his place for Secretary. Ignoring Congress, Johnson formally dismissed Stanton on February 21, 1868.