US History Timeline

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  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

    Columbus left Castile in August 1492 with three ships, and made landfall in the Americas on 12 October.
  • The Settlement of Jamestown

    The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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    The French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by Native American allies.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty
  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

    The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
  • The Declaration of Independence

    The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress
  • The Battle of Yorktown

    The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle
  • The Constitutional Convention

    The event was decide how America was going to be governed.
  • The invention of the cotton gin

    A machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber
  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

    Federalist-controlled Congress passed four laws, known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts.
  • The Louisiana Purchase

    The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803.
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    The War of 1812

    The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and its allies.
  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise was United States federal legislation that stopped northern attempts to forever prohibit slavery's expansion.
  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The Trail of Tears

    The Trail of Tears was part of a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government known as the Indian removal.
  • The Panic of 1837

    The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down; unemployment went up; and pessimism abounded.
  • The invention of the telegraph

    The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication.
  • The Mexican-American War

    The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848.
  • The Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion.
  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

    The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, during the Civil War.
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    13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

    The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War.
  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

    Standard Oil Co. was an American oil-producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870
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    The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

    Homestead Strike happened in Homestead, Pennsylvania. ... The workers from Carnegie mills went on strike because Andrew Carnegie, the head of the Carnegie Steel Company, refused to increase the wages.
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    The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

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