US History Timeline

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  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus discovers America

  • Founding of Jamestown

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    French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence was Signed

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

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    War of 1812

    The war officially ended with the Treaty of Ghent on December 24, 1814, but the last battle associated with the war was on January 8, 1815, just over two weeks after the treaty was signed.

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's election

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    Trail of Tears

  • Telegraph was invented

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    Panic of 1837

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    Mexican-American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Organization of the Standard Oil Trust

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Lincoln's Assassination

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    13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • Patent of the Telephone

  • Patent of the Electric Lightbulb

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

  • Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

  • First Airplane Flight

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