History timeline

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus Discovery of America

  • Settlement of Jamestown

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    The French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson Election

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    The Panic of 1837

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    Trail of Tears

  • Invention of the Telegraph

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    The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

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    The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

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    Invention of Electric light, Telephone, and Airplane

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    The Pullman Homestead Strike

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    The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt became president

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    The Balkan Wars/ War of 1912