History A timeline

  • 1492

    The discovery of America

  • The settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and indian war

  • The Boston tea party

  • The battle of Lexington and concord

  • The declaration of independence

  • The battle of yorktown

  • The constitutional convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The alien and sedition acts

  • The Louisiana purchase

  • the war of 1812

  • The Missouri compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's election

  • the panic of 1837

  • the invention of the telegraph

  • The trails of tears

  • The Mexican American war

  • The compromise of 1850

  • the firing on fort Sumter

  • The emancipation proclamation

  • Abraham's Lincoln's assassination

  • 13,14,15 amendments

  • surrender at Appomattox court house

  • Andrew Johnson's impeachment

  • The organization of standard oil trust

  • The Pullman and homestead strikes

  • light, plane, phone

  • The Spanish American war

  • Theodore Roosevelt presidency