history class timeline

  • Aug 3, 1492

    columbus discovers america

  • jamestown settled

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    french and indian war

  • boston tea party

  • battle of lexington and the concord

  • the declaration of independence is signed

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    battle of yorktown

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    constitutional convention

  • invention of the cotton gin

  • alien and sedition acts

  • louisiana purchase

  • war of 1812

  • missouri comprimise

  • andrew jackson is elected president

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    telegraph invented

  • the panic of 1837

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    the trail of tears

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    mexican american war

  • compromise of 1850

  • firing on fort sumter

  • emancipation proclomation

  • 13th 14th and 15th ammendments passed

  • surrender at appomattox

  • abraham lincoln assassinated

  • andrew johnson is impeached

  • organization of standard oil trust is formed

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    the light bulb, telephone, and airplane are invented

  • pullman and homestead strikes

  • spanish american war

  • theodore rosevelt is elected president