20 Events of the old age By burwin 1803 the Louisiana purchase 1850 Trail of Tears 1861 Battle of Fort Sumter 1862 battle of antietam 1862 Seven Days Battle 1863 emancipation proclamation 1863 Battle of Gettysburg 1863 Gettysburg address 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1865 civil war 1866 14th amendment 1868 President Andrew Johnson is impeached 1869 completion of the transcontinental railroad 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone 1892 Ida B. Wells crusades lynching 1898 USS Maine explodes and sinks 1901 Theodore Roosevelt becomes president 1908 William Howard Taft elected president 1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T 1912 Woodrow Wilson elected president
