U.S. Government

  • Aug 3, 1492

    The Discovery of American by Christopher Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War 1754-1763

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention 1787

  • The invention of the cotton gin 1793

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts 1798

  • The invention of the electric light 1800

  • The Louisiana Purchase 1803

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise 1819

  • Andrew Jackson's Election 1828

  • The Panic of 1837 1837

  • The invention of the telegraph 1837

  • The Trail of Tears 1838 and 1839

  • The invention of the telephone 1844 and 1898

  • The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Organization of the Standard Oil Trust 1863

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • 13th, 14th, and 15th, Amendments 1865 and 1870

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • The Homestead Strike 1892

  • The Pullman Strike 1894

  • Theodor Roosevelt becomes President 1895

  • The Spanish-American War 1898

  • The invention of the airplane