U.S. History

  • 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Invention of the electric light

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Invention of the Telegraph

  • Trail of Tears

  • Panic of 1837

  • Mexican-American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Court House

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

    Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • Civil War Amendments

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Invention of the Telephone

  • Pullman Strike

  • Homestead Strike

  • Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt became Presdident

  • INvention of the Airplane

  • Invention of the cotton gin