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Oct 12, 1492
The Discovery of America by Columbus
On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa María, the Pinta, and the Niña. On October 12, the expedition sighted land, probably Watling Island in the Bahamas, and went ashore the same day, claiming it for Spain. -
The Settlement of Jamestown
On May 13 of 1607, 104 English men and boys chose to settle Jamestown, Virginia. Jamestown became the first permanent settlement in North America. -
The French and Indian War
The French kept expanding in North America, and that was interfering with the development of some British colonies. (The Indians were allies of the French.) The British won. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was political protest. We (the Americans) were sick of the British controlling us and taxing everything. So we destroyed a whole ship of tea. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements in the American Revolutionary War between the U.S. colonies and the British. -
The Declaration of Independence
A declaration signed by fifty-six state delegates stating that the 13 colonies were no longer under the control of Britain. -
The Battle of Yorktown
This is the war that ended the American Revolutionary war. Washington defeated Cornwallis. It lasted from the 28th of September to the 19th of October 1781. -
The Constitutional Convention
This is where delegates from 5 states came together to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation. -
The invention of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney created a faster way of seeding cotton. The Cotton Gin really started the industrial revolution. It was patented on March 14th, 1794. -
The Alien and Sedition Acts
Aliens (foreigners) had to declare their intent to become a U.S. citizen 5 years before that could be granted. It also made it impossible for aliens from enemy countries to become a U.S. citizen at all. The first of these acts was signed on June 18th of 1798. These acts were passed under John Adams. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the French and the U.S. consisting of approximately 827,000 square miles of land. It was sold to America for $15 million. -
The War of 1812
In The War of 1812 the U.S. took on the greatest naval power in the world- the British. The War of 1812 was a military conflict that lasted from June 18, 1812, to February 18, 1815. -
The Missouri Compromise
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The invention of the telegraph
http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph
I'm not sure when it was pattented- sometime in the 1830's -
The Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson ordered thousands of Native Americans to walk thousands of miles to a designated land just for Indians. This began sometime in 1830. -
The Panic of 1837
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The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. Pessimism abounded during the time. Started escalating in 1837. -
The Mexican-American War
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The Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
The Firing on Fort Sumter
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The Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1804.html
Was created sometime in 1863. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
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Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
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Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
The U.S. House of Representatives votes 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine of which cite Johnson's removal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history. -
The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane
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The Pullman and Homestead Strikes
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The Spanish-American War
The Spanish-American War (1898) was a conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president