U.S. history

By Owain
  • Oct 12, 1492

    America discovered by Columbus.

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • The French and Indian War

    1754–1763

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence
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  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

    May 25 to September 17, 1787

  • The Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

  • The invention of the telegraph

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    The Panic of 1837

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    The Trail of Tears

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    The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • 13th, Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • 14th Amendment

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 15th Amendment

  • The invention of the telephone

  • The invention of the electric light

  • The Homestead strike

  • The Pullman Strike

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    The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The Invention of the Airplane