U.S. History Timeline

By jshetka
  • 1492

    The first Discovery of America

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

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    The French and Indian War

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Deceleration of Independence is Signed by Congress

  • The Battle of Yorktown

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    The Constitutional Convention

  • The Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Louisiana Purchase

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    The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson is Elected

  • The Telegraph is Invented

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    The Panic of 1837

  • The Trail of Tears

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    The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

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    13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments get added to the Constitution

  • The Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln was Assassinated

  • Andrew Johnson gets Impeached

  • The Electric Light, the Telephone, and the Plane get invented

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Standard Oil Trust Organization

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts