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Aug 3, 1492
The Dicovery of America by Columbus
Columbus led three ships; the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria To sail west until he reached Asia to find spices and gold, but instead he ended up in America. -
The Settlement of Jamestown
The first sucessful English settlement on the mainland of North America -
The Beginning of the French and Indian War
Also called the seven years war, when british powers fought for power -
The end if the French and Indian War
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The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
The Battle of Yorktown
The battle of Yorkton was the most important battle in the revolutionary war -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord was the kickoff to the American Revolutionary War. -
The Declaration of Independance
A document signed so state that the thirteen colonies were independant -
The Constitutional Convention
delegates from five states discussed possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation. -
The Invention of the Cotton GIn
Eli Whitney created the first modern mechanical cotton gin -
The Alien and Sedition acts
There were four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Lousiana purchase was a land deal between the United States and France -
The War of 1812
The war of 1812 was a military conflict fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies. -
The Missouri Compromise
An effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free. -
Andrew Jackson's Elecection
Democratic election if the united states lasting from October 31st to December 2nd -
The Panic of 1837
A financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. -
The Invention of the Telegraph
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morseand other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. -
The Trail of Tears
Part of Andrew Jacksons Indian removal policy. The Cherokee nation was forced from thier lands to Oklahoma. -
The Mexican American War
Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. -
The Compromise of 1850
A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States upon the death of William McKinley. -
The Firing on Fort Sumter
General P.G.T. Beauregard, in command of the Confederate forces around Charleston Harbor, opened fire on the Union garrison holding Fort Sumter. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
A document freeing slaves -
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
One of the last battles in the American Civil War -
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
President Ambraham Lincoln was assasinated -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
"For the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives impeached a sitting president, Democrat Andrew Johnson" -
The Invention of the electric light
The electric light, one of the everyday conveniences that most affects our lives, was not “invented” in the traditional sense in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison, although he could be said to have created the first commercially practical incandescent light. -
The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
John D. Rockefeller created Standard Oil Trust by trading stockholders' shares for trust certificates. -
The invention of the telephone
, Bell made this wax-disc recording of his voice in 1885. -
The Pullman and Homestead Strikes
Following the labor strikes, rallies, and boycotts of 1886 there was a second wave of labor activism that struck the working community in 1892 -
The Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
The invention of the airplane
Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane
