U.S.History Timeline

By emswartsy
  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

    Ended October 31,1763

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independance

  • The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • The Alien Act

  • The Sedation Act

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • Andrew Jacksons Election

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    The invention of the telegraph

    Developed throughout the 1830s and 1840s

  • The Panic of 1837

    The panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the US that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s
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    The Trail of Tears

    The trail of tears took place between 1838 and 1839

  • The Mexican American War

    Ended in 1848

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumer

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • The 13th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • The 14th Amendment

  • The 15th Amendment

  • Invention of the Telephone

  • Invention of Electric Light

  • The Orginasation of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Homestead Strike

  • The Pullman Strike

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    Spanish American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

  • Invention of the Airplane