US History A Timeline

By CoolCool1512
  • Aug 3, 1492

    Columbus Discovers America

  • Settlement of Jamestown

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    French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence Signed

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    Battle/Siege of Yorktown

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    Constitutional Convention

  • Cotton Gin Patent Granted

  • Alien Act Passed

  • Sedition Act Passed

  • Louisiana Purchase

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    War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson Elected President

  • Panic of 1837

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    Trail of Tears

  • Telegraph Invented

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    Mexican American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

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    Emancipation Proclamation

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

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  • 13th Amendment

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Lincoln's Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson Impeached

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th Amendment

  • Telephone Invented

  • Light Bulb Invented

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    Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

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    Spanish American War

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  • Airplane Invention

  • Theodore Roosevelt Elected

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