US History A Timeline By Toothless16 1486 Discovery of America by Columbus Period: Oct 12, 1492 to Aug 2, 1914 US History A Timeline 1606 Settlement of Jamestown 1754 French and Indian War 1771 Battle of Lexington and concord 1773 Boston Tea PArty 1773 Battle of Yortown 1774 Declaration of Independacne 1787 Constitutional Convention 1794 Invention of Cotton Gin 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts 1801 Louisiana Purchase 1802 Invention of electric light 1812 War of 1812 1820 Missouri Compromise 1822 Andrew Jackson's Election 1837 Panic of 1837 Period: 1846 to 1848 Mexican American War 1850 Compromise of 1850 1861 The Firing on Fort Sumter 1863 the emancipation proclomation 1865 13th Amendment 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincon's Assasination 1868 14th Amendment 1868 The Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1868 Andrew Jackson's Impeachment 1870 15th Amendment 1876 Invention of telephone 1892 The Pullman and Homestead Strikes 1898 The Spanish American War 1901 Theodore Roosevelt Became President 1903 Invention of airplane 1931 Trail of Tears 1932 Invention of the Telegraph