US History A Timeline

By ariahupwall
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Settlement of Jamestown

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    French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

  • The battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

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    Battle of Yorktown

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    Conventional Convention

  • Cotton Gin invention

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    Alien and Sedition acts

  • Louisiana purchase

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    War of 1812

  • Missouri compromise

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    The Andrew Jackson election

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    Trail of Tears

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    The panic of 1837

  • Invention of the telegraph

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    The Mexican-American war

  • Compromise of 1850

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    Firing on fort sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • 13th amendment passed

  • Surrender at appomattox Courthouse

  • 14th amendment passed

  • Andrew Johnson Impeachment

  • 15th amendment passed

  • The invention of the telephone

  • Electric light invention

  • Organization of the Standard Oil Trust

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    Homestead strike

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    Pullman strike

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    Spanish-American war

  • Theodore Roosevelt becoming president

  • The invention of airplanes