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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus Discovers America
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Settling of Jamestown
The settlers first landed in Virginia on May 13, 1607 -
French and Indian War begins
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French and Indian War ends
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Boston Tea Party
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Declaration of Independence
Ratified July 4, 1776 -
Battle of Yorktown begins
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Battle of Yorktown ends
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Constitutional Convention
May 25 - September 17, 1787 -
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
Patent in U.S. Eli Whitney -
Alien and Sedition Acts
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Louisiana Purchase
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War of 1812
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Missouri Compromise
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Andrew Jackson's Election
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Invention of the telegraph by Samuel morse
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Panic of 1837
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Trail of Tears
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Mexican-American War
From 1846-1848 -
The Compromise of 1850
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The Firing on Fort Sumter
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
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Abraham Lincoln's Assassination
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13th Amendment
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President Andrew Johnson Impeached
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14th Amendment
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15th Amedment
Ratified in 1870, proposed in 1869 -
Alexander Graham Bell obtains a patent for the telephone
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Invention of the commerciallized electric lightbulb by Thomas Alvin Edison
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Standard Oil Trust Organized
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Homestead Strike
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Pullman Strike
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The Spanish-American War
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
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Wright Brothers fly the first airplane