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Oct 12, 1492
The Discovery of America by Columbus
Explorer Christopher Columbus 'discovery of the new world' of the Americas in 1492. -
Period: Oct 12, 1492 to
US History A Timeline
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The Settlement of Jamestown
The Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
The French and Indian War
The "Seven Years War", a conflict primarily fought between Britian and France over New World territory. -
The Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party, in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord began a war that resulted in Britian losing American Colonies. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Decloration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nations people asserting their right to choose their own government. -
The Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Constitutional Convention
The point of The Constitutional Convention was to decide how America was going to be governed. -
The Invention of the Cotton Gin
Cotton Gin, a machine benefical for cleaning cotton of its seeds, invented in the United States by Eli Whitney in 1793. -
The Alien and Sedition Acts
A series of four controversial laws passed by the US Congress in 1798. -
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed over 530 million acres of teritory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million. -
The War of 1812
The War of 1812, where the United States took on one of the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britian. -
The Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise, measure worked out in 1820 between the North and the South and passed by the US Congress that adressed growing sectional tensions over the issue of slavery. -
Andrew Jackson’s Election
Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828, defeating incumbent Johnm Quincy Adams. -
The Trail of Tears
This tragic event is referred to as the Trail of Tears, in which over 10,000 Native Americans died during removal or soon upon arrival in Indian Territory. -
The Invention of the Telegraph
Developed in the 1830s by Samuel Morse and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. -
The Panic of 1837
The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that triggered the Great Depression that lasted until the mid-1840s. -
The Mexican American War
The Mexican War was fought between the US and Mexico, ending with the boundries of the US extending to the Pacific Ocean. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was made up of five bills that attempted to resolve disputes over slavery in new territories added to the wake of the Mexican-American War. -
The Firing on Fort Sumter
The Firing on Fort Sumter, the first opening engagement of the American Civil War, taken place at the entrance of the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteen Amendment brought about by the Civil War were crucial milestones assisted in the long process of ending slavery. -
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Amendments 13-15 are called the Reconstruction Amendments both because they were the first enacted right after the Civil War, and because all addressed questions related to the legal and political status of the African Americans. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Confederate General Robert E. Lee agreed to surrender his army of Northern Virginia, making a symbolic end to the Civil War. -
Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
John Wilkes Booth leaped from the presidents box at Ford's Theater after infamously shooting president Lincoln and stabbing Major Rathbone. -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
Becoming president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Johnson was impeached. And on March 13 his impeachment trial began in the Senate under the direction of US Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase. -
The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
Signed on January 2, 1882, the agreement welded seperate Standard Oil corporations of various states together by pooling the stock of all. -
The Homestead Strike
The Homestead Strike was a major pitched battle during The Homestead Strike between the Pinkerton Detective Agency and the striking steelworkers. The main issue that triggered the strike was retention of the sliding scale wages system. -
The Pullman Strike
Just six days after President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday, he ordered a regiment of U.S. Army regulars into Chicago to put down a strike at the Pullman Company, a manufacturer of railroad sleeping cars. A quarter million railroad workers across the country struck in support of the Pullman workers. Altogether, more than 14,000 heavily armed federal troops were called in to put down the railroad strike. -
The Spanish-American War
With the mysterious explosion of the USS Maine, many New York magazines and newspapers blamed Spain. United States then defeated Spain and became an empire. -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
Theodore Roosevelt unexpectedly became the 26th and youngest president of the United States in September 1901 - March 4th, 1909 after William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist.