US history A Timeline Assignment

By SaidiRichardson
  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

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    the french and indian war

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

  • The Battle of Yorktown

    Sep 28, 1781 – Oct 19, 1781

  • The Constitutional Convention

    May 25, 1787 – Sep 17, 1787

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The invention of the electric light,

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    Start date: 1803
    Purchase: April 30, 1803
    Cost: 15 million

  • War of 1812

    Jun 18, 1812 – Feb 18, 1815

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

    It was held from Friday, October 31 to Tuesday, December 2, 1828

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Trail of Tears

    1831 – 1877
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    The Panic of 1837

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    The Mexican-American War

    Apr 25, 1846 – Feb 2, 1848

  • The Compromise of 1850

    Originally published: September 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

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    13th 14th 15th amendments

    The Reconstruction Amendments are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War. The last time the Constitution had been amended was with the Twelfth Amendment more than 60 years earlier in 1804.

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • telaphone

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    The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

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    The Spanish-American War

    Apr 21, 1898 – Dec 10, 1898

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • airplane