US History A Timeline - Austin Green

  • Oct 12, 1492

    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

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    French & Indian War

    French & Indian War
  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

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    Battle of Yorktown

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    The Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • Alien Act

  • Sedition Act

  • The Louisiana Purchase

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    The War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Invention of the Telegraph

  • The Panic of 1837

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    The Trail of Tears

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    Mexican-American War

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

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    Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • 13th Amendment

  • Andrew Johnson's impeachment

  • 14th Amendment

  • 15th amendment

  • Invention of the Telephone

  • Invention of electric light

  • Standard Oil Trust Organized

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman Strike

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    Spanish American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President

  • Invention of the airplane