US History A Timeline

By jameswhite123
  • 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

  • The Constitutional Convention

  • The invention of the cotton gin

  • The Alien and Sedition Acts

  • The invention of the electric light

  • The Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson’s Election

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    The Trail of Tears

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Panic of 1837

  • The Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • The Firing on Fort Sumter

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

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    13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

  • Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • the invention of the telephone

  • The Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the airplane

  • The invention of the Model T

  • The Zimmerman Telegram

  • The WWI Armistice

  • The 19th Amendment

  • Charles Lindbergh’s Flight

  • Black Thursday

  • Pearl Harbor

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    The New Deal

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

  • The Munich Pact

  • Hitler Invades Poland

  • D-Day

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    Hiroshima & Nagasaki

  • The formation of United Nations

  • The Long Telegram

  • The formation of NATO

  • Russians acquire the Atomic Bomb

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    The Korean War

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    Brown v Board of Education

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    The Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

  • JFK’s Assassination

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

  • The Watergate Break-ins

  • Nixon’s Resignation

  • The invention of the Internet

  • The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • The 9/11 Attacks

  • Covid-19 Pandemic

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    Covid-19 Pandemic