US History A Timeline

  • Period: 1492 to 1502

    Columbus' voyages

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus officially steps foot in America

  • 1493

    Columbus' second voyage

  • 1498

    Columbus' third voyage

  • 1502

    Columbus' last voyage

  • Jamestown Settlement

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    French and Indian War

  • Boston Tea Party

    Teas were thrown over-board
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

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    Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • Alien and Sedation Act

  • Louisiana Purchase

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    War of 1812

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson Election

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    Trail of Tears

  • Panic of 1837

    Banks in new york city ran out of gold and silver.
  • Telegraph Invention

    It was created in 1843, but the first ever message was sent on May 24, 1844
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    Mexican-American War

  • Compromise of 1850

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    Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclomation

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 13th Amendment Passed

  • Surrender at Appromattox Court House

  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • 14th Amendment Passed

  • Andrew Johnson Impeached

  • 15th Amendment Passed

  • Telephone Invented

  • First Electric Light Invented

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    Pullman and Homestead Strikes

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    Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Elected

  • First Airplane Invented