US History A Timline

By TheBadHistorian
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    The Discovery of America by Columbus

  • The Settlement of Jamestown

  • The French and Indian War

  • 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 Louisiana Purchase

  • The War of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • Panic of 1837

  • Mexican-American War

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • Battle of Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

  • Andrew Johnson Impeached

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • Invention of The Telephone

  • Invention of The Lightbulb

  • Pullman Railroad strike

  • The Homestead Strike

  • The Spanish-American War

  • Theodore Roosevelt Elected

  • Invention of The Airplane