US History

By emmamonson
  • Oct 12, 1492

    The discovery of America by Columbus

  • The settlement of Jamestown

  • 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 Louisiana Purchase

  • The war of 1812

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's election

  • The trail of tears

  • The panic of 1837

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The Mexican-American war

  • The compromise of 1850

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The firing on Fort Sumter

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • 13th, 14th, 15th amendments

  • Abraham Lincoln's assassination

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • The Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • The Pullman and Homestead strikes

  • The Spanish-American war

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • The invention of the electric light, telephone, and airplane