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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus Discovers America
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Settlement of Jamestown
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French and Indian War
British and American Colonists vs French Colonists and Native Americans in a Seven Year War -
Boston Tea Party
A group of American Colonists called the "Sons of Liberty" protest the taxation on tea by dumping British Tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons and are met by an American militia, who defeat the British. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is ratified and adopted by the Second Continental Congress -
Battle of Yorktown
Last major battle of the Revolutionary War, a decisive victory for the American Colonists -
Constitutional Convention
Founding Fathers meet together to write and edit the American Convention -
Cotton Gin Invented
by Eli Whitney -
Alien and Sedition Acts
Acts that made it easier to deport foreigners and made it harder for new immigrants to vote. -
1803
Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France -
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War of 1812
War between England and America and their respective allies -
Missouri Compromise
The twenty two states in the US were split evenly between slave states and free states -
Telegraph invented
by Samuel Morse -
Panic of 1837
Financial Crisis in the US, followed by a depression that lasted until the mid 1940's -
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Trail of Tears
Resulted from The Indian Removement Act of 1830, thousands of Native Americans being forced out of their homes and into "Indian Territory." -
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Mexican American War
War between Mexico and America following the Annexation of Texas -
Compromise of 1850
A series of resolutions in attempt to avert a crisis between the North and South States -
Firing on Fort Sumter
When the Confederate Army fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, starting the Civil War. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Presidential proclamation that freed all the slaves in the US, issued as an executive order by President Lincoln. -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Final Battle between the Confederate Army led by Robert E. Lee before they surrendered to the Union -
Assassination of Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth shoots and kills President Lincoln in the Ford Theatre -
13th Amendment
Formally Abolished Slavery -
Andrew Johnson's Impeachment
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14th Amendment
Granted citizenship to all people born in the US -
The Organization of Standard Oil Trust
Designed to allow John D. Rockefeller and other Standard Oil stockholders to get around state laws prohibiting one company from owning stock in another. -
15th Amendment
Grants African American men the right to vote -
Invention of Telephone
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Invention of Electric Light
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Homestead Strike
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Pullman Strike
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Spanish Amerian War
Following the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor and the intervention of American troops in the Cuban War of Independence -
Roosevelt became President
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Invention of the Airplane
By the Wright Brothers
