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Oct 12, 1492
Discovery of America
By Christopher Columbus -
Settlement of Jamestown
In Virginia -
French and Indian War
Ended 1763 -
Boston Tea Party
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Battles of Lexington and Concord
Beginning of Revolutionary War -
Declaration of Independance
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Battle of Yorktown
Ended Oct 19, 1781 -
Constitutional Convention
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Invention of Cotton Gin
By Eli Whitney -
Alien and Sedition Acts
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Louisiana Purchase
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War of 1812
Ended Feb 18, 1815 -
Missouri Compromise
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Andrew Jackson's Election
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Trail of Tears
Ended 1877 -
Invention of Telegraph
By Samuel Morse etc. -
Panic of 1837
Ended 1843 -
Mexican-American War
Ended Feb 2, 1848 -
Compromise of 1850
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Firing on Fort Sumter
Beginning of Civil War -
Emancipation Proclamation
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Organization of Standard Oil Trust
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13th Amendment Passed
Civil Rights Amendment -
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
End of Civil War -
Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
By John Wilkes Booth -
14th Amendment Passed
Civil Rights Amendment -
Andrew Johnson Impeached
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15th Amendment Passed
Civil Rights Amendment -
Invention of Telephone
By Alexander Graham Bell -
Invention of Electric Light
By Thomas Edison etc. -
Homestead Strike
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Pullman Railroad Strike
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Spanish-American War
Ended Dec 10, 1898 -
Invention of Airplane
By Wilbur and Orville Wright -
Theodore Roosevelt Elected