us history timeline

By bela milne
  • 1492

    the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

  • founding of Jamestown

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    The french and Indian war

  • The boston tea party

  • The declaration of independence

  • the battle of Lexington and concord

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    The battle of Yorktown

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    The constitutional convention

  • The Invention of the cotton gin

  • The alien and sedition acts

  • The Louisiana purchase

  • The invention of the electric light

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    The war of 1812

  • The Missouri comprise

  • Andrew Jackson's election

  • The trail of tears

  • The invention of the telegraph

  • The panic of 1837

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    The Mexican- American war

  • The compromise of 1850

  • The firing of fort Sumter

  • The emancipation proclamation

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    The 13th,14th,and 15th amendments

  • the surrender at Appomattox courthouse

  • The assassiation of Abraham Lincoln

  • The impeachment of Andrew jackson

  • The invention of the telephone

  • The organization of standard oil trust

  • The homestead strikes

  • The pullman strikes

  • The Spanish-American war

  • The invention of the airplane

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president