US History Timeline- Williamsburg

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  • 1492

    Discovery of America by Columbus

  • Settlement of Jamestown

  • French and Indian War

    Start date

  • Boston Tea Party

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • War of 1812

    Start date

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Andrew Jackson's Election

  • Trail of Tears

  • Invention of the Telegraph

  • The Panic of 1837

    Start date

  • Mexican-American War

    Start date

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Firing on Fort Sumter

  • Emancipation Proclamation

  • Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse

  • Lincoln's Assassination

  • 13th Amendment

    Ratified

  • Andrew Johnson's Impeachment

  • 14th Amendments

    Ratified

  • Organization of Standard Oil Trust

  • 15th Amendment

    Ratified

  • Invention of telephone

  • Invention of electric lightbulb

  • Pullman and Homestead Strikes

  • Spanish-American War

    Start date

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes president

  • Invention of airplane