U.S. History A Timeline By 0ld_Scab 1492 Columbus Discovered America 1607 Jamestown got Settled Period: 1754 to 1763 French and Indian war 1773 Boston Tea Party 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord 1776 Declaration of Independence 1781 Battle of Yorktown 1787 Constitutional Convention 1793 Invention of the Cotton Gin 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts 1803 Louisiana Purchase Period: 1812 to 1815 War of 1812 1820 Missouri Compromise 1828 Andrew Jackson’s Election 1831 Trail of Tears 1837 Invention of the Telegraph 1837 Panic of 1837 Period: 1846 to 1848 Mexican-American War 1850 The Compromise of 1850 1861 Firing on Fort Sumter 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1865 13th Amendment 1865 Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse 1865 Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination 1868 Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment 1868 14th Amendment 1870 15th Amendment 1879 Telephone Invention 1879 Electric Light Invention 1882 The Organization of Standard Oil Trust 1892 The Homestead Strike 1894 The Pullman Strike 1898 The Spanish-American War 1901 Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President 1903 Airplane Invention