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The Discovery of America by Columbus
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The Settlement of Jamestown
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The French and Indian War
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The French and Indian War ended with the treaty of paris.
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The Boston Tea Party
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord
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The Declaration of Independence was signed.
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The Battle of Yorktown -
The Constitutional Convention -
The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed
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The invention of the cotton gin
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The Louisiana Purchase
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The invention of the electric light is attributed to multiple inventors, with the first practical electric light being the carbon arc lamp, invented by Humphry Davy around 1805
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The War of 1812 began -
The Missouri Compromise
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Andrew Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States of America
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The Indian Removal Acts
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The telegraph was invented
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The Panic of 1837
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The Mexican-American War
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The Compromise of 1850
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At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It declared that all enslaved people in the Confederate states were to be freed.
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The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865. This amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
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Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
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resident Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865
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The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869, and ratified on February 3, 1870. The amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
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The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by Congress on June 13, 1866. It was ratified on July 9, 1868.
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The impeachment of Andrew Johnson for "high crimes and misdemeanors" was initiated by the United States House of Representatives on February 24, 1868. The alleged high crimes and misdemeanors were afterwards specified in eleven articles of impeachment adopted by the House on March 2 and 3, 1868.
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The invention of the telephone is credited to Alexander Graham Bell, who received a patent for the device on March 7, 1876. While Bell is widely recognized for this invention, it's worth noting that others, like Antonio Meucci, had also made early contributions to the technology.
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The Standard Oil Trust was organized in 1882. It was created by John D. Rockefeller and his associates to consolidate control over various Standard Oil companies and navigate legal restrictions on interstate business. This structure allowed them to manage a large number of companies under a single entity, effectively creating a monopoly in the oil industry.
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The Homestead Strike, which involved steelworkers at Carnegie Steel, began on June 30, 1892.
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The Pullman Strike, a nationwide railroad strike, started on May 11, 1894.
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The Spanish-American War took place in 1898, specifically from April to August. The conflict began with the U.S. declaration of war on Spain on April 25, 1898. Hostilities officially ceased on August 12, 1898, with the signing of the Protocol of Peace.
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Theodore Roosevelt became president on September 14, 1901. He took office following the assassination of President William McKinley, under whom he served as Vice President. Roosevelt then secured a full term in the 1904 election.
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The first successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight was achieved by the Wright brothers on December 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. They flew their aircraft, the Wright Flyer, for 12 seconds, covering 120 feet. They made three more flights that day, with the longest being 852 feet in 59 seconds.