1800-1900 timeline

  • French Revolutionary War ends

  • Louisiana Purchase

    The United States buys 827,000 square miles of land for $15 million, which is now known as Louisiana.
  • War of 1812

    War caused by America wanting to expand their territories. As a result, they ended up taking on one of the largest naval power, Great Britain.
  • Trail of Tears

    Thousands of Cherokees and other Indians were marched to Oklahoma territory under the supervision of the U.S. army.
  • Texas became a state

    Texas joins the United States
  • Compromise of 1850

    Admitted California as a free state and also created the Fugitive Slave law
  • Civil War

    A series of battles fought between the Northern Union and the Southern Confederation.
  • Civil War ends

    The Civil War was ended in 1865 with the confederate surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse.
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.