American Histories Timeline

  • 1400

    Prehistory

  • 1492

    Columbus reaches the Bahamas

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
  • Plymouth

    Plymouth
  • Stamp Tax

    Stamp Tax
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    King Phillip's War

  • The Boston Massacre

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party
  • 1st Continental Congress

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

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    Revolutionary War

  • Declaration of Independence

  • United States Constitution signed

    United States Constitution signed
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    Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
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    Trail of Tears

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    Mexican War

  • The Gold Rush Begins

    The Gold Rush Begins
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    Labor unions started

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

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    American Civil War

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    Homesteading the plains

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    Reconstruction

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    Cattle drives in Great Plains

  • Alaska purchased

    Alaska purchased
  • First transcontinental railroad

    First transcontinental railroad
  • Suez Canal opens

    Suez Canal opens
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    Massive immigration to America

  • Carnegie builds steel mill

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    Plains Wars

  • First telephone conversation-Alexander Graham Bell

    First telephone conversation-Alexander Graham Bell
  • Edison invents the electric light bulb

    Edison invents the electric light bulb
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    Electricity for cities

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    Jim Crow Laws Created

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    Progressive Era

  • The Panic of 1893

    The Panic of 1893
  • U.S gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific Islands

  • Hawaii becomes U.S. possession

  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War
  • United States has become a world power

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

    Theodore Roosevelt becomes President
  • U.S takes over Panama Canal construction

    U.S takes over Panama Canal construction
  • Wright brothers make first airplane flight

    Wright brothers make first airplane flight
  • Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line

    Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line
  • U.S. opens the Panama Canal

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    World War 1

  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution
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    World-wide Depression

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    World War 2

  • First atomic bomb exploded

    First atomic bomb exploded