American History By Lilly23! Period: 60,000 BCE to 1740 Pre-History 1300 Native Americans Crossed the Land Bridge Through Beringia. 1492 Christopher Reaches the Bahamas 1607 Jamestown 1620 Plymouth 1675 King Phillip's War 1765 Stamp Tax 1770 Boston Massacre 1773 Boston Tea Party 1774 1st Continental Congress 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord 1775 Revolutionary War 1776 Declaration of Independence 1787 United States Constitution Signed 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition 1820 Missouri Compromise 1831 Trail of Tears Period: 1846 to 1848 Mexican War 1849 Gold Rush Begins 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act Period: 1861 to 1865 American Civil War Period: 1862 to 1879 Homesteading the Plains Period: 1865 to 1877 Reconstruction Era Period: 1866 to 1886 Cattle Drives in Great Plains 1867 Alaska Purchased 1869 Suez Canal Opens 1869 First Transcontinental Railroad Period: 1870 to 1924 Massive Immigration to America 1873 Carnegie Builds Steel Mill Period: 1874 to 1881 Plains War 1876 First Telephone Conversation 1878 Edison Invents Electric Lightbulb Period: 1880 to 1890 Electricity For Cities 1883 The Panic of 1883 Period: 1883 to 1914 Jim Crow Laws Created 1890 Labor Unions Started Period: 1890 to 1919 Progressive Era 1898 Hawaii Becomes U.S Possesion 1898 Spanish-American War 1898 U.S Gains Control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and Other Pacific Islands 1900 United States Has Become a World Power 1901 Theodore Roosevelt Becomes President 1901 U.S. Takes over Panama Canal Construction 1903 Wright Brothers Make First Airplane Flight 1913 Henry Ford Builds Cars on Assembly Line 1914 U.S. Opens the Panama Canal Period: 1914 to 1918 World War I 1917 Russian Revolution Period: 1929 to 1941 The Great Depression Period: 1939 to 1945 World War II 1945 First Atomic Bomb Exploded 1946 Beginning of Cold War Period: 1950 to 1953 Korean War Period: 1950 to 1965 American Civil Rights Movement 1959 Cuban Revolution 1963 Assassination of President Kennedy Period: 1965 to 1973 Vietnam War 1989 Collapse of Communism in Europe 1991 End of the Cold War and Break Up of the Soviet Union 1992 Formation of the European Union 2001 Terrorists Attack American Landmarks Period: 2003 to 2011 Iraq War 2008 Election of President Barack Obama
