American history timeline

By irie123456
  • Period: 60,000 BCE to 1400

    Prehistory

  • 50,000 BCE

    Migration out of Africa

  • 20,000 BCE

    Most of the ancestors of the Native Americans crossed the land bridge through Beringia into North America

  • 1215

    Magna Carta

  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus sets sail

  • 1519

    Cortés conquered the Aztec Empire

  • Jamestown founded

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    The Starving Time

  • Pilgrims land at Plymouth

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    20,000 Puritans sail for New England

  • Bloody Massacre

  • Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

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    American Revolutionary War

  • Declaration of Independence

  • John Hanson became the first US president with the Articles of Confederation

  • George Washington becomes president

  • The Louisiana Purchase

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    Lewis and Clark expedition

  • Slave trade to America becomes illegal

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    The War of 1812 where US defeats Britain once and for all.

  • Francic Scott Key writes "Star Spangled Banner" to celebrate the British defeat at Baltimore.

    Francic Scott Key writes "Star Spangled Banner" to celebrate the British defeat at Baltimore.

  • Sequoyah creates Cherokee alphabet

  • Jackson becomes president

  • Peter Cooper builds steam powered train

    Peter Cooper builds steam powered train

  • Indian Removal Act clears the way for sending Native Americans west of the Mississippi

  • David Walker died.

    he spoke to encourage blacks to fight for their freedom. because of this, he was murdered

  • Pioneers moved west

  • Martin Ban Buren becomes president

  • Frederick Douglas flees the South

  • Cherokees walk the Trail of Tears

  • US had three presidents this year

    Martin Ban Buren, William Henrey Harrison, John Tyler

  • People traveled west because of the depression

  • James K Polk became president

  • James Marshall found gold

  • Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree

  • Gold Rush

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    Labor unions started

  • Sojourner Truth made her speech "Ain't I a Woman?"

  • Civil War in Kansas

    Pro-slavery vs. Anti-slavery.

  • Abe Lincoln became president

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    American Civil War

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    Homesteading the Plains

  • Battle of Gettysburg

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    Reconstruction

  • Abraham Lincoln died.

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    Cattle drives in Great Plains

  • William Seward bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre

  • Alaska purchased

  • First transcontinental railroad

  • 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

  • Edison invents 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

  • Gold discovered in Alaska

  • Spanish-American War

  • U.S. gains control of Puerto Rico, Philippine Islands and other Pacific islands

  • Hawaii becomes U.S. possession

    Hawaii becomes U.S. possession

  • United States has become a world power

    United States has become a world power

  • U.S takes over Panama Canal construction

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • Wright brothers make first airplane flight

  • Henry Ford builds cars on assembly line

  • U.S. opens the Panama Canal

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    World War 1

  • Russian Revolution

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    World-wide Depression

  • Adolf Hitler rose to power

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    World War 2

  • Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Guadalcanal

  • Allies liberate france

  • First atomic bomb exploded

    First atomic bomb exploded

  • Beginning of Cold War

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    Korean War

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    American Civil Rights Movement

  • Cuban Revolution

    Cuban Revolution

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    Vietnam War

  • Terrorists successfully attack American landmarks

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    Iraq War

  • Election of President Barack Obama

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