Important Events in America Before 1877

By CaptKenzie
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Events In Order

  • Colombus Dicovered America
    Jan 1, 1492

    Colombus Dicovered America

  • Jan 1, 1501

    Amerigo Vespucci Explored America

    He was one the first to truly explore this new land, and claim that it was not, in fact, Asia.
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

  • The Beginnning of the Enlightenment

    The reason the Enlightenment is so important to U.S. history is because it was the time when we where just learning and understanding science.
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • The Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence

    This document gave us freedom from the tryanny of Old England.
  • The Battle of Saratoga

    The Battle of Saratoga

  • The U.S. Constitution

    The U.S. Constitution

    This gave us, as our own nation, rights that can be taken away from us without due process. As well as the right to vote, the right to own property, etc.
  • U.S. Banks

    U.S. Banks

  • Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin

  • Eli Whitney Invents New Musket Design

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    The Louisiana Purchase

    The Lousiana Purchase doubled the size of the U.S. and gave way to Westward expantion.
  • American Inventor Samuel Colt Invents the Colt Revolver

    American Inventor Samuel Colt Invents the Colt Revolver

    During the Civil War, Samuel Colt became a major supplier of handguns for the Union army.
  • Dread Scott Vs. Sanford

    Dread Scott Vs. Sanford

    The U.S. Supreme Court declared that all blacks, slaves as well as free, were not and could never become citizens of the United States.
  • South Carolina is the First to Suceed from the Union

    South Carolina is the First to Suceed from the Union

  • Civil War Offically Begins

  • The Emancapation Proclamation

    The Emancapation Proclamation

    The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

  • Civil War Ends

    Since the War ended, it force the South to reconcile with the North, and rebuild the even newer nation to ensure a war would never break out again.
  • Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

    Abraham Lincoln's Assassination

  • Ku Klux Klan Founded

    Ku Klux Klan Founded

    Started by Andrew Glass, the KKK was a Confederate terrorist organization who believed in white supremacy.